Individual Project One Statement

In this project we consider four key components, future visions/ scenarios, sustainable futures, people/ life styles and architectural opportunities.

Looking at the problem through an evolutionary methodology, as in the world or humanities evolution over time the out comes to these key components became perceivable.

Future Visions and Scenario’s:

The future scenario that prevailed from the evolution of the world and humanity is one that was shaped by the input factors of a world that has suffered from a sever resource crisis, compounding factors sparking economic bust and a population plateau leading to worldwide war. It allowed for the emergence of an innovative individualistic society thrust into a rapid invention mode fuelled most recently by the world conflict.

Sustainable futures:

Seven ‘species’, technology, the built environment, agriculture, education, transport, politics/policies and society, have evolved over time and led to various divergent outcomes all playing out in the natural environment. What emerged from the advances of these ‘species’ was the possibilities of an innovative society, one that is forever resourceful in finding solutions to the issues it may face.

People and Lifestyles:

Immediacy is what the people of the future demand, they want products that suit them perfectly and as such rapid prototyping and customisation have become the prevalent form of production. However this is not the end of the story, due to the resource crisis attitudes have changed over time and now society demands closed loop solutions and due to the additional expenses of the fly in fly out mining operations occurring in the terraformed regions of the Moon and mars society chooses to limit the use of these resources.

Shaping the world around them, people created spaces that previously were non-existent, with new personal transport devices leading to the disuse and repurposing of the ‘dinosaur’ transport systems of the early 20^th century. 

Architectural possibilities:

Society changed, the city changed, and the world shifted under their feet. Building in the future are repurposed and retrofitted creating a prevailing trend in parasitical architecture focusing on creative and purposeful use of space to facilitate the increased population.

To cater for societal attitude changes, local production and the death of traditional shopping trends meant shopping centres became customisation hubs, designing, manufacturing and sale-ing the goods people require then and there.  

The architectural opportunities of the future see a rise in productive vertical farming and localised manufacturing making the city the epicentre of local production facilitating the individualistic lifestyles of modern society.