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118 The vertical city

debatable, the management of networks in an era of
ecological transition is no longer subject to centralized
systems, but is distributed from the site of renewable
energy production and commercialized within limited
perimeters: increased territorial complexity for better
yields of the entire system? As technological evolutions
will profoundly modify the network graph, one could at
least test the hypothesis.

Third point: the balance of masses and structures, at
the extreme heights currently envisaged in this model of
aerial acrobatics, is made by guyed links, the buildings are
literally suspended from a bundle of aerial cables, sub-
jecting the hexagonal totality on the plan and pyramidal
cross section to a funicular system: the superposed plat-
forms of the high towers are kept in balance in regards
to wind and seismic forces, like the roadway of a suspen-
sion bridge. Because in this model, the high-rise building
is no longer an isolated construction, but built in clusters
so that the structural stresses are equally distributed
among several buildings, placed in a formation of mutual
balance, it is the re-invention of the housing scheme but
imagined like the forest of towers of the Sagrada Familia
and serviced by a network of lines torn from gravity in
order to not encumber the belowground space – the
architects admits by this acrobatic number his aversion
for underground worlds!

In this attempt to imagine the dwelling by con-
centrating vertical cylindrical towers in these clus-
ters, one should recall the towers of Hong Kong that
gather together entire families and thus at the heart of