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In a world where people live more mobile lifestyles than they have for centuries, cities are
facing a problem they rarely planned for: their citizens move away. When jobs and
resources start to decline, modern cities, such as Detroit, suffer difficult and often wasteful
processes of urban contraction. In contrast to this, Manuel Dominguez’s “Very Large
Structure,” the result of his thesis project at ETSA Madrid, proposes a nomadic city that
can move on caterpillar tracks to locations where work and resources are abundant.
Of course this is not the first time that the idea of a nomadic city has been proposed. Ron
Herron’s Walking City is one of the more recognizable Archigram designs from the 1960s,
and has been influential to architectural theory ever since. However, the design for the “Very
Large Structure” expands on the Walking City by including strong proposals for energy
generation on board the city.
Read on to see more on this provocative project – including a full set of presentation boards
in the image gallery.
Dominguez admits that the impulse to design the “Very Large Structure” came from his
desire to stand out from his peers: “knowing that all final thesis are ‘Utopical’, I decided to
do a self-consciously utopical one, utopic for real.”
However, Dominguez also felt it was important that his design be theoretically feasible,
which is why he looked to the world of heavy engineering to inspire the structure’s colossal
steel frame and caterpillar tracks. With all these additions, Dominguez’s design seems less
of a fantasy than Herron’s giant shell on stilts.
Moreover, the Very Large Structure, despite its enormous size, has much less of an impact
on its surrounding ecosystem. Its mobility is proposed as a way to encourage reforestation
of the static cities which it replaces, and part of its day-to-day function is the management
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of this environment. The specific social conditions of the Spanish territory it is designed for
also add to its relevance: it provides work for the high number of unemployed citizens in
Spain.
Although almost 50 years have passed since a moving city was first proposed, when one
considers how many western cities are currently experiencing devastating slowdowns, both
economically and in terms of their population, Manuel Dominguez’s intriguing, fantastical
proposal begins to seem far less absurd – and far more relevant – than it may at first seem.
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Extraordinary graphics, and the volume of w ork is eye-w atering…
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Extraordinery graphics, and the volume of w ork is eye-w atering… takes me back to my Uni days
(and nights, of course!)
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This is exactly w hat Philip Reeves describes in his series “Mortal Engines”. Set in a post-apocalyptic
w orld, mobile cities roam the landscape devouring slow er, smaller cities unable to escape their gigantic jaw s.
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w alking pollution…aw ful…
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As a second year studio project f ine, as a f inal thesis w ell rather silly really no matter how clever
the graphics. If something relocatable of this scale w as ever required the logical thing is to make it a marine
based structure, far more oceans and seas than f lat land suitable for a monster of this size
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