Ideal city

Ideal city is an experience that is never boring and always challenges one’s mind. It can never be fully explored and understood as it constantly changes adapting to different situations and needs of its inhabitants.

In an ideal city the two main things that people usually choose from: living in the city with traffic, noise, crowds of people, however with anything you might need accessible at pretty much any time, and living in the suburbs where it is very quiet and everyone has a big garden of their own, meet. A house is a boundary: city on one side and suburbs on the other.

An ideal city is an experience, a set of spaces that satisfies needs and desires of different people. It surprises with strange, unexpected spaces as well as contains very familiar and comfortable ones.

A passage in between the buildings; not very wide, rather narrow. It’s very quiet. You can almost hear the eco of the sound you heels make hitting the ground as you walk. A hint of very bright and warm light is showing from around the corner. It’s not the only way to go in this labyrinth of passages but it’s somehow very attractive…

As you turn the corner the silence suddenly disappears as the noise of a crowd of people takes its place. The labyrinth ends here – there’s a courtyard.

It’s not a very big courtyard, just about big enough for a little market. A couple of stalls, but rather lots of people around. The space feels very bright; even though it’s surrounded by buildings from all four sides, they are only a few stories high. Are you supposed to be here? It feels quite private as if the space belongs to a community you are not a part of.

Another passage. This one seems to be sloping up and buildings become lower and lower as you go further. A brief moment of peace and quiet goes away quickly as voices of people get louder and louder. You finally reach the end of the passage. Oh, how unexpected! You are on the roof!

Is it really a roof? There’s a whole new city on here with its squares and passage ways, parks and streets, buildings and courtyards they create.