1. Circulation -
The higher up you are in the building the more open your field of view is. The lowe floors, street/sea level are quite dark with tall visual boundaries and a definite sense of constriction, in the top floors, however there is access to open views and more a sense of freedom
Entrance to the islands is highly regulated by tolls. The tolls are meant to be prohibitively expensive for those who don’t ‘belong’ there – the idea taken from the $50 toll bridge to Burj Alarab hotel in Dubai. Those who work in the islands are encouraged to live onsite rather than commute. Their lives are rather like the crews of a cruise ship. Their entrances and exits to the building are different from those of the Residents and Guests. The lowest floor of the building, known as the docks is where residents keep their boats, though those in the penthouse are increasingly using the roof heliport as an exit.
As I’ve mentioned, the main artery of a vertically oriented space is the elevator. The elevators go directly from the docks to the top floor then drop off the other residents on the way down. Service elevators keep staff separate from Residents and Guests.
2. Laws
National Laws:
• The 28th Amendment – defines marriage as a bond between a biological XY Male and a biological XX Female
• The 29th Amendment – life begins at conception of egg and sperm
• Tax cuts for Motherhood
Local Laws
• You must pay $60 to enter the Islands
• You must separate trash into compostable and recyclable items
• Non-compostable or recyclable items are prohibited from sale
• Tax on imported, and non-sustainable food
Social Code
• Don’t take the elevator if you’re on floors 1 – 10
• You need to make at least a million dollars a year to live in the top five floors
• Don’t engage in a relationship (sexual, business, platonic, or romantic) without establishing clear roles and boundaries first
3. Blank Space
The lower floors are a blank space for the Residents on the top floors. Similarly, the top floors are a blank space for the bottom dwellers that don’t have clear reason to venture up. The rest of the country (red states, fly over country) is a blank space. The average city resident knows more about Morocco than Minnesota.