Arcosanti

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Arcosanti
Main building and former home of Soleri
Main building and former home of Soleri
Location in Arizona
Arcosanti (Arizona)
Arcosanti
Arcosanti
Basic data
Foundation : 1970
State : United States
State : Arizona
County : Yavapai County
Coordinates : 34 ° 21 ′  N , 112 ° 6 ′  W Coordinates: 34 ° 21 ′  N , 112 ° 6 ′  W
Time zone : Mountain Standard Time ( UTC − 7 )
Residents : 90 (as of March 27, 2010)
Population density : 1,500 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 0.06 km 2  (approx. 0 mi 2 )
Height : 1139 m
Postal code : 86333
Area code : +1 928
FIPS : 04-03140
GNIS ID : 38221
Website : www.arcosanti.org

Arcosanti is an experimental city based on a city ​​utopia . It was founded in 1970 by the architect Paolo Soleri in the Arizona desert ( USA ), a good 100 km north of Phoenix . The plan envisaged a capacity of 5,000 residents upon completion. The concept aims at the compactness of the houses and should therefore take up little building ground. Paolo Soleri is the founder of the arcology movement (suitcase word from architecture and ecology ), which he demonstrates in this city. Formally, the city is an unincorporated community .

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

The city, 2007

In the first forty years of the project, around 7,000 people lived in Arcosanti for a shorter or longer period of time and worked on the city, always with "not just building, but a utopia of communal, alienated life". However, by 2012 they had only carried out around 1% of the original plan.

The facility consists of a little over a dozen structures, of the greenhouses below the facility, which are required for the ventilation and heating concept and whose exhaust air is supposed to pass through the houses, only two have been completed and they are also not used sufficiently to heat the houses.

The city has around 25,000 visitors a year, the economic base is the sale of handicrafts, which has a budget of around one million dollars a year. In autumn 2011, at the age of 92, Soleri retired from all functions and handed over the management of the parent company of the Cosanti Foundation urban project to architecture professor Jeff Stein . Soleri died in April 2013.

Web links

Commons : Arcosanti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b History. Archived from the original on February 28, 2010 ; Retrieved October 8, 2017 (Arcosanti project website).
  2. a b Jörg Häntzschel: The dreamer of Arcosanti . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 11, 2013, p. 13 .
  3. ^ A b Michael Tortorello: Arcosanti: An Early Eco-City Faces the Future. In: New York Times. February 15, 2012, accessed October 8, 2017 .