Concept

Percision and absolution. Striving for the necessary perfection. The perfect form. The perfect geometry, a box. The perfect contour, A straight line. The perfect angle, 90 degrees. They call it the “right angle”. What about the rest of them? Probably VG the “wrong angles”. A perfect maximum. Maximum space. Maximum efficiency. Maximum usability. Maximum dominance. Better profits.

An unthinkable vastness of industrial proportions. A multidisciplinary “mini” metropolis, governed by as many entities as necessary and entities themselves, governed by the infrastructure itsself. A mutual dominance or a mutual submission?

All seduced by the sweet stench of industry, production, consumption and profit. A Behemoth, asserting sheer dominance and resonating a certain gravity solely by its size and as we all know, size DOES matter.

Entities gathered by common ambitions yet separated by strict rules, scales and functions. A delibrate apart-ment in a dense togetherness. Elements collaberating and interacting to further refine the infrastructure. A planned chaos in a near symbiotic whole. And it’s all for the best. Because he who can control disorder, has nothing to fear.

These words attract a specific crowd. Probably not your typical suburban family but rather your inventors, contractors, manufacturers and the fattest of the corporate fatcats. And that’s how it’s meant to be. The “unwantables” of the masses, all gathered in a gigantic volume. For optimized performance, integration and sustainability. A future for better or worse, an urban sacrifice.

The title of the Project is a combination of the

VG two words: symbiosis and city. Symbiosis is a term used in biology to describe the coexistence of two or more organisms within the same ecosystem. The concept of symbiosis is not strictly limited to just coexistence though. It is basically the togetherness of a variety of species in the ecosystem and that is of course not limited to just living but also growing and interacting. The interactions in an ecosystem are all organic in nature and in some cases can be obligatory. An example of an obligatory symbiosis could be parasites that can only survive by living inside another life form. Without a host, they will die.

A more mutualistic relationship could very simply be bees and flowers. Bees need flowers for their nectar which later leads to them producing honey in their hives, while flowers need a way to spread their pollen and create pollination; and the bees do just that. Two entities which at first glance look and function quite differenly from one another, actually collabrate on a very fundamental level and mutually depend on each other for their survival; just as production depends on consumption to survive.