Land is our planet’s scarcest resource. With all the combined advances in our civilizations and their respective technologies, we have yet as a society to fully understand our precarious situation within our diminishing livable planetary surface. We also live today within a world in constant stages of change. With rapid population growth on a global scale, and its resulting increases in urban density, our available usable living space is greatly becoming smaller and our lives more crowded and condensed. Following upon our urban centers, this thesis aims at exploring the effects of these global phenomena of overcrowding and overpopulation especially within the time remaining before we, as part of a developed society, witness the ground below our feet gradually disappear. Montreal City is one developed world urban center ready to receive this next evolutionary step in urban growth and it is historically no stranger to architectural experimentation. Expanding the city’s infrastructures through the third dimension will allow greater freedom in the urban sculpture of this future face of our growing urban worlds. This will be the insertion of a new population-absorbing building and urban typology. This will be the return of the megastructure and the revival of an old visionary architectural language that will advance the exploration of the impact of growth and urban concentration.

Land is our planet’s scarcest resource. With all the combined advances in our civilizations and their respective technologies, we have yet as a society to fully understand our precarious situation within our diminishing livable planetary surface. We also live today within a world in constant stages of change. With rapid population growth on a global scale, and its resulting increases in urban density, our available usable living space is greatly becoming smaller and our lives more crowded and condensed. Following upon our urban centers, this thesis aims at exploring the effects of these global phenomena of overcrowding and overpopulation especially within the time remaining before we, as part of a developed society, witness the ground below our feet gradually disappear. Montreal City is one developed world urban center ready to receive this next evolutionary step in urban growth and it is historically no stranger to architectural experimentation. Expanding the city’s infrastructures through the third dimension will allow greater freedom in the urban sculpture of this future face of our growing urban worlds. This will be the insertion of a new population-absorbing building and urban typology. This will be the return of the megastructure and the revival of an old visionary architectural language that will advance the exploration of the impact of growth and urban concentration.

A produção e a reprodução dos espaços periféricos da cidade de São Paulo são organizadas e realizadas dentro da lógica capitalista, caracterizada por uma permanente especulação imobiliária fortalecida pelo déficit habitacional e pela necessidade de moradia, bem como pelo sonho da casa própria. As escassas políticas públicas de habitação voltadas para as classes menos favorecidas, juntamente com o oportunismo de algumas pessoas, geram uma ocupação periférica marcada pela presença de loteamentos clandestinos e irregulares, como o que acontece no Distrito do Jaraguá, região noroeste da cidade de São Paulo. Nesse distrito, destaca-se nessa atividade, a Associação dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra de São Paulo (ATSTSP), coordenada por um atual vereador da mesma cidade e que deve em grande parte, sua eleição ao cargo executivo, aos associados da Associação, que depositaram seus votos como agradecimento, por ter conseguido comprar um lote, ou por ter a esperança de consegui-lo. Quando o Estado não cumpre seu compromisso em relação à habitação, abre um precedente para a formação de associações que fazem uso da necessidade da população para conseguir vantagens políticas e econômicas. / The production and the reproduction of the outlying spaces of the city of São Paulo are organized and accomplished inside of the capitalist logic, characterized by a permanent real state speculation strengthened by the habitation deficit and for the dwelling need, as well as for the dream of the own house. The scarce public politics of habitation directed to the less favored classes, together with the opportunism of some people, generate an outlying occupation characterized by the presence of clandestine and irregular territory division, as what it happens in the District of Jaraguá, northwest area of São Paulo city. In that district the Association of the Workers Without Earth of the State of São Paulo (ATSTSP) stands out in that activity, coordinated by a current political representant of the same city and that it largely owes, its election to the executive position, to the associated of the Association, that they deposit its votes as gratefulness, for having gotten to buy a lot, or for having the hope of getting it. When the State doesn\'t execute its commitment in relation to the habitation, he opens a precedent for the formation of associations that makes use of population\'s need to get political and economic advantages.

A produção e a reprodução dos espaços periféricos da cidade de São Paulo são organizadas e realizadas dentro da lógica capitalista, caracterizada por uma permanente especulação imobiliária fortalecida pelo déficit habitacional e pela necessidade de moradia, bem como pelo sonho da casa própria. As escassas políticas públicas de habitação voltadas para as classes menos favorecidas, juntamente com o oportunismo de algumas pessoas, geram uma ocupação periférica marcada pela presença de loteamentos clandestinos e irregulares, como o que acontece no Distrito do Jaraguá, região noroeste da cidade de São Paulo. Nesse distrito, destaca-se nessa atividade, a Associação dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra de São Paulo (ATSTSP), coordenada por um atual vereador da mesma cidade e que deve em grande parte, sua eleição ao cargo executivo, aos associados da Associação, que depositaram seus votos como agradecimento, por ter conseguido comprar um lote, ou por ter a esperança de consegui-lo. Quando o Estado não cumpre seu compromisso em relação à habitação, abre um precedente para a formação de associações que fazem uso da necessidade da população para conseguir vantagens políticas e econômicas. / The production and the reproduction of the outlying spaces of the city of São Paulo are organized and accomplished inside of the capitalist logic, characterized by a permanent real state speculation strengthened by the habitation deficit and for the dwelling need, as well as for the dream of the own house. The scarce public politics of habitation directed to the less favored classes, together with the opportunism of some people, generate an outlying occupation characterized by the presence of clandestine and irregular territory division, as what it happens in the District of Jaraguá, northwest area of São Paulo city. In that district the Association of the Workers Without Earth of the State of São Paulo (ATSTSP) stands out in that activity, coordinated by a current political representant of the same city and that it largely owes, its election to the executive position, to the associated of the Association, that they deposit its votes as gratefulness, for having gotten to buy a lot, or for having the hope of getting it. When the State doesn\'t execute its commitment in relation to the habitation, he opens a precedent for the formation of associations that makes use of population\'s need to get political and economic advantages.