chapter 1: we're far from home.

ARCHINECT FEATURE

Using an illustrated novel, this proposal presents Broadacre City in space. It amplifies, exaggerates, and sets up a dialogue with some of the inherent assumptions in Frank Lloyd Wright’s project. Broadacre City implies that spaceand energy are infinite variables as citizens spread across America. My project confronts the situation when the earth is no longer inhabitable and humanity is situated in a finite city with limited resource and population. It borrows Charles Fourier’s phalanstery as the basis to a new order where talent and passion determines the maximization of energy in an enclosed city. Citizen’s struggle to feel at home is calmed by a constant feeding of constructed nostalgia.

sleeping patterns, favourite memories of home: what if it was all just a dream?.

"stranger" wakes up, finding himself curiously afloat, disoriented.

who are you? where am i?

plan, section, and a brief history of the mobile city.

urban strategy.

the dwelling unit is the only private space in a citizen's lifetime.

the plug-in motherboard. the floating cows.

we have kept our end of the earth calender, but tell us, stranger... are people still kill each other?

public display of passions: i have a wife, a kid, a mortgage! let me go home!

building.

good night, stranger...

my name is bob!

the 1:1 model of the dwelling unit.

against the low clouds.

a live scale figure.