Nudging Space was always one of my favorite arcologies that Soleri designed. More than the Hyper Building, which is too familiar as a skyscraper—Nudging Space has that more classic apse feeling. I always thought the design was especially dynamic. Yet it was never transferred into anything but a paper model that lay in Arcosanti's cafe—which I would nonetheless stare at and try to imagine at 5000x the scale. Obviously Young-Soo Kim (whom I used to work next to in the office) has been hard at work—and it shows! He does an amazing job of transferring Paolo's designs into virtual models that reflect the scale of the actual theoretical complexes.
These renderings were for an important exhibition in China that happened on December 4th. The slew of blog posts on the Arcosanti site for that week are worth looking at. I had heard rumblings of this exhibition when I was working there, and if I was still there now, I probably would have been helping out on it. While Fate had other things planned for me, it's great to see that the exhibition appears to have been a success.
Now I only hope that they can upload some higher-res renderings of this model, as they deserve much more glory than 400x200 pixels.
Congrats on the show, Maestro Soleri and fellow Arconauts! Hopefully the Chinese people will take notice, and we may see Lean Linear City and Nudging Space as yet more than just 3D models.
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