Breathing City project / Chapter 1
HUMAN
Studying human nature is as important as studying the city, or even more. Architecture is a code of harmonic social organization and vice versa. So the main questions I thought about while trying to build a breathing city concept were “What is human?”, “Who lives in the city and how?”, “How to make people happy?” A human being is a very complicated system. It is merely impossible to describe it in a single model. I’ve developed a wave–particle duality concept. A human as a particle means “people” could not exist totally as individuals; particle is a part of a whole by definition. As technology progresses, tighter and denser connections will appear (verbal to imaginary) with mutual education, mutual growth and mutual experiences. These different particles make one great image. A human as a wave states that human being himself is not a static notion. They are also changing, growing and evolving; this makes people unique as they do not copy themselves throughout their life cycle. There would not be any boundaries between education, work and entertainment. A person would seek for the job which makes him happy, and the technical progress will serve as tool for self-expression. Creating the new is the only thing we could not automate and the only reason to exist.