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Quiz 4

**What are the concepts of the Bionic Tower and Little Cities Projects? **

The Bionic tower has the idea of vertical space but in a organic form inspired by models of nature The real social compromise consists on developing an innovative model of vertical construction that unifies in a new philosophy of life the revolutionary technological concepts which are able to surpass the frontier of 500 meters high. The concept of this tower is bring together a big number of people in the shortest possible horizontal space

The little cities propose the use of horizontal circulation, and an approachable, urban porosity that welcomes visitors and users. The concept of Little Cities is to develop large-scale urban spaces that function as integrated elements to give solutions to overpopulation. That is why it is called "micro urbanism".

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**What are the architectural /urban planning principles of these projects? **

They are models of urban bio-ecological structures. They are based on principles of flexibility and fitness of biological structures. Also they have a common principle, to solve the over population and approach ground distributing them in different ways.

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**How are these projects similar / different? ** **They are similar because both are made to improve and preserve the environment ** by using ecological models combined with the technology and advanced resources. They have a specific type of circulation. An also both seek different solutions to overpopulation. However, The big difference between these two projects is that Bionic Tower model is made in a vertical way and the Little cities are based in a horizontal design and circulation. The bionic tower seeks to reduce the size of cities, while the little cities try to include its own structure and natural public spaces of cities, maintaining a pedestrian scale media type="custom" key="7793417"

**Are there actual examples of these projects? If so, mention them ** About little cities, there are projects from Steven Holl

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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">There are some projects that have the same goal of bionic towers, however they are not built yet.

== · **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">X-Seed 4000, Tokyo ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">Although it is only an architectural dream, it’s cool. Created and developed by Peter Neville, and designed by Taisei Corporation, the 800 floors building would be 4 kilometers high and 6 kilometers wide, able to fit 500.000 to 1.000.000 people. == ==<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 10pt 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> ==

== · **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">Shimizu TRY 2004 Mega-City Pyramid, Shimizu ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">Shimizu TRY mega-City Pyramid would be the largest man-made structure in world’s history; seven hundred thirty meters high. Designed to accommodate 750.000 housand people, or 1/16 of Tokyo’s population. This building would help solving the problem of lack in space in Tokyo == ==<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 10pt 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> ==

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**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Explain the vertical and horizontal circulation for one of these projects ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 12.7pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The building would be zoned into residential, commercial and leisure areas. 50 km² will be given over to some 240,000 two hundred and forty thousand housing units, enough for 750,000 seven hundred and fifty thousand people. Each building would have its own energy resources (sun and wind). 24 km² will be assigned to offices and commercial facilities intended to employ 800,000 people. The remaining 14 km² would be used for research and leisure purposes. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">There would be no car in the city. Transportation would through personal <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Rapid transit pods, a computer driven vehicle that could travel throughout the hollow interconnecting trusses. media type="custom" key="7793477" **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What do you think of these projects? ** <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The purpose that has the bionic tower is to offer a solution to the overpopulation. The horizontal space is exhausted, and we must use the vertical space, so it's a good strategy. <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> In the case of Venezuela, with this kind of projects, we would avoid the invasions of the mountains, which are the lungs of the city. <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Also centralizes the use of dwellings and administratively it is easier to control

<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Little cities should be used to be "sleeping cities" away from the central city. This would prevent vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> However, to unite humans with nature is one of the principles of the architect. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The best building will be one that meets both requirements, a solution to overpopulation and inclusion of people with nature

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