Design | September 25, 2007 | 2 comments

Acrosanti: Sipping From a Utopian Well in the Desert

source: http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/travel/16next.html?ex=1347595200&en=fe5549c2f9be3799&ei...

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"With its radical conservation techniques and a brilliantly scrunched-together layout, Arcosanti was intended to reinvent not just the city, but also man's relationship to the planet: picture a 60s vision of a Mars colony, but with a cutting-edge, eco-friendly design. Evaporative cooling pools release moisture into the air. In winter, heat from the foundry furnace is collected by a hood and sent through the apartments above."
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