random tangents

Marketscape :: Dynamic Urban [re]Generation

Dynamic systems in relation to architecture have mainly been utilized in an architectural sense to generate continuous and curvilinear form. The intention of this proposal is to utilize the same algorithmic, self-organizing strategy to generate the organizational zoning and formatting of a project.
As this project is set in New Orleans, the dynamic system that was chosen was the natural process of a forest ecosystem rebuilding itself after a forest fire. Through research and understanding of this process six main concepts were chosen to lay out the rules for the project as a whole.

6 conceptual guidelines based on the regeneration of an ecosystem:
bio-legacies: zoning & formatting of the site as a whole is based on the state of the urban landscape
seeding: initial insertions are deliberate but over time become more random & uncontrolled
adaptation: new groupings must react to the existing groupings of stalls and the permanent pod spaces
variable regeneration levels & speeds: variable complexity of the systems based on the programmatic needs of the retail
biodiversity & mutual aid: competing systems interconnect and grow together over time
dormant rendered activated: as the site builds up with activity & program, pods and groupings of pods maintain the open space

These conceptual models come to formulate the rules of not only the systems themselves but the progress of the project as well. The project is developed at three levels simultaneously and each although existing at different scales with separate rules, interacts with the other levels of design. This interaction of systems across scales allows for the market to adapt fully to the needs of the residents of the Treme’ area and those of the city.
The rules act as extents of a type of gaming strategy in which as an alteration is made at one level of design, the other levels react and respond with their own alterations.

posted by ekeith @ 3:26 PM