Imagine:
• Living in a city with no cars or trucks
• Having your own vegetable garden nearby
• With all urban amenities including:
Schools, colleges, health care facilities, fitness
centers, movie theaters, cafes, restaurants, hotels
and more
• A city surrounded by gardens, orchards and farms
• With roof top gardens and patios
• With views of beautiful courtyards and a natural
landscape which surrounds the entire city
• Where you can live, work, and play without having to
travel
• Living in a city with clean, non-polluted air
All this becomes a reality when you live in Andromeda.
The world’s population is increasing by one million people every four days, or nearly ninety million people per year. The rapid urbanization currently taking place in China, for example, is devastating the biosphere, producing tons of carbon dioxide and, generally, contributing to global warming and planetary pollution. With this urgent issue in mind, TIA has developed a macrostructure named Andromeda. Currently, a “Green team” of consultants in related fields is being organized in order to construct a prototype of this green, sustainable urban living.
Essentially, Andromeda is composed of a number of interconnected buildings; each designed by a different architect. The individual buildings are connected horizontally at multiple levels so upon completion, Andromeda functions as a single contiguous eco-city.
Andromeda is a bit like Manhattan but the buildings are more compressed and the central buildings are a bit taller. More importantly, Andromeda is proposed to be surrounded by an extensive public park, farms, orchards and open land held in trust in perpetuity by the community. All the roofs of Andromeda are flat because they are all living roofs. The ground plane is simply elevated so that from many parts of the city people can walk outdoors onto patios and gardens. Living roofs enable photosynthesis to continue uninterrupted, help consume carbon dioxide and generally preserve the biosphere.
