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BACK TO SQUARE Post-Apocalyptic architecture -Manasvi Patil
The world is back at square one. All structures, big and small, have been razed to the ground. All that remains is debris and a few lucky survivors. How will the human society start rebuilding itself? Will the architecture that emerges be an attempt to recreate the past? Or will it be something extraordinarily different. The world might tip into dingy survivalist citadels, or rise up to vibrant innovative forms as a compensation for all that has been lost. It is safe to assume that the new world would be nothing like the one now, but it would still be eerily familiar.
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In today’s fully functioning world, construction materials are mass produced, ordered and transported to the site. But in a world where all that remains of these industries is a pile of debris, where does the building material come from? With the world terrain reset, will the architecture have to go back to square one? Will there be scavenger hunts to salvage the last remaining dredges of infrastructure? Or will completely new material be used? Most probably, the post-apocalyptic architecture that first arises might be a
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