New Logic Calvin Fernando
CONTENTS What is the City?
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What is time?
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Mining the City
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Conflation
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Change over Time
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Diurnal or the 24 hours peek
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Urban rules
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Mid-Semester Proposition
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Dotted lines
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Variations regenerating the CBD
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Elasticity - 10,20,30 years
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Return Brief
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Final Proposition
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What is the City?
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A city should provoke strong emotional bondage with its habitants. It should provide for them. In turn its habitants should care for their City. A relationship has to be maintained by the people to the city to have a balanced lifestyle for generations to come. Looking forward, How I see ‘The City’ as it should be comfortable to be in even in course of change in time. Changes like in transportation and Evolutions. A city should be active and lively and be sustainable or adaptive.It does not wish to be dormant in one place. Futuristic ideas of expansion, co-living with nature and it is habitants.Does it need to have floating towers in the sky and over oceans? These are the questions or thoughts that come in mind in when thought ‘WHAT IS THE CITY FOR ME?’ The Temporal City | 6
SITE: MELBOURNE CBD
IMAGE SOURCE: Melbourne CBD transport timelapse, Hyperlapse/timelapse of Melbourne city Australia 2020 - Youtube and Denise Jans - unsplash (ΔT)2 | 7
MELBOURNE CBD
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What is time?
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A City is more than just a physical structure. It is more interconnected with unseen data and its unlimited resources with inputs and outputs full of data cables invisibility connected. Time is an interesting thing. Time is the amount of distance covered in speed. Any system which is static in nature becomes timeless, but we as humans are moving, and we are in active state of motion. But the city in which we are habiting is not and remains to curtain the same homogeneous program per block and simply expand vertically. However, the future would be different allowing various user groups to interact and use multiple mixture of distributed programs througout a single block and ultimately over the entire city grid. The Temporal City | 12
MELBOURNE, CBD
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Mining the City
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ENGAGING WITH DATA So, I began with the help of data that I could access with open Melbourne data website, and started to understand the city in a different manner by analysing the closeness, intensity points of different land uses, mapping minimum to maximum height of the buildings, peek pedestrian movements on various day and time to understand how the foot traffic is going. All these different datasets are interconnected unknowingly like data cables. And chose a block to experiment my initial proposal in it. I am more interested in knowing about the variation of the kinetic mixture of the programs inside CBD also to explore co-ordinated living, open space and embracing congestion that comes along with the tight integration. Understanding the city with this new outlook led to the forming of ‘New Logic’ for CBD.
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HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS (Initial) The Temporal City | 18
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BUILDING PROGRAMS (Initial) The Temporal City | 20
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BUILDING PROGRAM MELBOURNE CITY The Temporal City | 22
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HOUSES
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Residential Apartments MELBOURNE CITY Intensity Mapping The Temporal City | 26
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Hospitality
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Education/ Research MELBOURNE CITY Intensity Mapping The Temporal City | 30
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Office
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Retail shops
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Entertainment MELBOURNE CITY Intensity Mapping The Temporal City | 36
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COMMERCIAL ACCOMMODATION MELBOURNE CITY INTENSITY MAPPING The Temporal City | 38
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HOUSES/TOWNHOUSE MELBOURNE CITY PROGRAM DENSITY
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HOSPITALS/CLINIC MELBOURNE CITY PROGRAM DENSITY
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RESIDENTIAL APARTMENTS MELBOURNE CITY PROGRAM DENSITY
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EDUCATION INSTITUTION MELBOURNE CITY PROGRAM DENSITY
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OFFICE
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ENTERTAINMENT MELBOURNE CITY PROGRAM DENSITY
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RETAIL SHOPS MELBOURNE CITY PROGRAM DENSITY
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COMMERCIAL ACCOMMODATION MELBOURNE CITY PROGRAM DENSITY
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BUILDING HEIGHT MELBOURNE CITY The Temporal City | 44
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Conflation
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Conflation refers to process of combining or adding a new layer or idea or Information to gain a new perspective. Reviewing the datasets available through the city Of melbourne and other sources. Reviewing and testing multiple datasets like CLUE / Building dataset, expressing building use information. (ΔT)2 | 47
GOOGLE EARTH IMAGES The Temporal City | 48
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PERCENTAGE OF PROGRAM DENSITY The Temporal City | 52
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Change over Time
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Comparing pedestrian movements on various timelines to identify pattern in peek and less intense street activity around the block in 24 hours. (ΔT)2 | 55
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JANUARY 3RD, 2020 The Temporal City | 58
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MARCH 1ST, 2021 The Temporal City | 60
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Diurnal or the 24-Hou
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ur Peak
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INTENSITY MAPPING
BUILDING HEIGHT
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PROGRAM DENSITY
CITY 3D HEIGHT
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BLOCK PROGRAM PERCENTAGE
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PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT ZOOMED IN
PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT OVERALL SCRIPT
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Urban Rules
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Mid-Semester Proposit
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PROPOSAL By variation of existing programs within the city and expanding the programs in the XYZ axis to have a distributed network following strict urban rules to ground the proposal by retaining the city’s characteristic and only defining the typology of variable mix by the highest dense program of a block and expanded that over the entire city grid. The temporality is being explored by variation of user groups and the usage of programs throughout. By following these systems and exploring temporality defines a new arrangement for the city.
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Dotted Lines
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Variations Regenerating the CBD
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Elasticity - 10, 20, 20 y
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year plan
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Return Brief Post Mid-Semester
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RETURN BRIEF FEEDBACK from Tom, Ben, Joshua, David and Ian:
Generate system in which the forms work as figures. Resistance to the project. Find the flavour of the city. Boxes are containers – don’t develop that. Push the mix to extreme. Compare it to precedents of the current world and relate. Modulate the boxes with different ways to validate it. Sort of like ‘experience of the city’ Specific quality that you wanted. Control both input and output Understand scale, volume, size, and various typologies. Relationship to one another User level experience, perspective, and enjoyment. City’s redundancy gives resilience.
TO-DO: Creating forms to redevelop the abstract represented programs. Alternative specific quality that wants to be boosted more. Making the project realistic to ground it. Study real-life precedents and bring more value to the project. Not arbitrary – but follows patterns of the existing urban fabric to retain the CBD flavour or characteristics but with elements of my own. o Relate it to the user experience and their relationship to one another. o o o o o
SOFTWARE: Attractor points in axis Fixing forms to volumetric spaces (Surface fields/puffer fish) Representing data charts
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As per activity variation (of user) should the various homogeneous block form vary? Only vary specific civic/public models to refrain ‘ownerships’ reconfigure the city. 50/50 possibility to the future – pay based spaces in the city. Density and city’s cultural aspect is different – separate that. If only public civic programs are adaptable that forms redundancy and popularity for the future CBD. (ΔT)2 | 123
Office Block Abstract Test Growth The Temporal City | 124
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Education Block Abstract Test Growth The Temporal City | 126
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Dynamic Mix Abstract Block Test Growth The Temporal City | 128
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Support service Core Growth Test The Temporal City | 130
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Support Service Core Evolving growth test The Temporal City | 132
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Abstract Service Core Section The Temporal City | 134
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Modularity Diagram The Temporal City | 136
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Generic Platform Diagram The Temporal City | 140
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ABSTRACT PROGRAM GROWTH
SUPPORT CORE GROWTH
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ABSTRACT PROGRAM GROWTH
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BLOCK 46 AGGREGATION
OFFICE AGGREGATION IN DATA PATH
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OFFICE AGGREGATION IN DATA PATH
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Final Proposition
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FINAL PROPOSAL After analysing the program density and time variation within the identified block 46, the proposition starts by following the laid out urban rules and evolving from existing program and differentiating throughout the city using the variations of program density spread across the grid. The proposed block has different modules in three scales with expansion modules and vary by forming typological clusters by following the invisible dataset connections of the program density and forming a new path with closeness of each program in different directions leading to have a kinetic mixture within the block and this logic will be applied throughout the city to form a new dynamic city. Influenced by the feedback and William Gibson’s works in which he mentions that the future is already here, and we just need to evenly distribute it. This proposal starts by retaining the current existing characteristic of CBD as it is and allowing it to evolve with the new proposal. Which is like a hybrid between centralised and decentralised distribution leading to break the homogeneous towers where the time is 24 hours, where all the program functions with variation of usage of programs by various user groups and the result is the ‘New Logic’ for CBD to evolve. (ΔT)2 | 149
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Proposition
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DATASET PATHWAY The Temporal City | 162
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BLOCK 46 VIEWS
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BLOCK 73 VIEWS
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BLOCK 65 VIEWS
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Spatial Exploration
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City Scale Growth
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The Temporal City Ian Nazareth | David Schwarzman RMIT Architecture Semester 1 2021 https://www.temporal.city/