everything from boats , yurts, tipi's , circus tents , two man tents , manor houses , castles , hot air balloons ,caves , chateau's , bodega's , factories , cinema's , wagons , caravans , polytunnels , tiny houses ,eco pods, train stations, underground lairs, islands , mainlands … and even conventional four wall suburban dwellings lol … and I have attempted comprehensive studies on long term eco viability for all of them !
wandering around various continents and finding all manner of curiosity tucked away in all manner of places! it has in many ways been both a burden ( mostly because I get a kind of punch drunk disorientation envelop me at times) and a blessing - the range of experience that is available out here is really incredible … and the more you find testament to your own validity from small pockets of isolated resistance that does still sporadically remain ….
any way Architecture ….
I have lived in every form of ' shelter ' from every facet of the evolution of human habitation ritual that has ever been developed … I have engaged in the manner and business of attempteing to ' live ' a viable and sustainable existence from all manner of edifice … some certainly proving more difficult than others ! and my observations and conclusions have brought me round 360 degrees and back again …
ultimately of course one has to conclude that the basic premise is that the very calculable value of land ….is utterly outmoded , outdated and in dire need of reform …. and unfathomably overpriced !!
and that is currently sadly, an international truth but sadly no where is it more evident than here in my homeland !!!.....
now there are reasons to assume that the ever speculative model of ' growth ' that we have come to accept as a given ...is completely unsustainable, our expanding population requiring more and more resource 'factoried' through a bizarre modern model of capitalist slavery ….. is now the subject of international protest !
we are running out of hills to quarry , out of valleys to dam … out of viable wildernesses to ' develop '...out of fish to eat and air to breathe !! we are running out of room for the ever expanding population that vie for the continued destruction of a finite planet so that they might extend their collection of beanie babies or vacation photo's …. in this now out of control age of the obsessive compulsive acquisition …..the age of the charlatan !! …. the age of Donald Trump ! and all of this obsessive consumption who really benefits ??
well I call them the ' percentage people '
a kind of half human creature that can find no better means of survival than to operate in a parasitic fashion to sustain its own meagre self …. its really a sad shame that since the age of Thatcher so many of them seem to have found themselves rather lucrative positions in the ' service economy ' … but that's an analysis for another day ….
so amid my travels and various stays in various manner of abode ( and for good or ill, keeping various manner of company )
I have made some deductions !! firstly well lets be frank at least half of the current labour market needs to be dismantled …. well we need to desperately reappraise quite what it is that we en mass consider to be worthwhile pursuit of time … let alone worthwhile vocation ( but again perhaps that's a mission for another day infact perhaps the current and inevitable shrinking of global markets and economies will derive the obvious result ,as reaction alone … well one can hope anyway )
the applicable ' value ' of labour itself needs to be largely reconsidered … but again I will leave that alone for just one second ( no point creating an enemy of absolutely every one in the first blast )
A humans contribution to a financially orientated economic model will always use the labour to derive a product ( in this case cash ) … this has to change !! we need to once again have a tenable value to a currency that has rendered itself the only means of barter in our currently warped market !
so once we have begun to build legislation to enable this kind if grass roots empowerment of the individual … and not just the strength of community organization ...we might start to get somewhere
the result of the millions of pounds that will be thrown into think tanks and consultation and breifings and meetings … will be colossal !! as the perentage people all cling to their clip boards and try to figure out how they might be able to preserve their position of administration in well paid - low output- latte fuelled clique ...for just a little while longer any way !!
really we all need to be farmers to get rid if this entire ilk… and not over a slow transition period that is run out according to the populist chasing politic we have all come to know and loathe over the past few decades … oh no !! we need to break up the national trust … dismantle most of our current programmes !! turf some ' old blood ' out of the spaces that they have buried themselves in like ticks amid sprawling green acres …. we need to shut down the agricultural commission and the forestry commission ….
I think the only things that we really need right now are fundamental survival options built into our basic accommodations and very basic infrastructure - a few academic ' institutions ' … well places of learning ,absolutely … but I think that we can largely discredit the current model of operation that once again like everything else has come to benefit the percentage people far more than it benefits the dedicated student ….
the whole things has to be shut down !! we need to stop fuelling it , stop feeding it , stop adhering to it , complying with it ,certainly stop applying to join it !!
personally I advocate that from the grassroots implementation scheme … we cant really petition the governments and failed financial services sectors of the world to ' cease to be ' … they will claw at the last thread of survival and come up with some mc vegan ' we want to be your friends really ' kind of slimy supplication …
no better to just insist that the whole thing be put on hiatus and managed interparochial fashion until some sort of semblance of sense can be established
I ham not the first one to entertain the idea of sweeping humanity up in its constant untidy sprawl and refine the urban model into something a little more refined !!
indeed walt Disney and frank loyd wright .. and of course Jaque Frescoe of the venus project all advocated notions of ' the super city '
and indeed now science fiction has come to enlarge the principle idea again and even take those super cities into orbit or even into interstellar explorations ??
wonderfully fantastic notions of course … of for the completely delusional and hopeless romantic of course !!
unfortunately if we are going to survive for even another thousand years ( which by the way would probably make sense as a time frame for a limited construction margin with limited resource and more theory than experience to build anything that might actually stand a chance of transporting any semblance of what's left of this ' civilisation across galaxies ) … we are going to have to figure out a terrestrial means of doing so
of course we can just kill half the current population - but which half ?? at the moment it seems that this might be an actual ' unofficial mandate ' for some of the people of the world that own most of the world , but don't want to share …. and it does seem that we have rendered such a failure of ourselves that the world will be inherited by the children of the Donald Trump's of the world and the civil servants that assisted them to power … its really a bleak state of affairs I know !!
so lets say that we can have a wealth redistribution … and we can run a viable education programme that will give everyone suitable legal and agricultural acumen to be able to self govern and self sustain for a viable period of political upheaval within an emerging resource based economic model …
its amazing that I just cant leave politics out of planning !!
but the two have become so mercilessly interwoven that I suppose that one is always worthy a mention in the company of the other …
so we have a huge population that all just need somewhere to ' live ' …. and we have a smaller population that claim to own all the spaces where all the people could live …. and then ' live ' ??… how??
in the perpetual urban sprawl … on the gas guzzling commute to some ' service based economy ' administration or sales position taking 'cheap ' flights of the back of the latest middle east invasion ...or walt Disney holiday promotion ? ….its all geared to the end of the world !! in fact at this very late stage its very hard to side step the self imposed ' end of the world ' that this particular herd of lemmings are hell bent on careening over the edge of ?
but we have to start somewhere right !!!
so all complaints and mistrust of governments / corporations and the types of people that would actually vie for positions in either …. bleeuugghhh !!!
we need a population of individualist orientated -individual communities - integrated through broad networking and common goal methods, operating on a basic democratic model with collaborative enterprise being at the forefront of community aspiration, yet operating in a fashion allowing for deviation and prescribed experimentation from the emerging formats
how the fuck do we do that ??
well its not easy I grant you … and when you start to peel the onion you really do start to wonder about the idea of ' social conditioning ' and the machinations of evil men and women
anyway ….
we need an empowered and independent individual within an empowered and independent community … self reliance and self sustainability are the key!!
within our ' conventional ' and failed urban models we obviously need to integrate the ' re ruralisation ' principles that I have personally been advocating for over 20 years - and which now are actually becoming more mainstream and even being adopted by some of the more progressive urban planners / architects and designers all over the world - which is all great news !!
and we are hearing interesting things coming out of some of the larger and more questionable ' status quo ' companies - about large scale urban planning contracts of this nature actually being taken seriously by international governments . Japan for example is set to be one of the first countries in the world to design / develop / and build the worlds ' first ' Single structure city scape …. although of course such scales of construction have been attempted and completed to date never has a full integrative and habitable city been accomplished and completed with any margin of success
I am sure the first examples will be doomed to failure …. huge titanic style enterprises with tiny accommodation offerings , very little privacy and some half baked notion of attempting to construct ideal inhabitants for the ' ideal ' society by all manner of weird suggestive and subversive augmentations of environment and or perception … but again maybe I digress a little … but definitely something to watch out for ??
the current and basic model that every one is using is absolutely and fundamentally flawed .. of course !!
we are running a spatial allocation paradigm that is offering maximum financial return for investor and landlord and minimum spatial allocation or 'liveability' for the inhabitant -
I have been pointing out in the u.k for well over a decade that the spatial allocations over cost have been in reverse gear for a very long time … that the amount of space that you get for your money has exponentially reduced and that is indicative of more than just a rise in property price … but also a simultaneous reduction in the conveyable value of labour !!
we started running a rabid speculative building campaign here in the u.k around 2010 .. when they just started throwing up these tiny ' match box ' houses , just so people could start to get a ' foot on the property ladder ' … it was a mainia that I couldn't believe took hold … let alone that it still seems to be operational as a viable and legitimate con !
what if we suddenly have another war I proclaimed … and we all suddenly have to start to ' grow for victory ' again …. ''it'll never happen'' they said !! - then we ended up doing or partially doing a Brexit !!
the same thing happened to me around 2005 … I was sat in a chamber of commerce meeting concerning a local produce and trade collective - '' there might be a recession in a minute '' … I was met with hatred !! when the credit crunch happened … no one once said to me - well you saw that coming
then the recession hit - not a jot !! not a single credible acknowledgement for foretelling the future
fuck these people !! that's where my attitude comes from !!
so we now have a huge amount of a population that have over speculated on the price of the apartment they brought for a quarter of a million pounds that doesn't even have a window in the bathroom …. or more than a window box's worth of green produce potential in the entire sad little 80m2
you do see my frustration …. why I consider this all to be wholly and completely bat shit crazy !!
so back to the over all premise ….
what are we going to do with this weird dispraxic population ….
I am having a thought here Barbosa ….
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