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Premiá de Dalt House / ALVMTR
Planet City: Using Imaginary Worlds as Sustainable Models to Tackle Climate Change
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Premiá de Dalt House / ALVMTR

Posted: 17 Jul 2022 02:00 AM PDT

architects: ALVMTR
Location: 08338 Premià de Dalt, Barcelona, Spain
Project Year: 2020
Photographs: JOSÉ MARÍA NICOLÁS PAREDES
Area: 140.0 m2

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Planet City: Using Imaginary Worlds as Sustainable Models to Tackle Climate Change

Posted: 17 Jul 2022 12:30 AM PDT

Planet City. Image Courtesy of Liam Young

Liam Young is a speculative architect, product designer, and director who operates in the spaces between design, fiction, and futures. Young specializes in designing environments for the film and television industry, harboring the belief that creating imaginary worlds grants us the ability to connect emotionally to the ideas and challenges of our future.

Following the centuries of colonization, globalization, and never-ending economic extraction and expansionism, humans have remade the world from the scale of the cell to the tectonic plate. Young suggests in a TED Talk, "What if we radically reversed this planetary sprawl? What if we, as humans, reached a global consensus to retreat from our vast network of cities and entangled supply chains into one hyper-dense metropolis housing the entirety of the earth's population?"

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Back to Basics House / Engel Architecten

Posted: 16 Jul 2022 11:00 PM PDT