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Explore Archigram's iconic Walking City, a 1960s mobile megastructure that could stride across continents. In this video we dissect its daring form, kinetic function, and visionary aesthetic, and consider its lasting impact on speculative architecture and contemporary design thinking. 🌆🚶‍♂️

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00:00 - In the throes of post-war optimism, a collective of British visionaries called Archegram imagined c
00:09 - the Walking City, sketched by Ron Heron in 1964, redefined urbanism as a kinetic organism.
00:16 - Form, the structure consists of a towering, latticework hexagonal core often compared to a giant in
00:27 - capped with pivoting joints that grant the city the ability to stride over any terrain. The outer s
00:37 - all linked by a network of exposed trusses and exposed pneumatic tubes. This skeletal geometry crea
00:45 - as if the city were a living exoskeleton. Function, the Walking City was conceived as a
00:50 - self-sustaining, nomadic habitat for a mobile populace. Its interior modules could be reconfigured
00:56 - on the fly, allowing for offices, schools, or residential units to be swapped in response
01:02 - to shifting needs. The hydraulic legs provided the capability to relocate in response to climate
01:07 - change, resource scarcity, or geopolitical shifts, making the city a responsive platform rather than
01:13 - a static edifice. Power would be generated by kinetic harvesters on the leg joints and
01:18 - solar laminated surfaces, feeding a central nucleus that regulated climate, water, and communicatio
01:27 - optimistic palette of the 1960s, saturated blues, reds, and yellows against stark white line work.
01:34 - The drawings blend hand-inked technical detail with collage-like shortcuts, photographic cutouts of
01:43 - simultaneously industrial and utopian. The aesthetic is deliberately theatrical,
01:49 - celebrating the spectacle of a metropolis that can walk, hop, and even dance. Though never built, t
01:58 - inspiring robotic construction studies, modular housing experiments, and speculative narratives
02:03 - about mobile habitats on Earth and beyond. In an era obsessed with permanence, Archeagram's
02:09 - mobile megastructure reminds us that flexibility and imagination may be the truest foundations of f