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Sam McBride - Senior Thesis Studio- Maurizio Sabini - Spring 2014 Tactical Urbanism vs Adaptive Urbanism: a new infrastructure Insectival Automation
MOSCOw, russia LONDON, United kingdom ISTANBUL, TURKEY
New York, USA LOS angeles, usa
CAIRO, EGYPT MEXICO city, mexico Lagos, nigeria
BOGOTA, COLUMBIA
BEIGING, CHINA tokyo, japan osaka, japan NEW DELHI, INDIA seoul, korea Kolkata, west bangal SHANGHAI, CHINA KARACHI, Pakistan MANILA, PHILippines DHAKA, bangladesh MUMBAI, india BANKOK, THAILAND
KINShasa/BRAZZAVILLE, CONGO
RIO de janeiro, brazil san paulo, brazil BEUNOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
World population 2000 - 6.1 Billion 2050 - 8.9 BILLION
1995
2012
City as control
Current infrastructures are typically understood as physical channels that connect one space with another, enabling the passage and transfer of people and goods. They (infrastructures) are primarily considered important because they are channels for economic exchange, making them the sinews of power and lines of control. At its dictionary definition, infrastructure is: the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization - the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools.16 This is describing an incredibly rigid intervention, laying the groundwork and serving as the foundation for society to exist and grow atop of. However, this understanding of infrastructure, whether intentional or not, contradicts and contains the complexities of the social superstructure, essentially putting it (society) within a container and establishing a rather banal set of parameters we must exist within. For this reason we have to move beyond this traditional understanding, pushing towards a new infrastructure that is bottom-up in nature, relying on the social superstructure to inform its function and implementation.
Hegemonic
Marginal
Current control scheme
Tactical urbanism
Tactical urbanism is a means in which infrastructures within the city are captured and used by the marginalized society based on their needs and wants rather than those of the hegemonic.
Downfalls to Future Success Small-Scale Intervention Temporary Effects Particular Public
Hegemonic Development as control
Resulting gray area (Marginalized zone)
Marginal
Desired control shift
The problem THE SOLUTION
Adaptive Urbanism
We must begin to understand infrastructures as something more adaptive. Adaptive in the sense that the system seeks to adapt the current infrastructures, it finds those unusable, unsuitable and controlling situations created by current infrastructures, and changes them, allows them to be occupied in a way that directly relates to the general public. It divorces itself from something merely economic, becoming a sinew for life and occupation. It must be understood as adaptable in the sense that the spaces the system creates can adjust for a multitude of uses for different times, purposes, and people. It must tap into ideas of networking on all levels (social, political, economic) and change depending on the needs of those networks.
ADAPTIVE URBANISM
Occupants
We have to understand infrastructures as something on the urban scale, but with localized effects. They must be able to adjust themselves in relation to the entire city, analyzing the entire urban condition while still understanding their effects on a more micro scale. Inevitable shifting control from the hegemonic to the marginalized.
Design Objectives
Current Infrastructure
Urban scale with localized effects Proactive yet responsive Adaptive and adaptable Urban scale with localized effects
projected population growth 2010 - 52.3 million 2025 - 58.4 million 2050 - 70.8 million
REGIONAL ANALYSIS
URBANIZED ZONE
Hegemonic society
Proactive but responsive
MARGINALIZED SOCIETY
Adaptive but adaptable
RIVER ACCESS
Desired urban structure
INTERSTATE ACCESS
RAIL CONNECTION
BOSTON
mil
23,362,099 7,600,000 11,547,607 3,312,228 6,350,397
0.5
New York City Boston Philadelphia Baltimore Washington DC
19
PHILADELPHIA
es
NEW YORK CITY
BALtimore
32 .25
mil
es
90
mil es
80
.5 m ile
s
washington DC
0 250000 500000 750000
1250000
URBAN INSECTIVAL AUTOMATION
Auto-Nomadic Bots Information Collective and A-NB Factory
Auto-Nomadic Bots
Design Objectives REGIONAL coordination with local effects URBAN BASE Seek adaptable conditions Promote adaptive lifestyle Proactive yet responsive Ubiquitous computation and implementation Insectival instincts
swarm-LIKE INSTINCTS
MASS COMPUTING
Power Generation Large Scale Distribution
Rolling Power Shortages
Power Outpost for Community Scale Distribution Distribution for Individual Buildings Retro-Fit Existing Power Systems Alternatives to Fossil Fuel Consumption
Air Scrubbing Iodide Dispersal Solid Fuel Engines
Urban Lighting Water Remediation and Displacement Structural Repair and Displacement
Flood Zones
Structural Creation Debris Cleanup Evacuation
Rising Heat Index
Public Oasis
Air Pollution and SMOG
Mass Air Purification Community Air Outpost Individual Building Air Quality
Hurricane and Inclement Weather
Human Carriage Supply Carriage Transportation Aircraft
Notification and Alert Prevention and Protection from Damage Evacuation Shelter and Protection
Wind Kinetics
Supply Carriage Claw Debris Storage Debris Transportation
Rescue EMT and Emergency Supply Structural Repair Structural Creation
Clean Water Shortage
Beioluminescence
Water Purification Large Scale Distribution Community Water Outpost Single Building Distribution
Existing Air Conditioning Retro-fit
Sound Emergency Lights
Immediate Supply
Canvas Enclosure
Agricultural Contamination And Shortage
Social Unrest and Urbicide
Community Based Urban Farming Immediate Supply Soil Reclamation and Cleaning Protection Rescue Evacuation Structural Repair
Air Supply Supply Carriage Supply Storage
Public Hookups Remote Connections
Structural Creation EMT and Emergency Supply Public Outpost
Solar Kinetics
War and Immediate Attack
Sound Emergency Lights
Repair Reconnection
Protection Rescue Evacuation Structural Repair Structural Creation EMT and Emergency Supply Public Hookups Remote Connection
Phytoremediation Canvas Enclosure
Direct Hook To Power Grid
Supply Carriage
Tensegrity Suspension Pylon
Water Mane Hookups
Biolumincesence Tensegrity Compression Digging Supply Carriage Claw Debris Storage Debris Transportation
Existing Building Plug-in Tensegrity Compression Digging
A-NB Taxonomy
Existing Power Structure Retro-fit
Well-Like
Damming Water Storage Water Movement Water Distribution Well-Like
Mesh Expansion Hydroponic Distribution Soil Farming
Supply Carriage Supply Storage Boat
Human Carriage Supply Carriage Transportation Boat
Tensegrity Compression Digging Hydro Kinetics
Bioluminescence Movement Filtration Sound Emergency Lights
A-NB-3-001 Air
A-NB-1-001 LAND
A-NB-2-001 Water
Power Generation Large Scale Power Distribution Community Scale Power Outpost Power Distribution to Individual Buildings Prevention and Protection from Damage Retro-fit Existing Power Structure Urban Lighting Structural Repair
Structural Creation Debris Clean-up Community Air Outpost Notification and Alert Shelter and protection Community Urban Farming Immediate Supply Soil Reclamation and Cleaning
Cloud Skippers/City Studio Lindfors
Skycall
Flying Jellyfish
Sense-able City Lab
Lief Ristroph
Power Generation Alternatives to Fossil Fuels Urban Lighting Water Remediation and Displacement Debris Clean-up Evacuation Notification and alert Rescue
Water Purification Large Scale Water Distribution Community Water Outpost Single Building Water Distribution Immediate Supply Community Urban Farming EMT and Emergency Supply
StrandBeests
Tensegrity Rover
LS3/RHEX/SandFlea
Theo Jansen
NASA
Boston Dynamics
Power Generation Community Power Outpost Alternatives to Fossil Fuels Urban Lighting Debris Clean-up Evacuation Public Oasis Mass Air Purification
Community Air Outpost Individual Building Air Quality Notification and Alert Evacuation Rescue EMT and Emergency Supply Community Water Outpost Immediate Supply Community Post
Drone 1-001-1
Aqua2
Spider Strider
Elie Ahovi
Gregory Dudek
Carnegie Mellon
Information Collective and A-NB Factory SUB-REGIONAL ANALYSIS
New York City
URBANIZED ZONE
Hegemonic society
MARGINALIZED SOCIETY
RIVER ACCESS
INTERSTATE ACCESS
RAIL CONNECTION
80
25
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MIl es
.5 M Ile s
PHILADELPHIA
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100000 200000 300000
90
MIl es
BALTIMORE
500000
LOCAL ANALYSIS trenton, nj 84,913 People
MORRISVILLE, PA 8,728 people
2.2
MOON ISLAND
ILES
5M
WATER TREATMENT FACILITY
levittown, pa
ROEBLING MEMORIAL PARK
52,983 PEOPLE MERCER generation station
BILES ISLAND
van sciver lake
MANor lake tullytown cove tellytown landfill
tullytown, pa
1650
3300 4950
7950
DELEW ARE RIV
0
tellytown landfill
ILES
5M
0.7
US STEEL TERMINAL
NEWBOLD ISLAND
ER
1,872 people
US STEEL KEYSTONe INDUSTRIAL PORT COMPLEX
tellytown landfill
Design Objectives
florence, nj
12,109 PEOPLE
Manufacture and deploy Marginal ownership Social center Open information Adaptive conditions
Component Factory
Information Collective
SIMULATION RESEARCH ADMIN
PROCESSING
Administration Factory Locker room Repair zone Test/public shop Research Simulation zone Storage Distribution channels Cafeteria
15,000 ft2 (30 People) 1,000,000 FT2 10,000 FT2 150,000 FT2 250,000 FT2 37,500 FT2 (150 People) 50,000 FT2 50,000 Ft2 30,000 FT2 7,500 FT2 (750 People)
Data storage Administration Processing zone Cafeteria Information library Visualization room LECTURE (large) Lecture (small) Board Room Conference room
250,000 ft2 15,000 FT2 (30 people) 23,000 FT2 (250 people) 1,500 FT2 (500 People) 50,000 FT2 10,000 FT2 7,500 ft2 (750 people) 1,800 ft2 (150 People) 1,000 ft2 2,500 ft2
Livable Zone
Residential Commercial Public/cultural
Infrastructural Considerations
Parking (commercial and public) Roads (commercial and public) Rail (industrial and Public) Port (industrial) Energy Generation Water purification and use
Precedents
Plug-in City Peter Cook, Archigram
35% 15% 50%
TEST/PUBLIC SHOP
FACTORY
CAFETERIA
VISUALIZATION
Space for the construction of each component.
REPAIR ZONE CAFETERIA
Zone dedicated to the repair of returning components for re-distribution.
DATA STORAGE
TEST/PUBLIC SHOP
ADMIN
Space for researches as well as the public to construct and test pieces for component use.
REST
FACTORY
RESEARCH
Information Library
Research facility for researches to explore new ideas for component use and construction.
REPAIR
STORAGE
SIMULATION ZONE A zone emulating a urban context in which the component use and integration can be tested.
DISTRIBUTION
DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL LECTURE
The means to deploy and conduct final tests and checks.
DATA STORAGE
BR
Space for the storage of servers, processors and antennas to assist with the gathering and storage of data.
L2 Conference
PROCESSING ZONE Zone for researchers to process, understand and visualize data for distribution.
INFORMATION LIBRARY Library of digital information from the data center for public access.
VISUALIZATION ROOM Room for delegation and the public to see real time mapping of the city.
Tokyo Bay:
Floating City 2030:
Master-plan
Thames Estuary Aquatic Urbanism
Kenzo Tange
Anthony Lau
LOCKER
REST
Site Section: Core/Regional Rail Connection Local Rail Stop
Light Rail to Site Morrisville, PA
Local Rail Stop trenton, nj
Moon Island
Freight Rail Local Rail Stop
Site Aerial - Towards Trenton
Housing
Water Treatment Facility
Local Rail Stop
Roebling Memorial Park
Light Rail to Site
Local Rail
Connection to Regional Rail
Road Access to Site Boat Access
Van Sciver Lake
0
500
1000 1500
Mercer Generation Station
From Rail Stop - Recreation
Local Rail Stop
2500
Recreation
US STEEL KEYSTONe INDUSTRIAL PORT COMPLEX
ARE EW
DEL ER
RIV
Site Plan Site Plan/Added infrastructure
Looking Towards Core From Light Rail
From Rail Stop - Housing
Parallel Appendage/Core Section
Through Core Towards Appendage
Terminal Levels/Pedestrian and Freight Drop-ff
0
Repair Bay/Appendage Corridor
30
60
90
150
Appendage/Core Plan
All Core levels Above terminal platforms 6
1
10
13
11
14
12
15
2
7 3
Level Seven
8 4
5
Public Platform 0
15
30
45
75
Core Level Two Typical for floor one through six
Vehicular Access/Recreation Link Core Level Eight Typical for floor Seven through Twelve
Freight Rail/Industrial Link Core Level Thirteen Typical for floor Thirteen through Fifteen
9
Perpendicular Appendage Section
Pedestrian Platform/Core Entrance
Looking Up Towards the Core
Light Rail Platform Across River
Core Section
Core Interior/Circulation Landing
Start Models
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