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Floating / Flying City
hi i am in currently in my final year and working on my final thesis idea about floating/flying cities. More in the lines of up in the sky cities.
The architectural problem that I want to address is that the land to build upon will inevitably become scarce and limited, which can be found in dense cities currently. I will address this problem by vertically shifting the ground plane and detaching what is grounded. Like Le Corbusier’s quote, my interest is to develop a modern city that rests on a whole new axis, and in doing so, to address the issue of founding a habitat, not confined by the restrictions of land.
i am searching for studies, theories, and other stuff that will help me with my thesis idea. i have done some research and have found very few.
if anyone can help it will be extremely helpful and great.
This is very similar to my own graduate thesis although minus the whole floating part. Look into Yona Friedman's spatial cities, specifically how he extends mid 1960s' Paris urban density across Europe.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
SOILED is doing an issue on Cloudscrapers so maybe that will come in handy when it's issued (http://soiledzine.org/).
Otherwise Superstudio has the "Spaceship City" and your research wouldn't be complete without analyzing the spacio-economics of Waterworld.
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