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

Bionic Tower

The Bionic Tower is a project that focuses on a urbanis and architectural bio.ecological model which mainly focuses on minimizing the environmental impact of urban areas by occupying large tracts of land, compacting everything into a vertical solid containing a set of connections for people that residing in it turn and run as an integrating element of economic development and new cities suffering population.

Little Cities Projects

The Little Cities Projects are an integrated system of structures that projects Steven Holl to build in Japanese cities that currently suffer massive overcrowding, and It is estimated that the same increase. Says that the measure is being taken now to soften the effect is the construction of mega blocks of buildings with commercial and business at lower levels without services and urban spaces. As plans to build a three mega structures containing all the necessary services to sustain a city in terms of equipment and a large green area that is located as a network of public spaces under buildings. In essence, these structures are cities within cities.

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

Bionic Tower

The principle of this project is the beauty of itself, creating a building of great majesty to function as a city landmark and is based on a strong ecological principle, a system that achieves supply part of its energy needs and avoid intervening green spaces and recreational areas of the city. Systems containing communities who live within it.

Little Cities Projects

This project focuses on solving the social problem of overpopulated cities, the harmoniously integrated use of urban systems and solve a whole system of connections that integrate these applications and to facilitate the dynamic between them.

How are these projects similar / different?

The similarity of these projects is that they share the idea of compacting a number of applications in large-sized structures, the difference is the focus, as the Bionic Tower focuses on preserving the environment and the Little Cities Projects focuses on creating centers vertical villages that depend on the level of services themselves. Are there actual examples of these projects? If so, mention them.

At present there is no structure that mimics the huge size, containing many urban variables, or that seeks to integrate all the services and projects.

What do you think of these projects?

I think these projects seek to integrate the dynamics and uses of existing urban systems, but incorrectly. It is true that our home is concrete and often distance themselves from the outside, that there are mobility problems in our city and that pollution is killing us. These congested areas to take these new urban trends will respond the same way as cities to buy a new system of expressways, alleviate vehicular traffic for a period of time, but after this congestion will return, and the problem will be solved only by time.

 The ground floor is to live it and enjoy it, to integrate a system of urban spaces and built with making necessary changes in the fields and thus achieve space travel. Where the population density and where urban facilities become necessary, take the benefits and landscapes of our environment, do not lock ourselves into a large element of concrete with artificial space systems and consumerism arrogant.

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