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It looks like it came straight out of a eighties post-apocolyptic film. Italian architect Paolo Soleri developed Arcosanti as an ecological design, with complex organic forms that integrate multiple systems of structure, circulation, and so forth.The experimental urban town lies 70 miles north north of Phoenix and will house 5,000 people. Natural heating/cooling and solar strategies lesson the environmental impact, and the urban structures are compact, allowing the natural countryside to sprawl.
Begun in the 1970’s, only 5% of the dwelling is complete and less than 100 people reside there. |
(CodyR– flickr/creative commons license)
(CodyR– flickr/creative commons license)
(a rancid amoeba– flickr/creative commons license)
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(sheldonschwartz– flickr/creative commons license)
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(featured image by dpape, flickr/creative commons)
