VECTORIAL HABITAT PROTOTYPE IN LIBERLAND
Free Republic of Liberland, 2016
Location
Serbian-Croatian Border, Europe
Promoter
Free Republic of Liberland
Result
Finalist Design – International Design Competition
Year
2016
Design Team
Sergio Bianchi with Chiara Pellegrin, Simone Fracasso, Simone Russo, Franco Monti, Valeria Menculini, Roberto Ruggeri, Valeria Chiozzi
Nowadays cities consume 80% of global energy and are responsible for 75% of carbon dioxide emissions. Global warming is a serious issue and man is more and more aware of his responsibilities. Planning a new city is a very important commitment. We as architects and men make choices that concern the future of our species as well as the future of our planet.
Any effort should be made to offer a free environment for all species to prosper and progress in the wonderful flow of life that we have the extreme luck to be part of. So this is why
we want our new city to float above the ground and at the same time to be dense as the brains cells. A place of connections and development. A place from where to look at a free world.
Differently from what we are used to think, verticality is not the only solution when the matter regards a very dense city. We have to re-interpretate the concept of vertical, not limited to skyscrapers, but developed on a new model of vectorial city with completely different density standards, a “light landscraper”.
The relationship with the natural environment when we design tomorrow’s cities should always take into consideration the huge respect that nature deserves. The soil preservation should be a priority,
that’s why we chose to have a light impact on the ground, keeping the land as wild as we could.
All cities looking for symbiosis with Nature should aspire to a car-free environment. This means the development of a unified infrastructural system of public transport that gives the opportunity to move all around the city. Having a light impact on the surrounding environment means to have a structure that doesn’t block the view and allows the earh to breathe.
A vector habitat appears to be the ideal formal choice for the city.
competition plans