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Rural Condenser
Francisco Escapil
Rural Condenser
Francisco Escapil

The "Rural Condenser" series takes this new technology as a driving force to generate an extensive sequence of pieces that seek to capture the essence of an architecture that breaks with the binomial of countryside and city, imagining a mutualism between both worlds.

From the perspective of Frank Lloyd Wright with Broadacre City, through Fuhimiko Maki's Agricultural City, to Andrea Branzi's Agronica, various visionaries have rethought the logic of coexistence between the rural and the urban. These projects propose compact and self-sufficient communities that integrate productive networks into the urban fabric, or vice versa, creating a symbiotic relationship between production and daily life.

This approach puts crucial issues on the agenda such as food security, the decentralization of large cities and the reduction of the ecological footprint. Imagining a self-sustaining micro agricultural community requires reviewing traditional agricultural infrastructures and re-imagining them in coexistence with other urban infrastructures.