M MELBOURNOMADIS 2030 Brief:
2030
Some say the peak-oil event of 2013 has reverted our extremely energy consumptive society back to the dark ages of the pre-industrial era. We rely soley on the earth’s natural cyclical energies to produce and satisfy our physical needs.
Precedents:
bucky Cybernetics
Our intellectual needs on the other hand are expressed through our remote electonical devices. We communicate thorugh these silent waves and in the invisible spaces we create entire new worlds and thoughts and sciences. The need to get together to build and expresses grand monumental and phenomenological structures has been replaced by ephermeral, immediate ad-hoc meetings orchestrated through the network. The entire structure of inner city planning and program is disintergrating. All aspects of life are evolving and shifting in ever-unpredictable ways.
Archigram’s cushicle
Rolf Disch Heliotrope
The office building typology is affected to such a degree that the Developer Grocon Pty. Ltd. have asked me to re-program the upper extremities of their CBD towers to accomodate for this shift.
Recycled/Found/Garbage Materials Are Pooled together/Provided
The nomad enters the building
Dymaxion House Bucky dome
Dymaxion wife?
Dymaxion car
He is informed on which floor his tribe can be found
The Disintergration of the city mobility: is where change is the only permanence/and the only permanece in change is needbased. More an embodiment of concept than a structure, the electronomad intends to create a new virtual environment through biomimicry in the landsape that the nomad occupies. everything is nature - even office buildings.
Bourke Shanty tower program area / person total area HOUSING 3.1 m2 1,025 m2 OFFICE m2 m2 EDUCATION 0.5 m2 250 m2 HEALTH CARE 0.1 m2 25 m2 INDUSTRY 5 m2 1,250 m2 PARKING m2 m2 SHOPPING 0.5 m2 125 m2 LEISURE 0.2 m2 50 m2 WASTE MANAGEMENT 2 m2 500 m2 ENERGY PRODUCTION 3.0 m2 750 m2 WATER 3.5 m2 750 m2 AGRICULTURE 0.5 m2 125 m2 FOREST 0.0 m2 m2
TOTAL
4,850 m2
man, techngology, connection, electronics, and nature are all intertwined. Detailed section 1:20
The technology gets so small as to be almost invisible- the technology of memory. As electronics gfet more and more sophisticated, man can become more and more primitive. a new inviisble form of urbanism coulb be mapped in this manner. an invisible city?
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section 1:500
OFFICE
80%
PARKING
OPEN STUDIO RETAIL
exploration:
STUDIO PARKING RETAIL
8% 7% 5%
Skin: