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Please e-mail or fax your responses
to the questionnaires and your opinions and proposals to us. Make
sure to include the number (1 to 8) of the questionnaire to which
you are referring. [Finished]
e-mail address: utopia@ntticc.or.jp
FAX : +81-3-5353-0929
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#1: (related page :The
History of Haishi-The Mirage City Project)
In its physical essence, Haishi the Mirage City Project proposes the
construction of an artificial island to house facilities for international
exchange: cultural, academic, business and convention centers, and
hotels and residences. What associations come to mind when you consider
the word "island"? For instance, Venice, the "floating
city," has been our point of reference until this stage of Haishi's
development. And "island" has long been related to the idea
of Utopia. Why "island"? Please let us know your thoughts.
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#2: (related page ::The
Geology of the Site
Movements to assemble the regions and peoples in Asia are finally
gaining momentum, as they have in Europe. Haishi is strategically
located at the heart of the Asian communities. We are planning convention
facilities at the center of the island in the prospect that representatives
from Asian nations will gather together in Haishi. Please discuss
this project from a global viewpoint.
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#3: (related page ::The
Plan proposed at the Venice Architectural Biennial
In the plan, Prototype, the central area is dedicated to convention
facilities, cultural and academic activities, and business, while
the surrounding areas that expand toward the ocean are reserved for
mixed-use development including residential, commercial and business.
This general zoning is provisional and can be rearranged. We would
like to know your opinions and proposals concerning transformations
to the plan, i.e., adding new facilities, making partial changes,
replacements, transferences, enlargements, contractions, and so on.
If possible, download the white plan, draw your transformations on
it, and send a concrete proposal back to us.
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#4: (related page : The
Plan of the Artificial Island)
Living and working sectors on the island are intermixed. All types
of facilitiesハвesidences, laboratories, offices, and storesハ?re arranged
in relatively low-rise, courtyard-style buildings. The ring-structured
complexes are randomly placed, and the vital pipelinesハвoads, canals,
electricity, gas, tap water, and communication wiresハжeave through
them. Fossil-fuel powered cars are shut out at the gates of the island
to be exchanged for boats, electric cars, bicycles, and walking. Please
let us know your thoughts on how things should be organized on the
island. Download the white plan, draw your plan on top, and return
it to us. The opinions and proposals we receive will be publicized
at the Forum and simultaneously translated into architectural language
and incorporated into the "Internet" model.
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#5: (related page :Internet)
Please let us know your opinions concerning Utopian cities, the concept
and method of inter-ness, the "planning" of a city without
a master plan, the planning process in which Anyone participates,
and Utopia as an open system. We hope that discussions on Utopia will
be activated in the wider contexts of politics, economics, and culture,
beyond the level of physical planning.
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#6: (related page :Left
panel of the diptych, "Six Songs for the Venice Biennial")
On the left panel we see the Utopian island of Sir Thomas Moore scaled
in proportion to Venice, the geomancy of feng-shui represented by
nin-mai (the dragon vein), and the total plan of Haishi superimposed
upon both schemes. It expresses the idea that a revolution of human
intercourse in the broad sense, including the information network,
requires the reconstruction of architecture and urbanism. In what
aspects do you think that the radical advances in the information
and communication systems affect the physical transformation of architecture?
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#7: (related page :Right
panel of the diptych, "Six Songs for the Venice Biennial")
The right panel describes the process through which new architectural
types are produced as a result of transformations from traditional
Chinese structures such as ke-jia (a circular housing complex for
farmers), si-he-yuan (Beijing-style traditional urban housing), tian-tan
(towers to worship heaven), and zi-jin-cheng (the Forbidden City).
We would like to ask for your suggestions for procedures or algorithms
to spark the transformations, and a drawing of the architectural type
you created using your transformational method.
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#8: (related page: A
Photograph of the model)
Traditionally, the planning of the infrastructureハвoads, energy supply
lines, communication networks and so onハ?as always preceded that of
architectural types that are built on top. Here, however, the hierarchy
is reversed. The design of architectural types and their arrangement
precedes that of infrastructural networks, which, rather, weave through
the architecture and grow spontaneously. In real cities, the life
cycle of the infrastructure is often shorter than that of the architectural
types. We would like your opinion concerning the rapport between infrastructure
and architectural types from the viewpoint of planning.
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April 19th to July 13th, 1997 [Finished]
Gallery A