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Utopian Sea Cities of The Future | Assembled by Robots?

January 6, 2010 by Dan

Can you imagine a post-apocalyptic world populated with prefabricated buildings? Assembled on land from “memory metal” that can pop into shape when carried out to deep-ocean building sites. Frankly, it is not that far-fetched in this day and age – except that the architect behind these dreams is now 92 years old …

Utopian Prefabricated Architecture

Utopian Prefabricated Architecture

Can live off the grid in sustainably-powered, self-sufficient homes, sea-steading … sounds like something perfectly suited as a response to emerging environmental issues. What were once the implausible Utopian ideals of a young architecture student have evolved into the Venus Project, which seeks to address urban design and home-building issues on an ever-more-populated planet and in a changing global climate.

Sea Cities of The Future

Sea Cities of The Future

A lot of what these oceanic future cities entail is not as technologically complex as it would have sounded to an early 20th-Century audience. “Homes could be prefabricated of a new type of pre-stressed, reinforced concrete with a flexible ceramic external coating that would be relatively maintenance free, fireproof, and impervious to the weather. Their thin shell construction can be mass-produced in a matter of hours. With this type of construction, there would be minimal damage from earthquakes and hurricanes.”

Sea Cities

Sea Cities

Although the Venus Project goes beyond design – it contains a vision for a cleaner world of peace, prosperity and unity, without even  a monetary system as we know it. So is this kind of perfect-world thinking out of sync with the realism (or pessimism) of today? Perhaps so, or maybe we are just a little too jaded. Sometimes it is worth taking a step back and looking at the larger picture even if it seems impossible – designing without boundaries for a moment in anticipation of a new world that is never fully built… perhaps “only in dreams” as Kate Earl would say.

Filed Under: Utopia Tagged With: Architecture, Future, robots, sea cities, Venus Project

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Dan Fargo,the editor-in-chief of Archtopia, an online magazine dedicated to architects and designers.

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