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Hiroshi Hara, 500x500x500m, A New Type of Residential Cube for 100,000 People (1992)

July 22, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Hiroshi Hara‘s “Multilayered Theory of the City” is put into practice through this model for an utopian metropolis.

A three-dimensional lattice is used to represent the “burst” of the city, that is, its capacity for self-transformation, self-destruction and “repair” that is realized through the accumulation of memories of its transformation.
His model for a 500 cubic meters unit is a representation of the future possibilities of city living, and consists of a metal frame and an acrylic skin emitting light to signify the bursting and reparing of the city.

Eleven panels depict the urban evolution from the year 2001 through 2101.

Via: Arqueologia del Futuro

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