42

What are we searchign for? peace and fulfillment.A life of friendship and love, a place where we feel we fit both as an individual in a community.

We live in a monochramitic culture, but there is no one answer. No single answer can satisfy our diversity of people and landscape, experience and dreams.

How do we find our place to fit when there is only one option for living?
The ubiquity of middle-class America, poor-America, wealthy-America stifling individual needs and creativity. The standard line up of Tarets, Walmarts, department stores and strip malls display the same goods continent-wide.

Connected by facebook, RPGs, & youtube, sub-communities of virtual reality take shape. But true happiness is found in the comfort of friends, life satisfacation in sharing with others; a depth of relationship only found in close face-to-face encounters.

So we dream of small communities of networks of people, catering to the needs of each group. Similar to interconnected self-sufficient retirement communities, we establish a variety of cultures celebrated for their differences.

As the Hitchhiker's super-computer suggested, is the answer to all of life's questions really 42? Are their 42 answers to life's demands?

Veterans, elderly, nomads, farmers: 42 lifestyle choices; 42 cultures; 42 building typologies.

A spectrum of choices instead of just one.