OBI Aesthetics

Basics

• The OBI buildings will have an aesthetic
• This will most likely be only one at the start (model t's can only come in black etc), but forks should eventually allow for any design
• For CEBs complex masonry like CEB Vaults and Quoin may improve aesthetic properties, as well as open up new building forms/sizes

Aesthetic 1

• Need some creative/goofy name
• How Can the OBI House Look? covered well by that page

Aesthetic 2

• Plotting Mainly by User:Eric

Concrete

• Main External Componet, and some internal areas (ones with little wall use (ie no screws or piles of outlets) )
• Can be VERY intresting aesthetic wise with Concrete 3D Printing (may require finishing as the nozzle size on those devices is...larger than 2mm

Plants

• One of the main criticism of Brutalism was the dull grey with lack of greenery/life
• Modular planters, wall planters, windowboxes, and wall gardens will fix this
• Also could be used to produce food etc
• Also PBRs could be used in an artistic manner
• Bioluminescent plants/fungi (not for lighting, short of emergency navigation only light) for art

General Principles of the Aesthetic

• A Mix of Brutalism and (post-) Postmodernism (Architecture)
• Concrete for durability, simplicity, and repeatability, but more artistic than brutalism's blocky nature
• ALSO could do many complex shapes+lattices via the concrete 3d printing
• External Areas, and Internal Public Inside Aeras can be fluid, and non blocky, but most rooms should be square-ish

Mosaics

• Most of these are rare, old, and if not old VERY expensive, especially for non-geometric art (ie a picture, not a pattern backsplash)
• With Digitally Fabricated Mosaics we should be able to put them anywhere for relitively cheap
• Main limit is tile sourceing

Internal Links

• Brutalism
• Modernisme
• Ecotecture
• Garden City Movement

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