Friday, January 4, 2008

Good Night



As the human race we have never made global decisions or created
Global guidelines regarding the vital part of our existence, which is a safe
and secure shelter.
The oldest, first instinct of mankind was to find, and later create, secure shelters.
In the urban reality, which is growing world wide, it is not possible any more to
even find a shelter, as the concrete walls are rising up high and the fences are
becoming denser and sharper, many people find them selves living on the streets,
exposed to the same dangers as our ancient fathers and mothers.
Collecting leafs (cardboards) and trying to create a shelter that gives them
the minimum safety possible, the Homeless people have found their place in
our consuming society, living of our waste, recycling has become a way of life.
Architecture should be a Form that expresses the Function and Structure of our
Society, like the Skin of our body, which covers all the different organs (functions)
of OUR body.
This is a global problem, which can be solved with a change of attitude alone.
As we are moving rapidly to the era of economic globalization it is important not
to leave behind the first condition, which allowed this huge growth: security and
communication. We can use the tools and the networks of this new global system
in securing our system, The Human Race.
It doesn’t matter in which God you believe in, I will still be the same as you.

The year is 2008, in Los Angeles, California.
Tonight there will be 82,000 people sleeping on the streets of Los Angeles.
The United Nations millennium indicators shows that 837 million people in the
world live in urban slums. 100 million of them are homeless, 30 million are
a drift in major urban centers world wide

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