http://cargocollective.com Penn: University of Pennsylvania Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:15:33 +0000 http://cargocollective.com en http://cargocollective.com/upenn/MEMBRANE http://cargocollective.com/upenn/following/upenn/MEMBRANE Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:15:33 +0000 Penn: University of Pennsylvania 4259161 MEMBRANE: A PROPOSAL FOR RISING SEA LEVELS IN NEW YORK TINGWE XU / XIE ZHANG FERDA KOLATAN STUDIO <img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/1-ecology_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/1-ecology_o.jpg" data-mid="22460254" border="0" align="left"/> Confronted with the sea levels of New York rising, we started with an idea of protecting certain areas against water by creating a protective ‘membrane.’ Deriving from an aggregation of intelligent components, we created a surface system that can reveal a continually changing performance and expression. The scale and geometry of shark skin varies without transmuting from one to another or transgressing their own boundaries. They negotiate to form the whole skin system by a continuous variation of themselves. Like shark skin, we used a parametric design to populate a component and form our surface. With the help of this parametric method, we controlled the behavior of each component. Thus, we were able to control the physical features, both locally and globally, with a high degree of precision. The higher components can remain open to allow sunlight into the buildings, and their function and aperture degree can be controlled in case of more sea-level rising. The components at the lower part are closed to prevent the water infiltration. The transforming surface can combine multiple functions, such as waterproofing, lighting and agricultural planting. Rather than a traditional hierarchical design, each component on the surface has equal essentiality. It has an irreducible integrity. As the surface serves as a waterproofing layer for the buildings, in turn, the building provides structural support for the surfaces. To blur the boundary, the surface seamlessly dissolves the old and rigid layer system of the buildings. Thus, the space between the old and new surface is completely fluid. <img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/1-iconic_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/1-iconic_o.jpg" data-mid="22460258" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/2-sea level rising1_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/2-sea level rising1_o.jpg" data-mid="22460260" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/3-sea level rising2_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/3-sea level rising2_o.jpg" data-mid="22460266" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/4-sea level rising3_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/4-sea level rising3_o.jpg" data-mid="22460270" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/5-master plan_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/5-master plan_o.jpg" data-mid="22460271" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/7-GC components_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/7-GC components_o.jpg" data-mid="22460276" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/8-population_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/8-population_o.jpg" data-mid="22460281" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/10-structure_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/10-structure_o.jpg" data-mid="22460284" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/11-surface_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/11-surface_o.jpg" data-mid="22460288" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/12-new layer_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/12-new layer_o.jpg" data-mid="22460296" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/13-new layer2_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/13-new layer2_o.jpg" data-mid="22460302" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/14-section_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/14-section_o.jpg" data-mid="22460305" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/15-interior_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/15-interior_o.jpg" data-mid="22460310" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/16-overview_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/16-overview_o.jpg" data-mid="22460316" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/19-roof forest_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4259161/19-roof forest_o.jpg" data-mid="22460317" border="0" align="left"/> MEMBRANE: A PROPOSAL FOR RISING SEA LEVELS IN NEW YORK TINGWE XU / XIE ZHANG FERDA KOLATAN STUDIO Confronted with the sea levels of New York rising, we started... http://cargocollective.com/upenn/REVIVING-ROAD http://cargocollective.com/upenn/following/upenn/REVIVING-ROAD Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:35:36 +0000 Penn: University of Pennsylvania 4080476 REVIVING ROAD: AN AERIAL EVACUATION SYSTEM WENBO GUO / XIOHAN WEN ROLAND SNOOKS STUDIO <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080476/1_640.jpg" width="640" height="285" width_o="1600" height_o="714" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080476/1_o.jpg" data-mid="21393309" border="0" align="left"/> At the very beginning of this design, We began to imagine a possible condition of New Orleans under the inevitable threats of the future. With the impact brought by Hurricane Katrina, what would be an appropriate proposal for this city to mitigate another disaster? We found strengthening the levees or relocating the vital culture of this city to be inadequate solutions. Reconsidering the challenges in New Orleans, we realized that two problems for New Orleans’ today were still unsolved. One is the underlying factor that caused 1,500 lives to be lost in the disaster, which is the chaos happened in the process of evacuation. There were not enough vehicles for evacuation, but regardless, the only route left was ineffective for evacuation. Another design challenge is that after Katrina, much of the population has declined and the city government is looking for sustainable methods to revive the city to promote the confidence to attract residents once again. First, we needed a massive reconstruction and amelioration of the existing traffic system. Second, we needed a new and comprehensive infrastructural system, not only to stimulate the economy, but also provide brand new, and more importantly safe, houses for future residents. Our proposal aimed to combine these two. We are proposing a new structure that involves an aero evacuation system – a network of viaducts across the city with programmatic elements integrated with it. To realize this, and in order to get 800,000 people out of city in 5 hours, based on calculation, we divided the city into 36 parts and selected coordinates in each part as nodes in the network, trying to make the whole system stronger in face of similar disaster in the future. The new functional network, consisting of residential space, business or commerce space, or infrastructures such as hospitals, government departments or emergency storages built along the aero route, is by virtue of height, safe when the ground level is threatened by the flood. The construction of this system is aimed at gaining back the confidence of the people who have left the city and trying to get back. The proposal could be understood as a new city above an existing city, even with its traffic network. These two worlds serve for each other mutually. It could be a landscape, a landmark, or a machine, once runs, generate energy and profits. It stands for the new generation of city life. While it may be deemed as a fictional utopia, we hope it could suggest a great possibility of the future of this great city. <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080476/2_640.jpg" width="640" height="492" width_o="2048" height_o="1575" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080476/2_o.jpg" data-mid="21393313" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080476/3_640.jpg" width="640" height="478" width_o="2048" height_o="1532" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080476/3_o.jpg" data-mid="21393336" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080476/4_640.jpg" width="640" height="573" width_o="1895" height_o="1698" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080476/4_o.jpg" data-mid="21393338" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080476/5_640.jpg" width="640" height="285" width_o="2048" height_o="914" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080476/5_o.jpg" data-mid="21393340" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080476/6_640.jpg" width="640" height="919" width_o="1895" height_o="2723" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080476/6_o.jpg" data-mid="21393343" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080476/7_640.jpg" width="640" height="1324" width_o="1475" height_o="3053" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080476/7_o.jpg" data-mid="21393345" border="0" align="left"/> REVIVING ROAD: AN AERIAL EVACUATION SYSTEM WENBO GUO / XIOHAN WEN ROLAND SNOOKS STUDIO At the very beginning of this design, We began to imagine a possible... http://cargocollective.com/upenn/EVO-NOPOLIS http://cargocollective.com/upenn/following/upenn/EVO-NOPOLIS Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:01:59 +0000 Penn: University of Pennsylvania 4080249 EVO-NOPOLIS MING YANG / YUANHAO WANG ROLAND SNOOKS STUDIO <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080249/1_640.jpg" width="640" height="457" width_o="1600" height_o="1143" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080249/1_o.jpg" data-mid="21392679" border="0" align="left"/> This project was set in the background of sea level rise which is likely phenomenon with the global warming looming. Most of the cities in the world are located on the coast line, making rising sea levels a serious problem in centuries to come. Lower Manhattan was selected as our area of analysis due to its location and intrinsic grid pattern, which can be prototypical. We also tried to see the potential of rising water as a positive catalyst for evolution rather than a negative disaster. Our goal was to analyze and reorganize the urban space using a multi-agent system. Swarm-based algorithms were used to study collective behavior in decentralized, self-organized systems. Rules were scripted to ensure that agents interacted locally, rather than globally, however the entire system could make quick responses once the environmental changes occur. The methods were used to study behavioral simulations to influence the city's evolution. As the city is overcome by rising water, unused infrastructure and building structures must be replaced. An algorithm was created to reorganize urban space - connecting isolated infrastructures and buildings together. The infrastructural elements grow and create an expanding and endless growth cycle. Each building may only change on a small scale, but the city's network will change dramatically. And as the new structural system grows and evolves, it generates opportunities for new spaces, programs and environments. <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080249/2_640.jpg" width="640" height="457" width_o="1600" height_o="1143" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080249/2_o.jpg" data-mid="21392682" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080249/2a_640.jpg" width="640" height="640" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080249/2a_o.jpg" data-mid="21392686" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080249/3b_640.jpg" width="640" height="924" width_o="1901" height_o="2747" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080249/3b_o.jpg" data-mid="21392689" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080249/4_640.jpg" width="640" height="544" width_o="2048" height_o="1742" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080249/4_o.jpg" data-mid="21392690" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080249/4a_640.jpg" width="640" height="922" width_o="1858" height_o="2679" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080249/4a_o.jpg" data-mid="21392711" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080249/4b_640.jpg" width="640" height="456" width_o="1600" height_o="1140" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080249/4b_o.jpg" data-mid="21392712" border="0" align="left"/> EVO-NOPOLIS MING YANG / YUANHAO WANG ROLAND SNOOKS STUDIO This project was set in the background of sea level rise which is likely phenomenon with the global... http://cargocollective.com/upenn/SELF-ORGANIZING-CITY http://cargocollective.com/upenn/following/upenn/SELF-ORGANIZING-CITY Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:07:13 +0000 Penn: University of Pennsylvania 4080049 SELF-ORGANIZING CITY HYOUNG SUB KIM / HYO YOUNG PARK FERDA KOLATAN STUDIO <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/0 landscape_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1280" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/0 landscape_o.jpg" data-mid="21391743" border="0" align="left"/> The water area which surrounds New York City is going to expand and elevate. Climate change resulting from global greenhouse-gas emissions is expected to cause sea levels to rise, which will further transform our shoreline. The New York City Panel on Climate Change projects that by the 2080s, sea levels could be 23 inches higher than today or, in the event of rapid melting of land-based polar ice, as much as 55 inches higher than today. And as the sea level rises, the risks from both temporary flooding and long-term inundation threaten New York City inevitably. Fortunately, most portions of New York stand several feet or more above sea level, and therefore New York City won't be submerged. According to the potential inundated area by rising sea level in 80~1000 years, the dangerous portion is several blocks along the edge of the city, waterfront area. A substantial portion of this edge area that will be subject to the risks from flooding, is occupied by residential and commercial buildings today. Also, nearly half of the coastline is parkland or publicly accessible areas. The temporary or more continuous inundation of this low-lying areas could result in damage to or loss of parks, esplanades, piers, beaches, boat launches, and other facilities including residential and commercial buildings. As a matter of course, we won't abandon and leave the city which has fully developed dense urban setting. We, however, will consider the water a geographic entity of itself - another borough which unites the various parts of New York. On this water borough, we will make a new system which reacts to changing water and which is closely connected with the current city. On the connection issue, it should be recognized that we will definitely lose some part of the city which is several blocks along the shoreline, among them, more specifically, the lowest 1 or 2 floors of the buildings in this area. With design of structural features such as new ground floors raised above flood elevation, we will be able to keep the upper portion of the buildings along this dangerous waterfront area. Now, we can designate 3 parts of the city with relatively safe Inner city zone, Transitional zone which will lose access level to the current urban fabric and facilities, and Water zone. The current urban fabric of the Inner city will be lifted in the Transitional zone and extended along the new system. In this way, the new system on the water zone will be woven into the urban fabric blurring the border and at the same time replacing access level to the fabric in the transitional zone. From this point of view, the critical mechanism as a new landscape provides an opportunity to let us recognize and experience spatial and functional continuity. When it comes to the new system's program on phases, it emerges as an assembly of functional units cluster and network, including shelter for emergency evacuation and waterfront-space for water recreation, and so on. For operating by itself, some of the units will have some sustainable system, using the potentials of tides and currents for renewable energy. Also, based on the demand for an attractive form of transportation, substantial portion of the units will be a station of maritime transportation or have a docking infra system. As it grows into new region, it will function as residential, commercial and cultural district, bringing the city's inhabitants to the water. As the final outcome, a whole series of new landscape and infrastructure components weaves around and across the water, and permeates the urban fabric, both existing and new. It will be a whole new city in which there are new mechanism, new environment, and new quality of life. From the ultimate and long-term point of view, it would achieve the goals of development and environmental restoration. The new system would utilize the ecological benefits of wetlands, shallows, and intertidal zones into some part of it. New system needs to provide valuable and productive habitat, the parks and waterfront greenways on the system would be treasured places for recreation and relaxation. Beaches and other naturalized shorelines on this system provide access for surfing, swimming, and other water sports. All these spaces will be valuable resources that enhance the city’s livability and the health of its population. <img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/1 Render view_qqqq_640.jpg" width="640" height="448" width_o="1028" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/1 Render view_qqqq_o.jpg" data-mid="21391744" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/2_640.jpg" width="640" height="522" width_o="1872" height_o="1527" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/2_o.jpg" data-mid="21391745" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/3 plan-final005_640.jpg" width="640" height="430" width_o="1770" height_o="1191" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/3 plan-final005_o.jpg" data-mid="21391746" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/4 Pages from z_PRESSINGMATTERS_Full Spread Projects Only-7_640.jpg" width="640" height="1022" width_o="1914" height_o="3059" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/4 Pages from z_PRESSINGMATTERS_Full Spread Projects Only-7_o.jpg" data-mid="21391748" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/5 1120_11_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1280" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/5 1120_11_o.jpg" data-mid="21391749" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/6 section_640.jpg" width="640" height="344" width_o="1843" height_o="992" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/6 section_o.jpg" data-mid="21391754" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/7_640.jpg" width="640" height="915" width_o="1086" height_o="1554" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/7_o.jpg" data-mid="21391756" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/8_640.jpg" width="640" height="408" width_o="2048" height_o="1306" src_o="http://payload89.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4080049/8_o.jpg" data-mid="21391757" border="0" align="left"/> SELF-ORGANIZING CITY HYOUNG SUB KIM / HYO YOUNG PARK FERDA KOLATAN STUDIO The water area which surrounds New York City is going to expand and elevate. Climate... http://cargocollective.com/upenn/INTERWOVEN-DELTA http://cargocollective.com/upenn/following/upenn/INTERWOVEN-DELTA Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:17:52 +0000 Penn: University of Pennsylvania 4079944 INTERWOVEN DELTA HO SUNG KIM / EDNA VUONG FERDA KOLATAN STUDIO <img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/1_640.jpg" width="640" height="320" width_o="2048" height_o="1024" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/1_o.jpg" data-mid="21390783" border="0" align="left"/> It has become apparent that the flooding problem in New Orleans has been exasperated by sea level rise, climate change, and human interventions. The extensive damage caused by Hurricane Katrina and Rita has highlighted the desperate need for radical intervention. In recent years, this intervention has taken the form of levees, dikes, channels, and dams. Natural flood barriers in the form of wetlands have not only been successful solutions for flooding, but are also biologically diverse and productive ecosystems. Human attempts to restrict natural flood cycles have destroyed natural flood barriers, hindered their development, as well as destroyed the relationship between the city and water. Despite the limitations of levees, the U.S. Army Corp. has responded to Hurricane Katrina by simply building larger levees. The consequences of these interventions threaten the long term sustainability of the fragile wetlands and increase the risk of flooding. Our goal is to radically shift from a water management approach that is fundamentally restrictive to one that encourages the prosperity of ecological systems. Increased storm surges have made wetlands alone insufficient, so it is essential to reinvent the levee to form a hybrid system that works in conjunction with natural flood barriers to encourage an urban development that incorporates a life with water and nature. By merging infrastructure with wetlands, the relationship between city and the water and nature becomes intertwined. We propose to surround the Lower Ninth Ward with a hybrid wall that will act as a levee as well as a dam. Waterfront and bicycle tracks would run along the wall to activate it. The dams will constantly release small amounts of water inside its boundaries to form an artificial delta within the Lower Ninth Ward. This delta would grow over time, transforming itself into a living wetland within the hybrid walls. As this happens, the urban fabric transforms itself to make way for this new ecosystem to develop a city in which infrastructure and nature are indistinguishable. During floods, the dams would release larger amounts of water into the wetlands to relieve increased water pressure from storm surges. The wetlands would act as a sponge, soaking up flood waters until storm surges dissipate. The disaster protocol deals not only with the short term effects of flooding, but attempts to enrich day to day life by reintroducing the concept of living with nature. <img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/2_640.jpg" width="640" height="494" width_o="2048" height_o="1582" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/2_o.jpg" data-mid="21390785" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/2a_640.jpg" width="640" height="494" width_o="2048" height_o="1582" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/2a_o.jpg" data-mid="21390789" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/2c_640.jpg" width="640" height="494" width_o="2048" height_o="1582" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/2c_o.jpg" data-mid="21390792" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/2d_640.jpg" 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src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/7 SECTION_DAM_path_o.jpeg" data-mid="21390838" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/7b SECTION_CONTROLSTATION_02_640.jpg" width="640" height="320" width_o="2000" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/7b SECTION_CONTROLSTATION_02_o.jpg" data-mid="21390839" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/8_640.jpeg" width="640" height="320" width_o="2000" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/8_o.jpeg" data-mid="21390840" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/8b DAM_03_640.jpeg" width="640" height="320" width_o="2000" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/8b DAM_03_o.jpeg" data-mid="21390842" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/9_640.jpg" width="640" height="320" width_o="2048" height_o="1024" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/9_o.jpg" data-mid="21390846" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/10_640.jpeg" width="640" height="320" width_o="2000" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/10_o.jpeg" data-mid="21390847" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/12DAM_04_640.jpg" width="640" height="320" width_o="2000" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079944/12DAM_04_o.jpg" data-mid="21390848" border="0" align="left"/> INTERWOVEN DELTA HO SUNG KIM / EDNA VUONG FERDA KOLATAN STUDIO It has become apparent that the flooding problem in New Orleans has been exasperated by sea level... http://cargocollective.com/upenn/ZIPPER-NESS http://cargocollective.com/upenn/following/upenn/ZIPPER-NESS Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:44:36 +0000 Penn: University of Pennsylvania 4079755 ZIPPER-NESS SCARLETT ZHAO / CHEN FU WINKA DUBBELDAM STUDIO <img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/1 CHEN - SCARLETT_Page_01_640.jpg" width="640" height="212" width_o="2048" height_o="679" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/1 CHEN - SCARLETT_Page_01_o.jpg" data-mid="21389988" border="0" align="left"/> The concept is to design a system integrated with different functions such as levee, landscape, housing, and public recreations, etc. The concept comes from the zipper – however it has been developed into more than just a zipper-formed structure, it also extends to more complexes, for example, a spatial zipper, a cultural zipper, and even a social zipper. In doing so, we hope that through an architectural way we could blur the existing rigid separations between the higher and lower income areas, the traditional and the modern culture, the natural and artificial. The major problems of New Orleans started from its vulnerability to flooding. After Katrina in 2005 and the huge immigration, poverty concentration has become more obvious because of the unsuccessful rebuilding of the poor neighborhoods. And New Orleans has a strong traditional African American culture between which and the modern development there also forms a rigid separation. By extracting the main spatial characteristics of both and mixing them together, it is possible that the separation both urban and cultural could be blurred, creating more communication between those counterparts and more diversity. Our levee contains mainly four parts – the waterfront which provides recreation, the solid levee which deals with the flood, the mixed area with greenery and infrastructure which connects the original urban pattern and the new, and a set of scales which provides more functions such as residential and commercial. As the system expands along the canal sides, it transforms according to the water force the canal sides take, with two opposite trends for the levee and the housing. The levee goes higher where water force is stronger, while the towers lowering down and pulling back. With two opposite trends interweaving each other, it is possible to create certain beautiful rhythms. The system allows for flooding, by providing different components in each unit such as a capacitor and a resister. The capacitor acts as an emergency way when the levee is over flooded to store water and provides other functions such as water recreation. The resister acts in normal conditions as a standard levee system. By introducing topological interweaving of different spaces, we desire to not only combine different functions together and also other non-architectural elements such as cultural ones, social ones, to eliminate rigid separation exists currently in the city. <img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/2_640.jpg" width="640" height="527" width_o="1831" height_o="1508" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/2_o.jpg" data-mid="21389989" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/3 Bridges_640.jpg" width="640" height="213" width_o="2048" height_o="682" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/3 Bridges_o.jpg" data-mid="21390057" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/4 LAKEs_640.jpg" width="640" height="226" width_o="2000" height_o="708" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/4 LAKEs_o.jpg" data-mid="21390112" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/4b CHEN - SCARLETT_Page_19_4_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/4b CHEN - SCARLETT_Page_19_4_o.jpg" data-mid="21390114" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/4c diagram_640.jpg" width="640" height="138" width_o="1866" height_o="405" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/4c diagram_o.jpg" data-mid="21390115" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/5 CHEN - SCARLETT_Page_36s_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/5 CHEN - SCARLETT_Page_36s_o.jpg" data-mid="21390150" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/6 CHEN - SCARLETT-11_clear_8_640.jpg" width="640" height="350" width_o="1800" height_o="987" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/6 CHEN - SCARLETT-11_clear_8_o.jpg" data-mid="21390151" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/7 Waterfront s_640.jpg" width="640" height="213" width_o="2048" height_o="682" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/7 Waterfront s_o.jpg" data-mid="21390181" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/8 CHEN - SCARLETT_Page_28_11_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079755/8 CHEN - SCARLETT_Page_28_11_o.jpg" data-mid="21390184" border="0" align="left"/> ZIPPER-NESS SCARLETT ZHAO / CHEN FU WINKA DUBBELDAM STUDIO The concept is to design a system integrated with different functions such as levee, landscape,... http://cargocollective.com/upenn/ALTERNATIVE-SOLUTION-AGAINST-FLOODING http://cargocollective.com/upenn/following/upenn/ALTERNATIVE-SOLUTION-AGAINST-FLOODING Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:48:34 +0000 Penn: University of Pennsylvania 4079311 ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION AGAINST FLOODING DAEHEE HAN / YEZHOU YANG WINKA DUBBELDAM STUDIO <img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/Site Plan - Diagrams_640.jpg" width="640" height="922" width_o="1887" height_o="2721" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/Site Plan - Diagrams_o.jpg" data-mid="21388260" border="0" align="left"/> This project is located in New Orleans, where most areas suffer the disasters brought on by floods. Through our research, we found that there are 2 key reasons causing the floods: 1. The gradual subsiding city grounds which make the average topography of New Orleans city lower than the water level. 2. The increasing loss of wetlands that make the fragile city even more vulnerable. So our goal became to create an organic, cellular housing system for a multi-level city in order to free up and return portions of wetlands that have been taken up. A new, mixed eco-urban system will be regenerated. The whole system is created by several types of protocols: Housing, Lower structure and Upper structure. In protocol 1, we divided houses into 3 types according to different demands and needs. By dividing the whole site into 3 big areas, the housing types could be arranged differently. Each housing type has not only it's own private garden space, but a shared public gardens that forms through the unit aggregation. The 2nd protocol is for a lower structure which is an open system in order to support buildings, especially on wetland conditions. Thus, it acts as anchor to adapt when flooding, and it connects to each other like a web to strengthen the entire structure. This intermediate space between these structures could also accommodate public facilities for residents. The last protocol is for an upper structure which acts as a more dense and self-sustaining cluster. This structure also contains public garden space and infrastructural cores. We researched the density re-distribution by dividing the whole site into 3 parts. Field simulations were used to generate the relationships and arrangements of the infrastructure and units. By making traffic circulation in its outer open structure, this cluster could adapt properly in severe future disasters like Hurricane Katrina. <img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/2 intro_640.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/2 intro_o.jpg" data-mid="21388709" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/3 Unit Types_640.jpg" width="640" height="529" width_o="1260" height_o="1042" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/3 Unit Types_o.jpg" data-mid="21388710" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/4 zoom copy copy_640.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/4 zoom copy copy_o.jpg" data-mid="21388711" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/5 wet copy_640.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/5 wet copy_o.jpg" data-mid="21388712" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/6 Section View copy_640.JPG" width="640" height="360" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/6 Section View copy_o.JPG" data-mid="21388713" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/7 EField Density Sys inverse_640.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/7 EField Density Sys inverse_o.jpg" data-mid="21388715" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/8 water rad copy copy_640.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/8 water rad copy copy_o.jpg" data-mid="21388716" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/9 wet copy flood situ copy_640.JPG" width="640" height="480" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/9 wet copy flood situ copy_o.JPG" data-mid="21388717" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/10 tower copy_640.JPG" width="640" height="480" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/10 tower copy_o.JPG" data-mid="21388719" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/11 whole copy copy_640.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/11 whole copy copy_o.jpg" data-mid="21388721" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/12 detail space copy_640.JPG" width="640" height="480" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/5/162968/4079311/12 detail space copy_o.JPG" data-mid="21388724" border="0" align="left"/> ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION AGAINST FLOODING DAEHEE HAN / YEZHOU YANG WINKA DUBBELDAM STUDIO This project is located in New Orleans, where most areas suffer the...