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Escaping Systems: Architecture Beyond Familiar Ground

When architects design on water or beyond Earth, those systems are no longer available. Without fixed ground or nearby networks for energy, water, transport, and waste, architecture has to take on functions the larger city would normally provide.

Escaping Systems: Architecture Beyond Familiar Ground

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When architects design on water or beyond Earth, those systems are no longer available.

Without fixed ground or nearby networks for energy, water, transport, and waste, architecture has to take on functions the larger city would normally provide.

Cities depend on systems that already exist around them.

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When architects design on water or beyond Earth, those systems are no longer available. Without fixed ground or nearby networks for energy, water, transport, and waste, architecture has to take on functions the larger city would normally provide. Cities depend on systems that already exist around them.

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Cities depend on systems that already exist around them.

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