Project

Collective Consciousness: A Utopia that Collapses all Subdivisions of Society into One

Chloe DeMarco

09/05/2023

Year: 2023

imagine/ an architecture that is fluid with the landscape, where land and man are equal, where there is no separation between rich and poor, human and machinery, and animal and child. To us, a Utopia abolishes all architectural elements that enables a social distinction between rich and poor. Our Utopia eradicates townships from the grip of redlining and removes the presence of social hierarchy from the atmosphere of the town. This Utopia treats the community as a collective, where residents value the principles of respect, honesty, and equality. This attitude translates into the architecture, where building, man, and nature seamlessly collides into one another, collapsing into a singularity, where there are no divisions. This hostel-like architecture blends all aspects of living into open spaces, allowing for people within the community to communicate, engage, and collaborate openly together. Here in our utopia, nature and humans are not separate and the animals, forestry, and growing roots do not need to be afraid of human presence but rather actively engage and participate in their everyday lives. In this utopia, machinery takes the backburner and individuals choose to connect in person rather than through black screens. Grids are a language of the past, preventing economic subdivisions from forming within the town and rather promotes a welcoming environment through the architecture's connectedness to the land, as if everything was a neural network connecting human and plant life. Curvilinear and open design is used to further support the concept of the collective, where everyone and everything is connected, as if it was a singular body. Here there is a collective consciousness, where no one is better than you, and you are no better than anyone else. Done in collaboration with Julia Kazubowski