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Califia Sketchbook Design CompetitionCalifia is envisioned as a world-class real estate development and model ecocity - a true first of its kind in North America.
As a comprehensive mixed-use micro-city model, the project will combine a variety of residential configurations with a full complement of civic, retail, and commercial spaces.
Califia will synergize leading-edge green building design, advanced energy, communications, and technology systems, and innovative social frameworks integrated with exquisite natural environments to create third millennium human habitats.
This bold project draws upon the unique high-yield resources of the San Francisco Bay Area, an evolutionary hothouse and home to many of the top researchers, entrepreneurs and institutions who are already building a sustainable world.
Califia will bring the fruits of this diverse and world-changing culture into a high-profile living example of a new urban lifestyle, a better way to live in permanent sustainability with each other.
The purpose of developing the Califia Sketchbook Design Competition is to express to a wide variety of people what life will be like in Califia, a proposed next generation eco-city.
People from around the world are invited to enter a conceptual sketch conveying their view of "slices of life" within Califia, revealing smarter ways of building, powering, and maintain
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