Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67 was built for the Canadian Pavilion at the 1967 World Expo as experimental housing in dense urban environments, consisting of 158 identical pre-fabricated modules stacked in various combinations, all connected by steel cables. The original blueprint called for 1,200 homes, but the lack of funding resulted in a much toned down construction.
At the time, it would have cost around $45-million for a community of 1,200 families, with each house having their own roof terrace. Safdie teamed up with Neoscape to show how the original master plan for Habitat 67 should have looked like using Unreal Engine, called Hillside. However, due to their size, fitting this Millennium Falcon home theater into one of these modules is still out of the question.
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It began with a journey through North America to study housing. I came to the conclusion that suburbs weren’t feasible in the long term. They consumed too much land, energy, and transportation. If we could reinvent the apartment building to offer the quality of life of a house, with a garden, privacy, and access from an open street, people would be more willing to live in cities,” said Safdie.
