http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMilXX4Iu-k&feature=related

Great images Emil!

What should I do in Toronto?

Here are a link to a website about a house underground... http://www.williamlishman.com/underground.htm

...and a bunch of different pictures:

Images

Attached are hypothetical site images (labeled and unlabeled) that are defined by the outermost streets that the current underground meets - Sherbrooke to Saint Jacques, De la Montagne to Saint Andre.

Obviously these are too zoomed out to see too much but I am too lazy to puzzle together images in photoshop right now ... maybe later.

Bo did you want to look for images of Montreal in section so that we can get a better idea of what is below us? Do we have any friends in geology? I feel like they would know where to get this information.

See this pdf for map of underground
http://www.stm.info/english/info/souterrain2008.pdf

Links to other Indoor Cities:

PATH (Toronto)

http://www.toronto.ca/path/

Tokyo Midtown (Japan)

http://www.tokyo-midtown.com/en/about/index.html

Roppongi Hills (Japan)

http://www.roppongihills.com/en/

Plus 15 (Calgary)

http://www.calgary.ca/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_527194_0_0_18/Plus+15.htm

Minneapolis Skywalk (USA)

http://minneapolis.about.com/cs/shoppingservice/a/skyways.htm

Meeting Minutes - October 20, 2009

Site:Montreal's Underground - "MOLE-Treal"

Concepts: infrastructure, connection, megastructure, root systems, "plug into the city", horizontal rather than vertical urbanism, subterranean urbanism

Elements: Program (undefined?) spaces, horizontal connecting elements (metro = elevator),
vertical connections to Montreal and its nutrients (light)

Questions: What is a skyscraper for Montreal? What are "views" in the underground? What can Moletreal give to Montreal?(we are taking light, we could give them geothermal - like mutualism in biology)

ToDo:

Emil is going to look up images of things that connect for nutrients (plants, root system, oil drills, tunnels, ....); he will try to find both organic and linear examples

I am going to make an image of the surface over the boundaries of the existing underground so we can see were we can touch the surface.

Bo - do whatever - make it sexy, but mainstream.