Unlike the old concept of public spaces that rely on objects as a single attraction, the new prototype of urban island by Erick Kristanto for the Seattle Urban Intervention Competition uses various different activities as multiple magnets. The activities are pooled on the elevated platform as a new addition of the Seattle center complex. Since all of the programmed activities are moved to the elevated platform, the ground floor can be almost free of structure for flexible multipurpose space. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Due to the post-war recovery and economy taking-off in 70s’, the population is growing. Human are able to and have to expand their territories for their own life and inhabitation, and hence the city rapidly grows. Human insatiably expand their inhabitation causing serious threats to the nature cycle. The result of an imbalanced environment also immediately verifies the nature’s anger. Then humans started to think about the issues of the sustainability and harmony with the nature for their next expansion. However, sustainability solely can’t solve the decreasing of the natural life caused by human.
