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This circular plan is divided into four sectors by a vertical and a horizontal axis. Each sector differs from the others in the type of work exercised there (mental or manual) and the form of living of its residents (individual or communal). The different combinations of work to living types are the following:

Sector one: communal manual labor

Sector two: individual manual labor

Sector three: communal mental labor

Sector four: individual mental labor 

Inhabitants of this place are divided in two groups, juniors and seniors, which mingle in all sectors. Residents of each sector shift clockwise every season change, completing the whole cycle in one year.

  The four programs that result from the different combinations of living and working and which would take most of the space of each of the sectors are: farming in sector one, individual workshops in sector two, libraries in sector three, and individual rooms-studios in sector four.

In the overlapping space between manual and mental labor sectors there are refectories while between individual and community living sectors there are baths.

   At the centre, taking an equal proportion of space from each sector there is the central church surrounded by the cemetery. This central church opens in the astrological key dates of the year (the two equinoxes and two solstices) for the residents to swap sectors. It communicates with each sector overground by four gates and underground through crypts of relics. Besides the church which functions as the gyratory core of the system, there is also a local smaller church for each sector.

 

 

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Natasha Sandmeier said:

If you are going to mark the areas of specificity, i would suggest instead of marking them simply with TONE and TEXT, modify them ARCHITECTURALLY, FORMALLY and/or SPATIALLY.
A label doesn't make space.

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