Living Crystal

This year amongst the Honorable Mentions awardees of the eVolo Magazine Competition was the Quantum Skyscraper project created by Russian architects Ivan Maltsev and Artem Melnik.

We think about our impact on the environment more and more often. Man’s need for natural and energy resources increases, this leads to the disruption of the balance between the desire (need) and nature`s ability to restore them. We think about it, because our actions “now” can seriously affect the lives of future generations, their thinking and dreams of the future. There is a great number of scenarios for unraveling of the plot of the future. And, in most scenarios the “energy” factor plays a vital role. Thus, many questions concerning energy production and storage arise.

We think that people will have more opportunities to return to balance and move to a new “energy” level without any influences. The latest and safe (for nature and man) power generation and accumulation technologies, transport, the AI ( artificial intelligence) and medicine will be the determining factor in technological development of society in the future. For example, new discoveries in physics will help compensate for the lack of energy and use new sources (safe ones), open and use new materials with fundamentally new physical properties that can be used everywhere. All this will give birth to a new aesthetic revolution in the minds of people and, of course, architects and designers.

In our view, all these factors will affect the appearance of multifunctional research facilities (MNCs), which will hold all sorts of research for our future. These will be hightech systems, in which the results of research and energy, matter and space will look like wizardry or magic.

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Text and Illustrations: Ivan Maltsev, Artem Melnik