ARCOSANTI AND PAOLO SOLERI
Paulo Soleri is the pioneer of Arcology, the designing of architecture as human ecology. These arcologies are monumental cities that maintain human life while giving back much of the natural world to the earth to 'heal.'
He is known for developing techniques, materials, and building strategies that
meet attempt to meet the needs of the environment and of humans in the same form of architecture. His buildings aim to be symbiotic structures that flow into and out of a natural surrounding.
The construction of Arcosanti began in 1970. Arcosanti is Soleri's attempt to actualize his theory of arcology starting with grassroots strategies such as builder/resident simultaneity. Those who live in Arcosanti are those who are building it. Arcosanti is home to a ceramics studio and foundry that in addition to needed components for the construction of the city, fabricates fine crafts to raise money for further development. The most well known of these crafts are the Soleri Bells. Soleri's workshop have made much headway in the science of silt casting and have utilized this knowledge in the construction of Arcosanti. Arcosanti is 70 miles outside of Phoenix, Arizona. There's is a lot of research into building in the desert as a measure to preserve the woddlands and plains we still have.
This is a model of what Arcosanti could become. The smallest apse in the center is represents the size of the largest existing apse.
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