Close to the presentation date i took a brief look at two well known examples of 'sustainable future scenario' based design by two of the most well respected architects of the last century - Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. Whilst both concepts were aimed at improving quality of living and took a somewhat closed system approach, they both applied the ideas in a very broad brush homogeneous way.
Le Corbusier's 'Vile Contemporaine'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw8LNJ8gBq4
Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City
http://yorkutopias.blogspot.com.au/2008/02/building-utopia-frank-lloyd-wright-and.html
The diagram above represents my thoughts on why both Le Corbusier's and Frank Lloyds Wright's utopian image fail in fundamental way. The left image shows how i believe people view closed loop systems whilst the right represents how i believe them to truly occur in nature. To successfully design closed loop systems i believe we need to layer them and intertwine them with other closed loop systems and subsequently build an entire ecosystem from these individual cases. Diversity is the key to a healthy ecosystem.
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