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fighting for survival

Part 2 Project 2006
John Boeteng, Lian Kaczykowski
Elizavet Avramidou, Francisco da Silva
Daniel May, Neil Weston
 University of Greenwich | UK
Quite simply the world is in Crisis.
Our way of life is not sustainable!
We must fight for survival!
This fight cannot be fought alone.
We must conquer our egos, develop a team ethic, adopt a holistic approach to all design, determine and celebrate what values we share.
We, Atelier 12, attempt here to articulate a battle plan, a series of ground rules from which to fight together to plan and build a sustainable future.

Vasilieios Kiousis, Neil Keating, Hatice Cagiran, Christos Soubasis, Elena Antonopoulou,
Eva Vrachnou, John Boateng, Eleni Stellaki, Darren Stoneman, Elizavet Avramidou,
Neil Weston, Mathilde Bourgeois-Ducournau, Francisco da Silva, James Kay, Daniel May, Hannah Chalmers-Stevens, Lian Kaczykowski.


The parasitic, greedy and thirsty demand for food, water, energy and consumer goods has profoundly altered our relationships with our fragile planet and its eco systems.
We need new sustainable cities with new infrastructures sited strategically to benefit from renewable energy sources, fresh water supplies, and fertile land planned with a fundamental objective of ensuring the survival of the human occupation of planet earth. These cities promise a new beginning, a chance to correct our mistakes, utilise our ingenuity to build a sustainable future world.
Fighting alone we are doomed. Together we stand a chance.


2006
Food for thought! Early atelier excercise in team work, planning and measuring spatial enclosure, detetermining routes and places whilst debating our unsustainable lifestyles. 1:200 City model made out of unhealthy food.
Taming tidal surge, urban sprawl, pollution and unemployment! Prefabrication to individual specification in regenerated docks. City on the river edge, Shellhaven, London. England.
City of walls. City of Tulips. Everone has a view. Everyone has a garden. A new University and farmers market dominate the Intersecting gallerias on the edge of park sea dock and lake. Rotterdam, Holland.
A place to play, a place to grow. Threatened by rising sea levels and falling demand the dutch horizontal flower farms are brought together, flipped vertical into rotating hydroponic tulip walls which double as wind farm and floodlights for the park.
Water towers, roof top plantations and vertical allottments. The steel and timber superstructure follows Vitruvius, but captures the spirit of the favela by encouraging individual expression in the prefabricated dwellings. Near Rio, Brazil.
Floriade city. Orchards, meadows, woods and coppice fields interlaced with irrigation canals form the new city fabric where recreation is a way of life and Rooftop greenhouses double as translucent shelters for playful pursuits. Holland.
All species live off the land in a harmonious coexistence. The city gardeners, florists, farmers and chefs work and manage the land. There are no police here! Holland.
Italian reclamation. Faculty of Horticulture, farmers market and biomass power station coexist within and around the abandoned shells of the industrial past, now the landmarks of a new city. Naples. Italy.
Turkish delight! Family life revolves around the sofa, the courtyard, the mosque and the farm. The dispersed university and public buildings are stitched together by the cool shaded spaces of the bazaar and boulevard. Turkey.
The well is the focus of the farm yards enclosed by clusters of 8 farm houses. The city sofa is enclosed by latticed folding and sliding timber screens providing maximum flexibility of spatial division and climatic control. Turkey.
Shellfish farms in Sheerness. The city neighbourhoods are arranged around communal allotments. Canals dissect and serve the city and its hinterland. Farmers, fishermen and market gardeners mingle with Ship builders, students and sheep! Isle of Sheppey.
City over the river, freeing up the banks for farming, forests and short rotation coppice. The 4 wedged superstructures provide infinite spatial opportunities whilst the spaces between provide a 3 dimensional public realm. London
A cluster of Bastides in France around abandoned quarry lakes. Fish farming and vertical vineyards in the high street, Greece, and floating steel barges In Venice, lashed together to create an intricate network of canals, docks, passages and squares.
Dream homes! A forest of vertical structural and servicing masts provide the inhabitants with maximum potential for individual expression, growth, extension and adaption. Residents purchase a volume of space 33% of which must be left open. Greece.
Production and distribution are celebrated and elevated to a rooftop superstructure, creating a horizontal organic skin above the city. Beneath this kinetic machine the inhabitants enjoy the preparation and consumption in relative peace. Spain.
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