Mari Fujita and Matthew Soules of the University of British Columbia School of Architecture have co-created what they call EcoMetropolitanism or EcoMet for short. It's a conceptual framework for transforming the modern city into a literal urban jungle. Read an article about the concept in TheTyee and view a slidehow illustrating their seven prescriptions.
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Outside of the concept (which i found interesting) i was particularly struck by the quality/style of imagery used to articulate the vision.
After years of assault by render i found the Archigram(ish) Pop art (60s) cutout style of the images really powerful.
Anyone else?
hmmm ...
If simplistic.
Perhaps, refreshin is a better word?
yawn...
a half-baked student project retreading this subject that somehow got press. They seem to ignore quite a bit of horticulture and ecology in their attempt.
I'm amused by the boldness of the inclusion of a Thom of Finland homo-erotic drawing onpage 3. few architecture students are that bold - but this distracts from the attempt to re-wild urban places.
I agree ... images are cool.
treekiller ... you reveal your ignorance by not knowing where the homo-erotic image is from.
It's a rework of one of the most famous images of 20th C. architecture.
Can you guess??????
i don't get the busyness of farming in a minimal apartment loft space.naive at its best.
yawnx10
stop beating a dead horse
interesting concepts - however, I know there are other schools and individuals that have doing almost identical, and much more in-depth project based work, for several years now.
reminds me of this:
http://citesauvage.blogspot.com/
the renderings look like most of the student work I've been seeing for the past several years... to me it looks like a student who just learned how to use photoshop and had maybe a couple hours to throw a rendering together. I personally like the simplicity/amateurishness and vibrance of these kinds of renderings... but if you've been on as many studio reviews as I have over the past few years - they just look like renderings from a student with an average drawing ability.
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