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Living with farms... Frank Lloyd Wrights "Broadacre city" paved the way for Los Angeles highway culture which has helped to wipe out open green space.

View from superblock farm with person walking to work...

Image and text from Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaus.

Capsule for humans to live in. An example of sustaining life in the minimum space possible.

This is a 3d sketch of a possible layout of large grazing areas for cattle. The circular design and the sloping green grazing area are designed to catch the sun.
The structural block at the back will hold services.

Click city farm logo for info on the mechanisms of a working farm in densely urban north London...
(Warning! 4mb pdf)

Click cow to for info on how much space beef animals need per day...

Click image to view pdf...

Vincente Guillard is an architect from Valencia.

This image is a sketch of the site and the proposal in Denia, a town on the Mediterranean coast. The Mayor of Denia asked Vincente the architect to replace the quarry with a fake mountain to cover a shopping centre inside it.

HOW TO MAKE A MOUNTAIN...
This project aims to artificially recreate something natural, The Mountain. Vincente's approach was to look at the actual geometric propperties of mountain rock. The rock gave the inpiration for the idea of creating a geometry of (hexagonal) tiles within which would contain a smaller geometry giving a rocky effect. each tile was the same but you could create an effect of rocky randomness by turning each new peice in one of six directions relative to the last...
A strict geometric pattern gives a random pattern by having multiple combinations. Unitising the overall structure allows you to control the final outcome as well as the possible variations without having to design each one separately.

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Refrence: http://www.guallart.com/01projects/deniaCulturalPark/default.htm