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NEW NATURE: PROJECTS
271 New Nature
Productive Boundaries Ana Gabriela Loayza Nolasco
The experience of the natural reserve is imported into the tectonic aspects of the textile factories. In a human-to-object scale of interaction, crop growing cover/facades act as a vertical alignment with changing proportions that simulate an agricultural landscape but subtly and sequentially reveal the inner processes of the industry. Consequently, they are a showcase of the short and long stages of crop growing, which are delivered for processing to the continuous intensity of textile production.
Projects 272
Rings provide an iconic standardized language in medium to high-density developed districts, where permanent users are encouraged to engage in the vertical food production system that surrounds urban crops and is surrounded by new highdensity housing blocks. Transects perform in temporality according to weather, water presence, and vegetation growth, constructing a changing image of the city for the pedestrian, yet allowing reference in the start and end notions given by food production rings and urban boundary projects.
Biotechnical Transects Koby Moreno
Center / Periphery A Sustainable Textile Factory
273 The project proposes a new kind of vertically integrated textile eco-factory that combines the sustainable cultivation of textiles with their high-tech fabrication. Using both new technologies and a new approach to sustainability, the factory becomes a public showcase, with a landscape that is an experience park for industry. This textile industrial ecopark is a blockchain-connected sequence of processing raw material, building a fiber portfolio, designing, and mass-producing high-precision clothing. It fills the fashion market’s critical need for an elevated concept of integrated production.
The project also addresses Shenzhen’s urban growth edges as a space to encode new manufacturing processes that combine agriculture and industry. These edges become a place to reinvent the fashion industry with environmentally responsible production chains. Using software to scan these boundaries, designers identify sites to allocate the facilities of the ‘new’ textile industry are identified. The architecture proposal trains neural networks (Pix2Pix) to produce new formal arrangements and functional clusters, which will host machinery and users in a periphery-center logic. In these clusters, the centers hold structuring activities in the production chain, and the periphery holds complementary or supporting activities. This hierarchy integrates architecture into the landscape and opens the fashion industry to ecotourism. The project connects the industry and landscape in a symbiotic artificial-natural relationship.
275 Center / Periphery: A Sustainable Textile Factory
Top: System image: Expansion-based formal results are arranged according to the logistic needs of textile processing. The crop-growing facade performs as a cover that unifies production clusters.
Ana Gabriela Loayza Nolasco
Bottom: The center: Periphery order is applied to the factory assemblage by enclosing heavy processes and radially opening toward outer public areas using translucent materials, temporary partitions, or grilled walls.
Right: The location of textile production hubs along Shenzhen’s UGB is also intended to provide symbiotic entrances —between technology and agriculture— ecotourist circuits in the natural protected areas.
Symbiotic Verticalities Urban Farms for Shenzhen
279 The project proposes a new kind of vertically integrated textile eco-factory that combines the sustainable cultivation of textiles with their high-tech fabrication. Using both new technologies and a new approach to sustainability, the factory becomes a public showcase, with a landscape that is an experience park for industry. This textile industrial ecopark is a blockchain-connected sequence of processing raw material, building a ‘fiber portfolio’, designing, and mass producing nigh-precision clothing. It fills the fashion market’s critical need for an elevated concept of integrated production.
The project also addresses Shenzhen’s urban growth edges as a space to encode new manufacturing processes that combine agriculture and industry. These edges become a place to reinvent the fashion industry with environmentally responsible production chains. Using software to scan these boundaries, sites to allocate the facilities of the ‘new’ textile industry are identified. The architecture proposal trains neural networks (pix2pix) to produce new formal arrangements and functional clusters, which will host machinery and users in a ‘center-periphery’ logic. In these clusters, the centers hold structuring activities in the production chain, and the periphery holds complementary or supporting activities. This hierarchy integrates architecture into the landscape and opens the fashion industry to ecotourism. The project connects the industry and landscape in a symbiotic artificial-natural relationship.
Right: Situated in the center of Shenzhen’s megablocks, agricultural rings bring new vitality and resilience to urban food supply chains.
281 Symbiotic Verticalities: Urban Farms for Shenzhen
A section of the urban farm ring stacks symbiotic aeroponic, hydroponic, and aquaponic systems. Following page - Top: Aquaponics and IFF mimic a natural ecosystem: Exchanging the waste by-product from the fish as a food for the bacteria, to be converted into a perfect fertilizer for the plants, to return the water in a clean and safe form to the fish. Following page - Bottom: Within the agricultural ring is community greenspace for raising small crop batches.
Gem Chavapong Phipatseritham 282
285 The project proposes an extensive urban landscape system that weaves together utility infrastructure such as water, electricity, and data networks with biological structures such as root systems and water reclamation areas to create new resources for a resilient city. With the onset of increasing environmental and public health crises, single-function, static, and overly efficient infrastructure systems put large urban centers at risk. In order for Shenzhen to be more resilient, infrastructures and the utilities they facilitate must be thought of as living organisms, with the ability to change capacity, store resources, and tolerate stress.
Inspired by textile manufacturing and geotextile technologies, this project imagines urban utilities, streetscapes, and civic spaces not as linear lines but interwoven fields of both technological and living elements. Formerly isolated utilities such as water, electricity, waste management, and telecommunications combined and rescaled to create a second set of resilience utilities that prioritize experience-centered human needs such as comfort, safety, and education.
Constructed and biological technologies integrate according to formal and performative functions and blur the distinction between living and nonliving infrastructure.
Right: This project looks at Shenzhen through the lens of radiance, which is a measure of heat and sun exposure calculated using local weather data, building masses, topography, and tree cover.
287 Threaded Infrastructuress: Biotechnical Utilities for a Resilient Shenzhen
Top: The placement of groundcover, canopy, and pavement types responds to the radiance analyses of each urban block in order to mitigate urban heat island effect. Bottom: Vegetal species interweave with smart geotextiles to form a new type of urban green infrastructure, fusing biological and technological systems. Following page: This design behaves as multilayered watersheds and micro-climate corridors that facilitate the movement, processing, and storage of electricity, stormwater, and runoff waste.
Koby Moreno 288
New Nature Section Organization Based on Elevation
Forested Hillsides
Urban Peripheries
Urban Core
Coastal Edge
Shenzhen Bay
A cascading interconnection between water reservoirs and Shenzhen Bay weaves through the heart of the city. As it does, it connects the urban periphery to a new biotechnical infrastructure at the urban core. Each of the interventions of New Nature is organized along this section. The section becomes a natural lens through which to rethink the relationship between nature and city.
Seasonal Adaptation Responsive Spatial Design
SEASONAL ADAPTATION
Ecological infrastructures, using kinetic textiles and biological matter, are made visible and embedded into publicly accessible pedestrian paths. These Top: Sum, tem est, odi repereiciam re dynamic spaces recognize and respond commoditia sus aut ut id eveles autto changes in temperature, rainfall, and estrum quatiur re vent qui doleni reres. biodiversity.
Pedestrian Experience Connecting with Local Ecology
AI techniques and tools are crafted and applied in the identification and generation of new territory types. Hyper-prototyping introduces the combination of analytical, creative, and heuristic tasks through image processing and training sets.
New Nature generative sequence consists of four steps: Land identification, abstraction, design (as a transformative logic) and generation, which target a multiplicity of land arrangements to accommodate new sustainable dynamics.
