Conceptual Model/Collage

Our first assignment was to create a conceptual model based on our thesis topic. The only requirement was that it had to answer our architectural, sustainable, structural, and urban ideas/concepts- and how they relate to eachother. We were to also create a title for it, and thus the name The Next Urban Utopia came about...

This title stemmed from the question asked by my instructor, "what is your favorite utopia?" At the time, I did not have an answer. Instead, I decide to look at the ideas of others, Broadacre City by Frank Lloyd, Radiant City by Le Corbu, and the amazing collaged utopias created by Archigram. I suppose the answer to my favorite utopia lies within my ideas and concepts for my micro-city, it lies within this conceptual model.

(Infra)structure Concepts begin at the center and includes images of mass transit systems and paths. It is this, that I envision to become the new infrastructre of the micro-city. Stemming from here are the roads, formerly for automobiles, now the primary paths for pedestrian travel, interaction, and experience.