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Project References

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  The Nagakin Capsule Tower by Kurokawa Kisho

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  The International Space Station constructed of a lot of different modules

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  Point Countrepoint II by Louis Kahn, a floating concert stage that can move by itself

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  An American aircraft carrier, a complete city by itself

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  Speculative proposal for an underwater city based on NASA space technology

Megastructures, Metabolism, Habitat67, Stubnitz, RepRap

Buttom-Up

Leupen:"Archilgram's city of the future is displayed as a huge communication network in which the possibilities of technology and mass-media are being used to a maximum extend and where the civilization is changing continuisly."

Water Villa - Herzberger

Links

-FLIP, an example of a movable boat that can position itself on another location in an inventive way.

-The revolt house, a sustainable turning houseboat currently under design at our faculty.

-Archive of Archigram, a lot of very usefull reference projects.

-a research to a floating highrise building

-'NDSM-harbour' which rents out different boats and event spaces.

A Kind of Blog

General stuff that I find interesting and might be somehow relevant to the project.

-A friends post on facebook linked to this story. The famous violin player Joshua Bell played for 45 minutes in the subways of Washington during rush hour earning $32. Just 3 days before he filled the Boston's stately Symphony Hall at $100 a seat. How do we recognize beauty?

For anyone who likes to know whats going on in Amsterdam-Noord check out ilovenoord

A Lot of my fellow students take the graffity at the site as their inspiration which reminded me to the documententary I once saw called The subconcious art of graffity removal.