41. Broadacre city frank lloyd wright A NEW FREEDOM FOR LIVING IN AMERICA 1. An acre of ground minimum for the individual 2. Boadacre City makes no changes in existing system of land surveys 3. Has a single seat of government for each county 4. Administration by radio and flight 5. Architectural features determined by the character and topography of region 6. No major and minor axis Plot - 2 miles square units of division One acre – 165 x 264 feet Four sector plan Sector a – sector b – sector c – sector d
42. No private ownership of public needs No land lord and tenant No ‘housing’. No subsistance homesteads No traffic problem. No back and forth haul No railroads. No street cars No grade crossings No poles. No wires in sight No ditches alongside roads No headlights. No light fixtures No glaring cement roads or walks No tall buildings except as isolated in parks No slums. No scum No public ownership of private needs
43. THE PLAN
44. MESA CITY Organic Architecture PAOLO SOLERI 1960 A QUEST FOR AN ENVIRONMENT IN HARMONY WITH MAN 1. Fragmented attempts to introduce corposity into the urban morphology, a phenomenon of the arcological concept 2. A preoccupation of the ecological aspect of every phenomenon on this planet, including the human phenomenon 3. The unequivocally stated conviction that the city is ultimately the most relevant aesthetic phenomenon on this earth and, consequently, that the characteristic genesis of the city is an act of creation, through the paths of discovery and invention PROJECT MESA CITY – regional development in west America The land is internationalized under a world government authority Thus the sheltering of man is based on his worth, not on his clan
45. THE PLAN 1. A City for about 2000,000 2. Towns and villages of rural character, producing and processing foodstuffs and Their derivatives 3. Industrial complexes downstream of water reservoirs 4. Special structures intended as multipurpose social facilities, living and working. Their morphology is such as to capture and make use of cosmic energy – radiation, Winds, water, tides 5. A linear city developing along a man-made waterway 6. A connective network of roads, railroads and bridges 7. An ecological organization of nature within the new balance demanded by large Social aggregates Area – 10km x 35km Man made park – 150m to 200m wide and 15km long with dikes and lakes Main elements – man-made park, theological complex, a library-museum 34 villages of about 3000 people each Cluster of 5 villages around civic and shopping Each village – on a ground 1000m in dia with 200m-400m dia garden in center Farming ground outside – 200m – 400m for orchards and vegetables High density housing on both sides of the central man-made park 3 towers 1000m high at the south end – one for transit population, one for people Connected with learning complex and one is residence of the govt and its employees