_CLOUDOPOLIS

  The Cloudopolis is envisioned as an unfolding framework that integrates virtual platforms, verdant spaces, foldable avenues, and adjustable structures. Through adaptable and sustainable infrastructure and by encompassing diverse spatial arrangements; the Cloudopolis seeks to accommodate several life forms, whether temporarily or permanently. It serves as a plug-in city overlaying existing urban landscapes or as an independent floating entity, offering a new paradigm for co-existing, intersection, continuity, and interaction between individuals. The Cloudopolis fosters versatile living conditions for inhabitants, as a continuous, nonstop, unfolding environment. Drawing inspiration from historical cities and contemporary models; works like Broadcare City, Walking City, and Nonstop City.

This thesis explores the profound mental, social, emotional, and psychological shifts resulting from the pandemic. It critically examines the humanitarian landscape post-COVID, addressing feelings of isolation, the loss of social constructs, and sensory deprivation; by envisioning a new form of living within an immersive and dynamic city. Every figure in the Cloudopolis consists of a set of rules and characters in play, a set of ethics to be followed, and intended roles assigned to each part. Every figure could transform, duplicate, repeat, and double, to perform and co-host multiple configurations at once. A figure can function as a living garden and a house sheltering people at the same time. The Cloudopolis can exist in the primary world, and in an imaginative one, it can exist on a digital base or above the clouds.