newitalianblood

The competition asked a plan for a self sufficient town, at first producing an abstract scheme and then applying it to the Henna area in Finland.Instead of thinking on a town of 20000 inhabitants made up of a centre that slowly flows until the margins and superposes itself to the existing areas, we considered more nodes closely interconnected among them.Here, each node is part of a network that constitutes the whole town and the way the single nodes are connected one another lets nature flow throw the system, making a balanced void/full system at this scale. The flexibility of the network allows to include in the system the ever-changing conditions of landscape and infrastructures, easily adapting to an enormous amount of possibly pre-existing situations. Each node can host up to 2000 people, this reduced scale allowing to deal with the need for a self-sufficient urban unit on different scales.