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Every year, TreeHugger and all the architectural websites troll through the Evolo competition entries, looking for the most imaginative work from young architects with time on their hands. Sometimes you just have to shake your head and wonder at the creativity and drawing skills. In 2010, I did not pay a lot of attention to Bunker Arquitectura’s proposal forEarthscraper, an upside down pyramid in downtown Mexico City.
Bunker Arquitectura/viaIt was not a new idea, and it was not the best iteration of it that I had seen. But in two years, it has become a worldwide sensation. Emily Gertz at EcoImagination writes:
She spoke with Jeremy Faludi, who had some issues with the concept:
I discounted it at the time for some of the same reasons; while I admired the density, I didn’t think it resolved the environmental issues. I also remembered an earlier proposal from 2007 that had the same name,Earthscraper. and I thought, from an environmental point of view, was perhaps a bit better resolved:
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But when it comes to resolving environmental issues, nobody comes close to Matthew Fromboluti, who
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He’s designed passive systems that work well in hot climates, including evaporative coolers and a solar chimney to create air circulation.
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I couldn’t write this post without noting the wonderful design for an underground city in Alexander Korda’s wonderful 1936 film Things To Come. A giant hologram of Raymond Massey is about to fill the place.
Back at EcoImagination, Emily Gertz notes that it the popularity of the scheme took the architect by surprise:
It surprised me too, given the competition. Which do you like best?
