Synthetic Landforms and Urbanforms
TYPE: GSD core studio
YEAR: 2015
INSTRUCTOR: Chris Reed, David Mah
PROJECT CREDITED: Featured in GSD Platform X;
Cited in Reed, Chris. Generative Modeling and the Making of Landscape, 2018
YEAR: 2015
INSTRUCTOR: Chris Reed, David Mah
PROJECT CREDITED: Featured in GSD Platform X;
Cited in Reed, Chris. Generative Modeling and the Making of Landscape, 2018
This studio uses landscape both as medium and as mechanism as a starting point for testing and prototyping ideas about urban form and city-making. It emphasizes the connections and hybridizations of urban and environmental systems and dynamics, rather than understanding them as oppositions. And it utilizes working methodologies that privilege experimentation and iterative modeling—of playful and critical prototyping—that could suggest pathways toward new landscape-based approaches to urban form.
In most urban design, the runoff network and the circulation system overlaps, but what if we re-orient the runoff network while keep the circulation network, or what if we re-orient the circulation network while keep the runoff network. The dynamic of water activities will happen inside blocks. The city is just like a sponge. The infiltration, runoff, absorbtion, gathering of water will happen under the buildings, behind the buildings, between the buildings. And there will be more diversity of social activity relating to the water activity.
In most urban design, the runoff network and the circulation system overlaps, but what if we re-orient the runoff network while keep the circulation network, or what if we re-orient the circulation network while keep the runoff network. The dynamic of water activities will happen inside blocks. The city is just like a sponge. The infiltration, runoff, absorbtion, gathering of water will happen under the buildings, behind the buildings, between the buildings. And there will be more diversity of social activity relating to the water activity.
