Completed in Nov. 2009, Using 3dmax and Photoshop Residential Layer
The exhaustion of housing land led to the implementation of housing equalitarianism, in which rated housing space is equally distributed to every homeless citizen. Further, the urgency of providing houses to millions of refugee forces the rated housing space to be fully modularized as an industrial product. This conception of “capsule dwelling” was firstly proposed by Warren Chalk in 1964. He designed a capsule house with components which “would be tailored and able to be updated as technology moved forward, and as the dweller changed his needs.” And when “snugly and efficiently locked together they were capable of total inter-changeability.” (Archigram, 1994)
A dwelling machine
To be total inter-change, the residential layer is designed to be a dwelling machine, a huge transit system of the capsules with 400 floors. On each floor, 32 branches extend out from main structure. On every branch large mechanical conveyer belt is equipped, and on each conveyer belt 20 capsules are fixed. Freight elevators are used to load the capsules between conveyer belts, in a closed rail of loading cranes along the central structure. In the exchange system, the conveyer belt A carries capsule A’ to its inner end, detaches it and leaves it on a freight elevator, then the freight elevator transports it to floor B. After that, the loading crane on floor B picks capsule A’ up and carries it along the rail to the inner end of conveyer belt B. Finally, capsule A’ would be put at a vacancy on floor B. At the same time, along an inverse path, capsule B’ is transported to the initial location of capsule A’.
The exhaustion of housing land led to the implementation of housing equalitarianism, in which rated housing space is equally distributed to every homeless citizen. Further, the urgency of providing houses to millions of refugee forces the rated housing space to be fully modularized as an industrial product. This conception of “capsule dwelling” was firstly proposed by Warren Chalk in 1964. He designed a capsule house with components which “would be tailored and able to be updated as technology moved forward, and as the dweller changed his needs.” And when “snugly and efficiently locked together they were capable of total inter-changeability.” (Archigram, 1994)
A dwelling machine
To be total inter-change, the residential layer is designed to be a dwelling machine, a huge transit system of the capsules with 400 floors. On each floor, 32 branches extend out from main structure. On every branch large mechanical conveyer belt is equipped, and on each conveyer belt 20 capsules are fixed. Freight elevators are used to load the capsules between conveyer belts, in a closed rail of loading cranes along the central structure. In the exchange system, the conveyer belt A carries capsule A’ to its inner end, detaches it and leaves it on a freight elevator, then the freight elevator transports it to floor B. After that, the loading crane on floor B picks capsule A’ up and carries it along the rail to the inner end of conveyer belt B. Finally, capsule A’ would be put at a vacancy on floor B. At the same time, along an inverse path, capsule B’ is transported to the initial location of capsule A’.
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