Arcosanti

Yavapai County

04-03140

Arcosanti is an experimental city based on an urban utopia. It was founded in 1970 by the architect Paolo Soleri in the desert of Arizona ( USA), about 100 km north of Phoenix. The plan provided for a capacity of 5,000 inhabitants upon completion. The concept aims to compactness of the houses and is so little plot claim. Paolo Soleri is the inventor of Arcology ( architecture & ecology ) movement, which he demonstrated in this city.

Soleri developed in the planning of the city, " Wright's theories of building and living in nature further, esotericism included, and brought them into the time of the oil crisis and civilization skepticism. "

In the first forty years of the project around 7000 people for a shorter or longer period of time have lived in Arcosanti and contributed to the city, where it's always " not only concerns the construction, but a utopia community, alienated life " went. They have, however, implemented by 2012, only about 1% of the original plan. The plant consists of about a dozen buildings, from those required for the heating and ventilation concept greenhouses below the plant whose exhaust is run through the houses, only two have been completed and they are not sufficiently used to heat so the houses.

The city has around 25,000 visitors a year, the economic base is the sale of handicrafts, which achieves a budget of about one million dollars a year. In the fall of 2011, Soleri moved back at the age of 92 years of all the features and handed over the leadership of the parent company of the City project Cosanti Foundation at the Architecture Professor Jeff Stein. He died in April 2013.