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5 - View of SUPERDOCKING Model (team credits below) |
6 - View of SUPERDOCKING Model (team credits below) |
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7 - View of SUPERDOCKING Model (team credits below) |
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| Planetary ONE ///////// Partners: Maria Aiolova, Carlos Barrios, Alexander Felson PhD, Nurhan Gokturk, Mitchell Joachim PhD, David Maestres, Jason Vigneri-Beane Project: SUPERDOCKING, Brooklyn Navy Yards Project Area (Jason Vigneri-Beane): Infrastructural Bot Design for Future Urban Precinct (Images 1-4 Above) Project Role (Jason Vigneri-Beane): Founding Partner Responsible for Infrastructural Bot Design, Modeling, Representation (Images 1-4 Above) and Participant in General Project Direction Discussion General Project Statement: As a form of Urbaneering, this project continues to explore the possibilities of the architectural retrofit. On an urban industrial site in Brooklyn, New York, Super Docking imagines a self-sustained working waterfront as a center for clean industries that are incubators for new technologies. The designed landscape is adapted to local climate dynamics and is outfitted for a living infrastructure to seamlessly connect land and water. The project interfaces the historic dry-docks, which are retrofitted into five distinct research and production facilities; massive 3D digital prototyping/ scanning, replicable test beds for studies in limnology and restorative ecology, freight delivery of raw materials and finished goods, automated shipbuilding, and phytoremediation barges for CSO (Combined Sewer Overflow) issues. The surface of the site mitigates architectural space and river flows. It supports programs to clean polluted water and sets the terrain for privileging pedestrian movement throughout the site. The project docks are highlighted by shapeable deployable structures and membranes. It is an industrial ecology landscape established to manage both man made and natural systems, with reinforced land use needs. The current urgency to aggregate areas for innovation with social and economic diversity is in demand. Our project encourages research, both as an industrial activity and as an ecological intervention. We wish to promote new products, jobs, green office spaces, and areas of exchange Infrastructural Bot Design Statement: In order to address complex terrains, dynamic infrastructural needs, plug-and-play urban systems and the ability to upgrade and swap out infrastrcutural components we design four types of Infrastructural Bots that would populate the site, traverse its sectors and terrains and act as catalysts, monitors and harvesters. The four types are: 1 - EARTH_DRONE: Maintains a synthetic-ecological laboratory and a micro-patch landscape of ecological test-beds. 2 - DELIVERY_DRONE: Shuttles materials among different sectors/programmatic structures. 3 - FABRICATION_DRONE: Performs maintenance, diagnostics, repairs and new construction for the industrial sectors. 4 - BIO-FUEL_DRONE: Provides a mobile, local and adaptable micro powerplant for the various decentralized activities and operators of the project. Credits:
Mitchell Joachim, Nurhan Gokturk, Maria Aiolova, David Maestres, Jason
Vigneri Beane. Published in: Global Design: Elsewhere Envisioned. Editors: Mitchell Joachim, Peder Anker, Louise Harpman. Publisher: Prestel. Tarp: Not Nature. Pratt Institute School of Architecture. Essay: "Hello_EcoNet". Author: Jason Vigneri-Beane |
