GMU:Urban Development Kit/Organic City

Organic City / Reef City

After some thought I have decided that the aspect I’m most interested and fascinated by at the moment
is the translation of urban, geometric static forms into organic shapes.

What would a building look like, if it weren’t a human-build structure with strict constraints but a free flowing shape,
changing its form to adjust to its needs? What would maybe even a whole city look like?

To deal with these questions I have begun to research coral reefs. I consider them to be metropolises of the sea
as they provide a variety of organisms with food and shelter. Even though they cover less than 0.1 % of ocean surface,
they harbor 25 % of all marine species.

For this project I would like to try and “translate” a city (or part of a city) like Weimar into a reef-like structure and see,
what changes emerge through the organic shape-building. Maybe some of these realizations can even be of use
in the process of future urban development connected to global warming.

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  Anonymus Urban Ignorance Meeting

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  Idea Doodling

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  coral types

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  reef structure & polyp

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  on-map sketch

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  map sketch

Inspiration:

• architectural 1
• architectural 2
• Zaha Hadid Architects
• Katsumi Hhayakawa
• Louis Reith
• Tom Beddard (vid)
• Tom Beddard
• live vid of corals

ProSkin

So I changed my szenario a bit from the coral city to the really disturbing future city.

Now I'm trying to concentrate on ONE aspect of that city, which is the No-Touching-Policy.

I created a szenario out of that....

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