Linear city masterplan

PRE-CONCEPT DESIGN | PHASE 2: Selected project masterplan, urban design and public space, architecure design ELEVATED URBANISM in search of the future of urbanity Ideas of vertical urbanism have been in circulation for decades yet diluted with references to classical cities with vertical buildings. The Line is a call for a new way, a call for Elevated Urbanism in its purest form. A city, as an entirety, that radically changes its footprint, freeing the ground and elevating all aspects of life. A city that imagines life on another plane of existence. The LINE requires new urban formulation, one that is a step further than the classical idea of vertical urbanism, one that calls for the full elevation of the everyday. The everyday is elevated, the individual and the social-economic life of the city is composed in a different plain, one that is now dominated by verticality and free of necessity for the ground. The city now offers many OTHER grounds and elaborate domains traditionally belonging to the horizontal. Ideas of traditional urban conditions have been revised, relearned, established and even invented. Conditions need to be designed, shaped and constructed as they are not necessarily given. Responsibility for the conditions and intentions of the city is therefore much greater and the responsibility of the designer and the citizen. Sub-Consultants: Bollinger+Grohmann - Structural design Brian Cody - Energy and Sustainability VTlab / LJ Group- Landscape Design BWK - MEP building services Joule Group - FLS Strategy DragonFly-Security risk assessment D2E- Vertical mobility Redas Engineering - Horizontal mobility EDIT & VIMIU & FRIED, DIORAMA - archviz