HLP_HyperLoop
Architecture Competition
2020
'Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. The environment is everything.’
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Michael Heizer
Wild horizons and barren moors. Various land-art artists have already explored Nevada wasteland environment, highlighting the contrast between human touch and arid nature and promoting the embrace of a savage site condition state to create monumental natural-based art masterpieces.
Acknowledging the identity of Mojave desert, the project aim is to create a balanced dichotomy between human futuristic technology and mother nature. Respecting the landscape, Hyperloop Campus will threat the site in the most sustainable way: land-art likewise, campus buildings will be settled underground in order to elevate the essence of the desert and to generate natural insulation to avoid high temperatures.
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On top of these complex underground geometries stands the Hyperloop, the heart of the entire project. The testing tube is a landmark that determinates the mark of the man on the earth, it can be seen from the inside of all the subterranean facilities. Hyperloop will be a giant land-art structure that everyone will recognize as their own achievement as a human being.
Hyperloop will represent a new technological era for mankind, it will surpass every geopolitical barrier: like the Tower of Babel, whose purpose was to bond all different populations under a strong icon, this technological prodigy will be identified as a new symbol that will break bonders and frontiers.