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Urban Emergence // Renovation Strategies.
(HYPO) T H E S I S : Biologically inspired, urban renovation strategies can trigger a healthier and harmonious urban expansion model. Cities are growing like never before. This is an opportunity to redefine our conception of neighborhood and plan for a sustainable urban environment, inspired on the logics of nature. Eco-machinic Apparatus as a tool [...]
Operational Landscape: Mumbai "slum" Renovation
Urban scale and it´s complexities TEAM: Moises Gamus, Michael Harrison. FACULTY: Luis Falcon, Hemant Purohit Research on the reorganization of flows and forces that give shape to a city. Starting point: THE VOID (i.e. public space). Finding optimal walking distances between main public spaces (250 mts), a network of movility and interaction mingles through the [...]
IaaC Lecture Series_Apr 23 < Joseph Cory
“The Future is (Self) Sufficient” Architect Dr. Joseph Cory Founder of GEOTECTURA www.geotectura.com Specializing in innovative design, and committed to sustainability, Dr. Cory is the founder of GEOTECTURA office that provides creative and practical architectural solutions to social and environmental challenges, using multidisciplinary research methods and open source design. Dr. Cory received his diploma from [...]
para.CITY
Urban loop system By: Moises Gamus & Michael Harrison Uncontrolled urban growth has caused social deterioration and environmental disequilibrium, especially in emergent global economies. Resource scarcity has set an urgent agenda to switch to renewable energetic resources and more efficient ways to distribute them. Current models of urban planning have the limitation of extending [...]