An Architectural fiction contributed to by 7 students...
Global warming and natural disasters are becomming common place in 2020. The Australian people decide there needs to be a move in parliament to address the issues, combining community, polititians and experts...
They decide the best way to combat the problem is to dig deep under ground and build a new city underground, away from the disasters and warming that is happening on the surface...
A design competition is begun, reaching out to leading professionals in the design, construction, engineering and a range of other relevant fields to come up with a solution to the underground move...
The winning entry is devised of a network of passages that not only connect new underground settlements, but connect to the existing ground-plane infrastructures of inland cities, with the future intention of connecting vertically into new "skyways" placing human civilisation on 3 layers of development...
This connection also allows for new ways of underground agriculture farming, and scientists discover new ways of creating hybrid vegetables to sustain growing populations and shortages of above-ground farming possibilities...
Problems arise over underground territories however, when several towns excavate and spread so far that they run into other towns. Disputes over territory fast turn into riots and violent conflict which the government wants to stop immediately, lets the underground habitats start to collapse...
Horrified at teh collapse of their concept, the designers create a new world map, this time three dimensional. A virtual world accessible by all at all public buildings and services. This map, or web, allows people to locate friends, leave messages and recieve information about what is happening in the world. People can use this system to create polls on important topics and officials use this information to make decisions. This multi-purpose web has effectively become the new Parliament.
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