HETEROTOPIC CHIMNEY WITH CONFIGURED CITY PART 3

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[FACTORY] : MUSIC CENTER ECOLOGICAL SHARING CHIMNEY

Music studio is also located near cowgate, but it is close to Blair street. Similarly, after the rehearsal hall, the office and the musical instrument store are hung up, a grey space is formed between them. The wind tower has holes in these gaps. Near the holes the wind frequently comes in and out, and wetness gathers here, which provides an opportunity for plants to grow. Gradually, plants will spread from here to the whole space. This building and Cowgate are located in a low-lying area, and the rainy climate in Edinburgh makes it easy to form waterlogging here, which makes the street environment muddy. Plants may be able to use wetness and turn threats into vitality. Because the roots of plants have the function of fixing soil and preventing soil erosion, the plants themselves will also absorb water. A flower shop is set up in ground floor. The working area of the flower shop is not confined indoors, but spread to the outdoors. Around the flower shop, there are ditches and pools for water storage, which provide water for plants to grow. The muddy cowgate has become a beautiful and vibrant bridge because of the flower shop.

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[FACTORY] : MUSIC CENTER

[FACTORY] : MUSIC CENTER

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[AMENITY] : AUDITORIUM HETEROTOPIC CHIMNEY

By breaking the vertical boundaries, the heterotopic wind tower, with its flora and fauna and its own characteristics, not only ameliorates the problems of the South Bridge, which is damp, enclosed and without natural light, but also acts as a vehicle for the exchange of music between people in different spaces. In this way, the South Bridge and the spaces on either side of it are no longer merely in physical contact, but are linked together by the heterotopic Wind Tower.

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[AMENITY] : AUDITORIUM

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[AMENITY] : AUDITORIUM

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[BED] : RAMBLE PUB ESCAPING WIND CHIMNEY

The wind tower is surrounded by many entertainment venues: restaurants, bars, etc., but the original entertainment program may not be able to satisfy people's needs. It is therefore possible to use the site as it is to design it in such a way as to maximise the resources already available on the site. As the main audience is the people who come to the concerts and the performers who are preparing to take a break. So I used the wind towers to form large and small music restaurants, music bars and lounges, here the pensile city is formed, allowing more plants and sunlight to enter the building. Using sound to draw people in and guide their escape routes.

I wanted people to be able to experience the different spaces by walking through them, while connecting them through sound, enjoying and participating in these moments of leisure. The staircase around the wind tower is therefore designed to allow users to reach any corner of the site. In contrast to a conventional staircase, the interior of the wind tower is set up with a view and the wind itself brings an additional experience to the walk. At the same time, the different spatial properties at different heights offer different leisure experiences: up to the top terrace to enjoy the view and down to the ground floor restaurant to experience the life style of the people of the past.

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[BED] : RAMBLE PUB

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[BED] : RAMBLE PUB

[BUTTS]:WIND TOWER

We do not consider the water vapour inside to be superfluous, it is just in the wrong place. We have chosen to install a water pipe in the middle of the double wall that forms the wind tower to collect the water inside and filter it to water the plants inside the wind tower At the same time the plants themselves purify the air, thus further enhancing the experience of use.

Thus, the wind tower, the water and the plants form a closed-loop

Construction of Double Wall Construction of Filter TLML SET BUILDING BODY TLML SET BUILDING BODY

The wind towers are an important means of solving the environmental problems of the site: on the one hand, they break the vertical constraints and bring sunlight into the enclosed interior of the South Bridge; on the other hand, the wind from the towers removes the water vapour from the interior and improves the internal air environment.

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3.4.3 Capricci 2

The heterotopic chimney does not only affect the indoor space to which it is connected, but also the outdoor environment within a certain area. In contrast to traditional chimneys, which emit exhaust fumes, the heterotopic chimney relies on the plants inside to clean the air and emit it into the atmosphere through the properties of the chimney, thus cleaning the environment. The sound of the music inside the heterotopic chimney also entertains people walking in the street.

3.5 Configured City

Koolhaas chooses to integrate different spaces at the urban scale to form a giant heterotopia, but this leads to an exponential decrease in influence with increasing distance. This paper is about how people can live in the original old city and still have a good life, which a centralised heterotopia such as Koolhaas clearly cannot achieve.

Given the nature of the chimneys and the need to allow the people of the old town of Auld Reekie to be affected by the heterotopian chimneys. Heterotopic chimneys could be scattered throughout the city. These heterotopic chimneys are scattered roughly like stones, separated from each other by a certain distance, and the ripples that they throw into the urban pool overlap and collide with each other and are thus only connected. They are like true social cohesions.

Stan Allen proposes a strategy in rereading the classics: do not treat them as a seamless, closed, internally consistent text, which would obscure their inherent rule that they can be reread as well as reordered.32 As a city under configured urbanism, this logic is also followed. This means that the internal functions of the buildings in the city, and even the buildings themselves, are subject to change and even rebuilding over time. But this does not mean that the three previously restored relationships will fall back into fragmentation. The heterotopic wind towers are preserved and spread throughout the city. The people of Southbridge, and indeed Edinburgh, can still have a good quality of life thanks to its ability to connect spaces, improve the environment and reshape social relationships.

32 Allen, Stan, Piranesi’s “Campo Marzio”: An Experimental Design, in Assemblage 10, (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1989), pp.94

Physical Model

Physical Model

EXHIBITION

EXHIBITION

CAPRICCIOS' PLAN OF WIND INSTRUMENT

2 RAMBLE PUB: Musical restaurant

3 AUDITORIUM: The entrance of heterotopic chimney

7 DRAMA THEATER: The entrance of wind organ

1 RAMBLE PUB: The entrance to escape

8 DRAMA THEATER: The roof of wind organ

5 MUSIC CENTER: Sharing green tower

6 MUSIC CENTER: Muscial flower shop

4 AUDITORIUM: The inside of heterotopic chimney

CONCLUSION EPILOGUE

This paper analyses the choice made by the people of Edinburgh during the Auld Reekie period to respond negatively to the environmental, social and residential problems that arose in the city by building a new city.

By discussing and designing a heterotopic wind tower as a direct response to these contradictions and spreading the approach throughout the city, the aim is to explore the possibility of people living in the old city with a good quality of life without having to move to the new city in that context.

Using the Caledonian Forest as a starting point, the design analyses how the various parts of the forest work together to form an integrated system. This logic and mechanism of operation is applied to the transformation of Southbridge, breaking down spatial boundaries and promoting the unity of the building and its interior users through the use of plants and music.

It is important to emphasise that the city is not a static state, it is always changing, and therefore the system of the heterotopic wind towers needs to be diffused into the city to ensure that the three relationships are unified no matter how the buildings around it change.

With the appearance of four different types of chimneys above the South Bridge, the ecology of the South Bridge itself has changed: a musically themed space has become dominant, with music spreading from the chimneys to the whole city along with the purified air.

It is important to note that the city is always in a state of flux. In the future, the city may not need a building of this scale with music as the dominant genre, perhaps the building next to the chimney will be demolished and rebuilt, perhaps the city will need a new type of space. But this does not mean that the research and design we have done will be useless, we can still place chimneys in different locations in the city according to their characteristics, or we can even build different types of chimneys in the city according to their needs and then design the surrounding buildings around them.

That's build a city that starts with building a chimney.

APPENDIX

Experience the circulation of water throughout the atmosphere through research at allotment

NATURAL ARTIFICIAL

EVAPORATION

PENETRATION

EVAPORATION

TRANSPIRATION

EVAPORATION

ORDERED DRAINAGE

RAINWATER PURIFICATION

PENETRATION

PENETRATION

WARRISTON ALLOTMENT HILL

SURFACE RUNOFF

SURFACE RUNOFF

SEA SEASIDE SUBURB AREA RIVER

URBAN AREA

APPENDIX

Discover the design language by overlaying multiple layers of colour through watercolour.

GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS

Agency An Enzymatic Territory or any part of it.

Amenity That which is available for folk to arrange to suit themselves.

Archive Bed

A place where things begin and where order is given. A series of drawings.

A place where things begin and where order is given. A series of drawings.

A scene that combines dream and reality

Chimney

Configure Urbanism

Edinburgh Three Ecologies

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Formerly used to discharge exhaust gases, now used to discharge purified air.

The process of using figures to recombine, iterate to evolve the urban which operates in an endless way.

A past, present and future series of situations in a fecund ground where folk have made and continue to make a multitude of places.

Human subjectivity; human relations; and the environment.

Specific constituent buildings of enzymatic territories that reciprocally shape and are shaped by the ground and the relations of ground: Factory buildings, Amenity buildings, Bed buildings and Water Butt buildings.

Heterotopia

New Visualisation

The heterotopia is capable of juxtaposing in a single real place several spaces, several sites that are in themselves incompatible.

A visualisation newly conceptualised and visualised in representational techniques appropriate to its conceptual status as it breaches into reality and vice versa.

An urban paradigm seeks a complete process for making decisions, a comprehensive thinking about all the problems that exist in the city, an honest confrontation with reality and an attempt to be objective. In terms of results, there is no doubt that what is presented is rational, but there is probably an irrational reason behind the rationality.

The uneven development of cities due to factors such as historical legacies, which manifests itself in the form of some areas being extremely developed and others being too dilapidated.

The Loving Metropolitan Landscape holds a non-risk-averse speculative impulse that situates enzymatic territories in a Biopolis in networks of agency across the Metropolitan scale.

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