Charles Simonds : schwebende städte und andere architekturen / floating cities and other architectures

Floating Cities originated in 1972 from Simonds’ desire to provide everyone with their own ideal imaginary dwelling place.
In the 1970s his thought evolved into Floating Cities.The idea took the form of a re-arrangeable architectural model (a toy), diagrams, photomontages, and a fictive text that Simonds wrote entitled “Floating Cities/Maritime Communities” in 1978. The works explored configurations of communities as a means of finding analogies with the evolution of simple aquatic organisms that exhibited early signs of specialization. Simonds developed the idea in response to news articles that appeared documenting that shipbuilders, facing a slumping market, began constructing factories in high technology locations and floating them to parts of the world where they would have been more expensive and difficult to produce.