Some way of escaping the Dubai heat... Climate control in rooms, and maybe "chill-out" rooms in other parts of the building.
Complete noise insulation between apartments, and within each apartment a room that is noise-insulated from the rest.
Quiet discos!
Complete noise insulation between apartments, and within each apartment a room that is noise-insulated from the rest.
Don't limit it to appartments please! Schools should be soundproof as well and they shouldn't place chalk boards against the wall, all you hear on the other side is TAP TAP TAP!
The city layouts should be organized and planned centrally, rather then organically. Roads should be symmetric and sensible. Districts of the city might have organized architectural themes as the place would be largely multi-cultural. One should expect to see buildings from every imaginable country in aspergia, but clumped together enough so that it looks like you are travelling hundreds of miles within blocks.
Schools should allow specialization of course work early. As long as a student can justify a career by his special interest, he should be free to persue it for at least half his day. If I am in High School and I know I want to be a history proffesor, its not sensible that I'm not taking any history courses, or only one a day.
Don't forget neo-classicalism. Yes, we should do away with the modernist concept
Glass+Steel=Box
And there would be a Museum of Great Autistics, that one could go and learn of the numerous examples in history, and perhaps in time even a few artifacts from them.
No educational seperation, no grade levels, no pre/grade/high school or college/university school levels. Have all forms of learning under one roof
Instead have schools of learning with classes seperated by what is taught in the classes and each student choices what to learn and can move on from one class to another class at any time progressing at their own pace.
There should also be a general class which would consist mostly of information gather to understand what the other classes are about where the students could attend and ask questions like "what class would I need to attend so I can understand the basics of quantom physics?" and get answers like "to learn the basics of quantom physics you would need to attend Quantom Physics 101".
Every class would consist of laptops attached to the desk with highspeed internet access. There would be no blackboard with choak instead there would be a giant flat panel touchscreen display with highspeed internet access used with a digetal pen to both write if needed with buttons on it act as a substitude as mouse buttons.
Every laptop would have giant headphones so each student could listen to music on their laptop if they so wish and tune out the teacher.
That would probably not work in something of the size we're talking about here. Could a school of a few hundred people really support a class such as "Part-of-Speech-Labelling Algorithms in Prolog" or a class in applied psychoacoustics?
shadow, count me in :lol:
Does it have to be an island? I've got nothing against them, but it seems they're exorbitantly expensive. Wouldn't a gated community do just as well?
Alison
Na we should go for totally new approch to archatecture design and create our own unique look to things.
In my last published novel "Androgyny" (sci/fi) I had the buildings built down into the ground, the opposite of skyscrapers. The ground above was kept as a sort of maintained open parkland. Each unit was soundproofed by the natural earth around it. There was a subway which linked all of these buildings to each other and to the city itself, which was also built underground. In my imagined buildings, there were flat screen television sets which could be left on all the time and attached to a camera which projected the parklands above, like a window on the outside, or the inhabitants could put anything they liked on the television ie ocean vistas, mountains, etc.
Alison
An Island for aspies to live on? Would you think that would work, I mean would a whole bunch of aspies get along with each other?
I never really sat down and talked to an aspie, I don't know how a real life experience would be. I know my dad and I don't get along very well (he's aspie)
From this angle I'm just wondering. When I brought this topic up most people said it would be a disaster (meaning for aspies to live closely)
I have no idea, honestly. It's just what I heard.
no
i still believe there must be a profit driven incentive for this venture.. :roll:
I agree it isn't working, the influence I get about aspies living together from my NT family got me to ask this question.
I have no evidence or anything, neither do they, nor have I tried it, perhaps it would work!