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2048: An architectural fiction
Dieter Dietz, Caroline Dionne, Shin Alexandre Koseki, Thomas Charles Marie Pierre Favre-Bulle
2012
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2012
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Abstract
ALICE studio conducted in parallel with the LABA master studio in the context of the CH2048 research project envisioning a Switzerland with 16 million inhabitants by 2048 – a population only slightly larger than the one resulting from extrapolation of the demographic development of the Swiss population in the past three years. 2048 – An Architectural Fiction, grounds design on imagination, scientific analysis and the potential of the visionary in order to produce a narrative and its constructed setting.
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