Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Paris--a global warming utopia!
A French architecture firm Collectif Et Alors proposes Paris Utopia after global warming effect on the city. Yannick Gourvil and Cecile Leroux, the imaginative architects from the firm, shares their imagination of Paris in 2100 through their creative and beautiful images. The images reveal that the city will confront the global warming with realistic solutions like community gardens providing citizens fruits and vegetables while giving cool natural shades from the hot sun. The images portray Paris lush with green like a paradise. What is most fascinating about these images is that they are realistic solutions that are feasible, yet they are "fantastic and fun."
The project imagines a climate fiction of hotter climate of Paris and unveils an opportunity “to reinvent our urban lifestyles.” The Seine is transformed into occupiable spaces and medium for transportation. Seine will be used for public transportation via water-taxis and for transporting construction materials like wood or harvests of local farmers. The river will accommodate recreational spaces like swimming pools and will be used for tidal energy resource. The floating market on the Seine will be hosted by local gardeners to sell their produce directly in the heart of Paris. The means of transportation is developed in a more-sustainable way--cable cars and blimps are utilized as public transportation. Amazing, right?
Although these utopian drawings are merely imagination of two architects, I think that these images give us an insight of optimistic future of global warming when different disciplinary work together. I appreciate the architects’ optimistic take on the global warming compared to usual negative connotation which global warming is addressed as. The images show us that if we are willing to change and to take actions, the warm earth might be actually a better place to live than the one we have right now—if we follow these images as our guidelines.
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