As I wrote in the piece, Paradigm, Found, I started exploring one of the basic design elements of nature found in the Fibonacci sequence. Everywhere we look there are clues to its prevalence in everything and all things. In the end we find it in proportion to harmonic convergence with the Golden triangle and the natural order of life.
In this message we want to explore how this sequencing in nature becomes an inspiration and transformational parti1 for the design of urban and rural communities throughout the world, particularly given an up-and-coming transportation transit form. In the event that you have not heard or read about magnetic levitation system generically known as the hyperloop it is suppose to become twice as fast is the fastest land train in the world. The hyperloop promises to be very quick and presumably a safeway to move over land masses via a vacuumed air free tunnel allowing pods to move through the tunnel. The idea has several centuries of history.
Technological advances presumably have mad a concept, now a potential game changer. For years I’ve read of countless regions countries intercity to intracity travel, investigating possible routes to put in place all over the world, not just North America. There are several companies vying for the top spot. I really don’t like how railroads in the 19th century with multiple rail widths were finally invented, designed and implemented, given a diverse set of parameters to populate continents with trains, although I have read the marvel of train history.
My question to the advocates of this proposed and minimally tested venture is to know if it will be a technological leap or in retrospect we will see it as a fleeting fad that we may call hyperloopy?
If you recall in the 1950’s in the United States of America, most likely inspired by the Autobahn, the high-speed, limited-access modern national expressway system in Germany, President Dwight Eisenhower ushered in his administration a continental road system known to us today as the “The Interstate Highway System”.
Enter the 21st century
The proposed magnetically levitating Hyperloop is aiso a proposed high-speed transportation system, for both public and goods transport, however for a non-wheeled transit system. There are three essential components comprising the design tubes, pods, and terminals.
The tube is a large sealed, low-pressure system tunnel.
The pod is a coach pressurized using magnetic propulsion.
The terminal manages pod arrivals and departures.
It is the terminal aspect this message entertains, and the promise for a different treatment of the notion of a city and its potential for livability. Because a master plan of potential termination locations does not exist today in the US of A, nor on the North American continent, it is useful to sketch one:
Scaramuccia Studios Hyperloop Terminal Plan - Double Click in video
Pros for Hyperloops
move around easily
create new jobs
infrastructure investment
progressive
sustaining
no fossil fuels
750 mph proposed speed
Cons against hyperloops
hype
public relations
marketing without substance
exorbitant construction costs
tube sabotage
Virgin Hyperloop releases employees
current speed record: 288 mph - Technical U. of Munich, July, 2019
The most aggressive scheduling about goes something like this as an example for the full development of the hyper loop system:
short-term - research and development, construction permit, environmental assessment, land acquisition (present-2024);
medium-term: test track construction, high-speed tests, and certification (2023-2027);
long-term: construction of a full inter-city line (to begin in 2027).
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We could carry on talking about those in favor or of those against it. What’s the timeline and construction schedule? What is the marketing industry doing to provide unsubstantiated information through expensive newsletters? Or we could just get into the meat of the subject!
The meat of the subject are is quite straightforward investors. Holistic Healthy Hubs are required to be planned in concert with pod terminal locations throughout the North American continent, indeed the entire world given this is a global venture marketers tell us. Otherwise we are left the major hospital design quagmire of “hacking her off and squeezin’ her in”. Do not really recommend that tubular travail.
Above is a sketch of a conceptual holistic healthy hub overlaid on Roger Cesare Ferri illustration. In such an arrangement I can imagine as did Architect Ferri, the Fibonacci code as the formulating pattern in keeping with the natural order found on our planet and in our universe. Various coloring in the sketch would imply streets and buildings and water and land mass and gridded connections over and under and through the hub. Further work has been produced in the Studio that differentiates separations of the natural world in the machine world.
If we break out the three names of the proposed place we can start here.
Holistic
The first word is a “holistic”. From a medical perspective holistic means:
characterized by the treatment of the whole person, taking into account mental and social factors, rather than just the symptoms of a disease.
We culturally fail miserably in the holism of treatment. Further philosophically the meaning is
characterized by comprehension of the parts of something as intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole.
We all cherish the notion of utopian idealism no matter the where on the political spectrum we rest.
We fall short in defining a holistic ecology which understands clearly that humans and the environment act as a single system. For instance why does the world continue to frack for gas’s and oil, when a science has in no uncertain terms has provided the activity destroys the upper atmosphere? (By the way) the atmospheric CO2 for April 3, 2022 is 420.63 ppm. 2 We all realize 350 ppm (parts per million) is the earth safe spot, number, yes?
Healthy
A “healthy” place is the world in which we prohibit use of materials or elements contrary to the well-being of all citizens within a community. This would involve a myriad of chemicals ego the tens of thousands which I’ve never been tested for carcinogens and other ill affects on human life. A healthy place is the world in which we prohibit use of materials or elements contrary to the well-being of all citizens within a community. Think, no nuclear powered machines would be permitted. Manufactured components and elements that are used to maim and kill other humans would be prohibited from a healthy environment. The root word of healthy is heal, a place to allow all residence to be healed through their day to day activity.
Hub
A “hub” can be a city, town, village, hamlet, region, place or center part of any network. In an urban design setting we can look at the hubs that were created through planning initiatives in great cities like Paris or Washington DC. Hubs focus energy, radiate out power through their spokes just like a moving bicycle wheel. They do not necessarily need to be radial, that is made strictly of straight lines. As in concept sketch above the Fibonacci sequence is a great alternative to establishing connecting hubs. The nucleus of living is human interactivity and connection which a pivot center, provides.
The tastiest living environment is the soup of the holistic health hub. Your place is in this environ is heart healthy, for you, for you parents, for you children, for the animals, and for all living life. This is a world that divorces noise and pollution, parking lots and accidents replacing the habitat with justice and social well being. Notions of bullying, crime, delinquency, discrimination, drug addiction, family disintegration, homelessness, poverty and racism are eradicated by the use of form and space to guide our bodies, lift our spirits, inspire our minds, make us emotionally available, one and all.
A Zoetic Message
Would you like to live in a holistic healthy hub, seriously? A measurement of enlightenment is to see a terminal of a hyperloop outstretched as a hand to receive the pods as the terminal situates somewhere within, or tangent to, a hub. If it was a choice of avoiding war or living in peace, which hub would you seek? We must reassure ourselves those with the most power, the most money, the biggest armies, have severe mental absence to how a human is to interact with another human.
Let us remember, lest we forget and decay without rejuvenation. Earthling life is sacred.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parti_(architecture)#cite_note-medium-4
In architecture, a parti is an organizing thought or decision behind an architect's design, presented in the form of a parti diagram, parti sketch, or a simple statement.The term comes from 15th century French, in which "parti pris" meant "decision taken." The development of the parti frequently precedes the development of plan, section, and elevation diagrams.
https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2
The prospect of this kind of travel is very appealing, minus the cons you mention (and others that are likely, if the system remains capitalist). And I really appreciate the other information and thoughts about real health and connection and good sense. I wish everyone would take to heart this Zoetic Message!