Living Essential, Weightlessly(LEW)

You will be off the ground gracefully.
You will embrace your deepest fear as your closest partner.
Only by that, you can be free from all forces, restraints and bindings pulling you down to the earth.
You will still interact with the rest.
You will be supplied from those. You will experience and be inspired by that. Yet, you will be solid when you’re in the air, not when you’re grounded on the earth. You are secure not by your heaviness but by weightlessness. By living essential, weightlessly.

Living Essential, Weightlessly(LEW)

Has any skyscraper ever genuinely conquered the air?
Has any building ever confronted the fear not hided from it?
Has architecture ever truly embraced the vulnerability, or strong desire of human existence?

Living Essential, Weightlessly

You will be off the ground gracefully.
You will embrace your deepest fear as your closest partner.
Only by that, you can be free from all forces, restraints and bindings pulling you down to the earth.

LEW + WGC

Worm's eye view from ground of LEW at Welwyn Garden City. The first site for LEW would be Welwyn Garden City, a town, founded by Sir Ebenezer Howard, located 31 km from Kings Cross. It is a commuter town of London. Other possible sites would be commuter towns within 40 km radius from London. Infrastructure of magnet on hexagonal grid will intervene and segregate the ground and the air.

The Way to Live Essentially

In the beginning, disc would be locked at highest height of assigned zone. As you adding up your life, it would keep moving down. Residents can fill up with heavy furniture if they want cozier interior, or they can use inflatable furniture to minimize weight to increase level of privacy.

Dimension of Living Disc for LEW

Diametre for magnet is 3m and for standard living disc starts from 4 metre which gives the most ideal stability for living space above it. However, the size of disc varies as preference of occupants and they can take risk if they want to live in larger space. But they would better be good at balancing, since the larger disc is, the shakier it would be.

Structural Demonstration of LEW

There are main structural supports laid out as hexagonal grid of super-magnetic infrastructure erected on the ground. Magnet discs are inter-connected to nearest two magnets with reinforced wire for giving tensions of pulling each other. On top of each nodes of grid, living units are floating.

Living situates on super-insulated flooring laid over superconductivity discs. Every disc needs to be cooled endlessly with circulation of radiant liquid nitrogen to be locked within magnetic force.

Bird eye's view of LEW

Man's Increasing Vertical Mobility

There are three chunks of air zone based on levels of privacy:
Lower air, middle air and upper air. The heavier living gets, the lower it would sink down
Lifestyle is weaved by aerial transportation. All residents, from younger to older, must learn how to fly with personal flight.

Distances between Typology of Aerial Architecture and User

As technology of arial transportation developed, handier, smaller and quicker, distance between typology of aerial architecture and user is shortened dramatically. With jetpack, landing and taking off could happen from your living room.

What Are You Looking for Up In the Air

They look for somewhere with complete isolation from all noises, violation and disturbance from the ground. They are willing to go against natural born fear to reach this level of privacy. Thus fear can be cast in front of desire.