THE VENUS PROJECT DESIGN

Personnel• Andrew Buxton & Julita Wielgat

3d Visualizations

City design• Form and Function• Why they look the way they do

City design

1 tonne of garbage = 5 tonnes of materials to produce

5 tonnes of material = 25 tonnes of mining to produce

City design

industry

City designLocalization and integration• Saves energy• Saves time• Saves resources• Saves space

Product design• Actually upgradeable• Biodegradable components

Universal components and compatibility/recyclability

Architecture

Aquaponics & Hydroponics

Embedded transport

Form as Function

3D Printing & Contour Crafting

“Normal”

Solution?

3D Visualizations

Access vs ownership

House-hunting is a problem

Patchwork as aspirational

Automated construction

and the first cities

The Test City

THE MYTH OF OVERPOPULATION

In the UK alone, 6.7 million tonnes per year of wasted food, whilst It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, and more than 8 million actually die from it each year.

RENEWABLE ENERGY

Geothermal

Solar

Tidal Wind

DESIGNING & BUILDING CITIES

• Inefficient methods

• Constrained by monetary system

THE TRANSITION

• Dependent upon conditions• Dependent upon geographic area

• But…this present system is ending one way or another…

• The goal: a positive future

THE TRANSITION

RESOURCES AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION

• Access as opposed to ownership• Growth of the cultural and artistic• An access abundance

RESOURCES AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION

The city: Value-orientations

FUTURE PROJECTS & HOW YOU CAN HELP

Major motion picture

http://www.thevenusproject.com/donations-motion-picture

ONGOING PROJECTS

1. Global Scientific and Technical Database2. 3D Model production for use in

• 3D City Simulations• 3D Computer Game• 3D Visualizations, Print Media• 3D Animations, DVD Media

3. Preliminary City Construction Drawings4. Software Development Projects5. Web Development Projects

andrew.buxton@thevenusproject.comwww.thevenusproject.com