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WHERE AND WHEN
Silk Road Map Evolution is the winning proposal for
the Silk Road Map International Competition orga-
nized by New Italian Blood and open to Italian and
Chinese professionals and students. The Silk Road is
an extensive interconnected network of trade routes
across the Asian continent connecting Asia with the
Mediterranean, North and Northeast Africa, and
Europe. The Silk Road has been given its name from
the lucrative Chinese silk trade, a major reason for
the connection of trade routes to an extensive trans-
continental network. As such, the Silk Road was also
historically important as a route for cultural, com-
mercial, and technological exchange between myri-
ads of dierent people: traders, merchants, pilgrims,
missionaries, soldiers, nomads, and urban dwellers.
BASIC CONDITIONS
Silk Road Map Evolution is a project conceived from
the desire to re-establish and rebuild the current
Silk Road link through a social, economic, politi-
cal, and architectural rehabilitation of the old Silk
Road route. The new Silk Road becomes a driving
force for the creation of small urban projects. It is a
new way of conceiving urban sprawl (linear), where
larger cities help smaller cities.Silk Road is a project
that strongly links architecture and infrastructure
through a new main railway line, which will follow the
current Silk Road route that will run from Venice to
Xian in China through several countries en route,
extending its arms across an infrastructure net-
work, commercial services, and new housing. The
route will bring new impetus to ailing and luckless
economic regions in its vicinity. The 15,000-kilome-
ter-long Silk Road will be interspersed with several
bionic towers constituting the new conurbations
core, while new cities, congured like routes, will run
from the main branch (the main Silk Road line) link-
ing smaller disadvantaged and unconnected towns
and cities. The system is conceived as a kind of a
pump, which will feed the small disadvantaged cit-
ies along the new Silk Road with economic lifeblood,
which will revive them economically and socially.
KEY PRINCIPLES
Silk Road Map Evolution is a kind of global metropo-
lis for the future based on the idea of designing a
set of highly dierentiated, sustainable, and habit-
able towers. These small living worlds are organized
into rounded skyscrapers according to program,
habitants and the proximity to the railway line and
the countryside. The proposal consists of two urban,
ecologically integrated systems which will be devel-
oped vertically and horizontally respectively. The
rst element, the complex of towers, will be com-
posed of three dierent types of skyscrapers that
will have an average height of 400m. The second
element, the Silk Road railway system, will form the
main line of the Silk Road and will serve as a line
of commercial transport with trains travelling on
new railways lines based on gravitational, polarized
elds, thereby merging the East with the West.The
outer membrane of the complex, towers and tunnel,
will consist of a unique and innovative system con-
structed with a high standard ecological concrete
based on titanium dioxide that will help to signi-
cantly reduce air pollution and, via synthetic chloro-
phyll, generate a photo-catalytic reaction produc-
ing 500 million liters of oxygen (clean air) per day.
30 31 GREAT SCAPES . CHPT. SILK ROAD MAP EVOLUTION SILK ROAD MAP EVOLUTION
Project Title:
SILK ROAD MAP EVOLUTION
Architect:
OFL Architecture
Envisioned Project Location:
Silk Road Route
Envisioned Completion Date:
The near future
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Alicia Framis
Spain, www.aliciaframis.com
Project Title:
Moon Life Project
Photo/Image and additional credits:
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010
Page:
240
AMID.cero9
Cristina Daz Moreno,
Efrn Garca Grinda
Spain, www.cero9.com/amidmagazine
Project Title:
AmesMM
Quarantined Library
Acoustic Botany
Fabulous Fabbers
Pages:
141, 189
Anthony Lau
UK, www.cyclehoop.com / www.tonylaudesign.com
Project Title:
Flooded London
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Masters project at the Bartlett
School of Architecture, University
College London
Pages:
76 79
Arup
Alanna Howe,
Alexander Hespe
United Kingdom, www.arup.com
Project Title:
Syph. The Oceanic City
Photo/Image and additional credits:
FloodSlicer
Pages:
82 83
Atelier Van Lieshout
Netherlands, www.ateliervanlieshout.com
Project Title:
Slave City
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Atelier Van Lieshout
Pages:
54 55
B
Ballistic
Architecture Machine
China, www.bam-usa.com
Project Title:
Biornis Aesthetope
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Ballistic Architecture Machine
Page:
216
DCA/ Design Crew
for Architecture
Nicolas Chausson, Gal
Desveaux,
Jiaoyang Huang
France, www.d-c-a.eu
Project Title:
Freshwater Factory
Photo/Image and additional credits:
DCA
Pages:
146 147
Dylan Cole
USA, www.dylancolestudio.com
Project Title:
The Industrialist Monks
Pages:
196 197
F
Faulders Studio
Thom Faulders
USA, www.faulders-studio.com
Project Title:
GEOtube
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Images: Faulders Studio. Design
team: Thom Faulders, Jason Chang,
Charles Lee, Devin Rutz, Scott Blew
Pages:
162 163
Behrang Behin
USA, bbehin22@yahoo.com
Project Title:
Stack City
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Landscape consultant for urban-
scale model: Theodore Hoerr
Pages:
46 49
BIG/
Bjarke Ingels Group
Denmark, www.big.dk
Project Title:
Hualien Beach Resort
Photo/Image and additional credits:
BIG
Pages:
153 155
C
cdmb architects |
Christophe DM
BARLIEB
Germany, www.barlieb.com
Project Title:
Green Desert Mine
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Christophe DM BARLIEB
Project Title:
Vard Arks
Photo/Image and additional credits:
C. Barlieb, M. Seitz, C. Lara
Pages:
50, 70 71
Federico Pedrini
Federico Pedrini, Elia De
Tomasi, Filippo Mazzaron,
Alessandra Pepe, Silvia
Sandor
Belgium, www.fedepedrini.info
Project Title:
400k Pods
Photo/Image and additional credits:
nonms
Page:
148
Forrest Fulton
Architecture
USA, www. forrestfulton.com
Project Title:
Lace Hill over Yerevan
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Project team: Jared Fulton, Andrew
C. Bryant, Derrick Owens
Pages:
36 39
G
Giacomo Costa
Italy, www.giacomocosta.com
Project Title:
Consistenze & Persistenze
Pages:
26 27
Christian Kerrigan
Ireland, www.christiankerrigan.com
Project Title:
The Amber Clock from
The 200 Year Continuum
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Christian Kerrigan
Pages:
194 195
Christian Waldvogel
Switzerland, www.waldvogel.com
Project Title:
Globus Cassus
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Christian Waldvogel/Pro Litteris,
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010
Pages:
246 249
Crab Studio
Peter Cook &
Gavin Robotham
United Kingdom, www.crabstudio.co.uk
Project Title:
Soak City
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Design Team: Peter Cook,
Gavin Robotham, Lorene Faure
Project Title:
Tower of Droplets
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Design Team: Peter Cook,
Gavin Robotham, Jenna Al-Ali,
Nuria Blanco, Lorene Faure,
Selma Johannson, Michael Kaverne
of Buro Happold
Pages:
124 125, 210 211
Greg Lynn Form
Greg Lynn Form,
Imaginary Forces,
Alex McDowell
USA, www.glform.com
Project Title:
New City
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Courtesy of Greg Lynn Form and
Imaginary Forces, Richard Perry, and
New York Times, Ari Marcopoulos.
Gallery view of Greg Lynns New City
in Other Space Odysseys: Greg Lynn,
Michael Maltzan, Alessandro Poli
(2010). Centre Canadien
dArchitecture, Montral
Pages:
192 193
H
Hans-Jurgen Rombaut
| Lunar Architecture
Netherlands, www.lunararchitecture.com
Project Title:
Lunar Hotel
Photo/Image and additional credits:
H-J Rombaut- Lunar architecture
Page:
245
Hctor Zamora
Brazil, www.lsd.com.mx
Project Title:
Zeppelins Swarm
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Photography: Hector Zamora.
Posters: Campo, Photomontages.
Image: Antonio Zanon. Edition:
Renato Ferro Diego Girondi
Pages:
230 231
250 251 INDEX C H A C
Hodgetts + Fung
Design and
Architecture
USA, www.hplusf.com
Project Title:
Casa Pulpa
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Craig Hodgetts
Pages:
170
HOLLWICH KUSHNER
LLC (HWKN)
Matthias Hollwich,
Marc Kushner
USA, www.hwkn.com
Project Title:
Skygrove
MEtreePOLIS
Pages:
91, 120
HWELER+YOON
ARCHITECTURE
USA, www.hyarchitecture.com
Project Title:
Eco-Pod (Gen1)
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Design: Hweler+Yoon Architecture/
Squared Design Lab. Image credit:
Hweler + Yoon Architecture/
Squared Design Lab
Pages:
182 185
Mas Yendo
Japan, www.masyendo.org
Project Title:
UL-9205
UL-9304
Beautiful Minds
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Project Manager: Ma Yansong
Design team: Jtravis Bennett Russett
Project Title:
Aqualta
Cloud City
Cloud Skippers
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Studio Lindfors
Pages:
66 67, 232, 233 235
R&sie(n)
An architecture
des Humeurs
Franois Roche, Stphanie
Lavaux, Kiuchi Toshikatsu,
associated to Stephan
Henrich, Franois Jouve
France, www.new-territories.com
Project Title:
Dustyrelief
Hypnosis Chamber
Water Flux
Inatable Ice
Photo/Image and additional credits:
R&Sie(n) / Le Laboratoire / 2010.
Scenario, design, production:
R&Sie(n). Process and Robotic
Design: Stephan Henrich. Mathemati-
cal Process: Franois Jouve. Compu-
tations: Winston Hampel, Natanael
Elfassy, some help from Marc Fornes
Design & Process of physiological
collect: Gatan Robillard, Frdric
Mauclere, Jonathan Derrough.
Nano-rceptors scnario: Berdaguer
et Pjus. Microneedles: Mark Kendall
The Lift: Delphine Chevrot, Takako
Sato. Physiological Interview:
Candice Poitrey. Text Natural
Machine: Chris Younes. Architect:
Jiang Bin, Laura Bellamy, Rosalie
Laurin. Photography: Matthieu
Kavyrchine
Pages:
164 165, 178 180, 181, 243
Rael San Fratello
Architects
Ronald Rael,
Virginia San Fratello
USA, www.rael-sanfratello.com
Project Title:
Migrating Floating Gardens Airscape
Architecture
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Rael San Fratello Architects
Pages:
236 237
studiomobile |
favretto + girardi
architetti
Antonio Girardi,
Cristiana Favretto
Ital, www.studiomobile.org
Project Title:
SeaWater Vertical Farm
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Courtesy Favretto+Girard
Pages:
149 151
T
Taylor Medlin
USA, www.tgmedlin.com
Project Title:
Towards a New Antarchitecture
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Taylor Medlin
Pages:
102 103
Terreform ONE
USA, www.terreform.org
Project Title:
Future North:
Ecotariums in the North Pole
Urbaneering Brooklyn 2110
City of the Future
The Eco-Commune
Pages:
122 123, 130 131
ROOM11/Scott Lloyd,
Aaron Roberts, Katrina Stoll
UK, www.room11.com
Project Title:
iP2100 (Island proposition 2100)
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Design Team: Scott Lloyd, Aaron
Roberts (room 11) and Katrina Stoll
Image credits: Scott Lloyd, Aaron
Roberts (room 11) and Katrina Stoll
Page:
51
S
SENSEable City
Laboratory
MIT Senseable City Lab
USA, www.senseable.mit.edu
Project Title:
The Cloud
Pages:
227 229
The Why Factory (T?F)
Winy Maas, Ulf Hackauf,
Pirjo Haikola, Bas
Kalmeyer, Tihamer Salij
Netherlands, www.thewhyfactory.com
Project Title:
City Pig
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Copyright by The Why Factory,
visualisation by Wieland & Grouwens,
Rotterdam
Pages:
84, 133
Tomas Saraceno
Germany, www.t-saraceno.org
Project Title:
Cloud Cities/Air-Port-City
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Courtesy of the artist and
Andersens Contemporary,
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
and pinksummer contemporary art
Page:
226
Tomorrows
Thoughts Today
USA, www.terreform.org
Project Title:
Where The Grass Is Greener
The Mobile Mountain City Zoo
Green Float
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Green Float Team of Shimizu;
Project Manager:
Mr. Masaki Takeuchi
Project Title:
Luna Ring
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Luna Ring Team of Shimizu;
Project manager: Mr. Tetsuji Yoshida
Pages:
88, 244
Silu Yang
xxxx, yangsilu520@googlemail.com
Project Title:
The Religious City
Pages:
100 101
SPEEDISM
Belgium/Germany, www.speedism.net
Project Title:
Doomdough
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Speedism (Julian Friedauer +
Pieterjan Ginckels)
Pages:
57, 58 59
Squint/Opera
UK, www.squintopera.com
Project Title:
Coney Island
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Squint/Opera
Pages:
186 188
V
Vahan Misakyan
Armenia, www.vahan-architecture.com
Project Title:
Evolving Skyscraper
Photo/Image and additional credits:
Vahan Misakyan
Pages:
144 145
Vincent Callebaut
Architect
France, www.vincent.callebaut.org
Project Title: