Encrypted Rome || HabiLAB

Habitable Laboratory

As you can see nowadays, all the big cities in the world are facing the same problem which is the rapid growth our urban infrastructure which create “urban sprawl”.

We believe that in the future, all agriculture landscape in Castelli will be occupied by this urban sprawl too. We would like to propose the concept of how can city and agriculture can grow and merge together at the same time while still keep producing same amount of product or even more. Our question is “How can the city define itself as a high performance laboratory for agriculture”

RENDER

View 21

By using the method of Spider-Web Bio-mimic which has the initial sense of “habitat, producing and consuming”.  We create the  Spider Web that can connect between global scale to micro scale, from city-city, city-building, building-building, building-urban furniture. By avoiding to destroy all heritage buildings in Castelli, we integrate by using Spider Web that work as multi-channel of water, soil, light and air to grow laboratory agriculture in suitable Micro  Climate that can grow all type of plants all over the year and besides of the much amount of agriculture production, we believe that our proposal will create the new social interaction into this territory and improve the life of Castelli’s citizens.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Encrypted Rome | Arable Cathedral

11030772_10153167093399770_1250615996_o

 

 

 
Over population and mass consumption has created a major problem concerning the production of the human demands. The massive production of crops is causing degradation in the productive land, making it less productive every year. Can populated settlements attract arable land ? Using a circle packing script in Processing software we were able to create the attraction points. While combining it with Amira, medical scientists software which is used to 3d model MRI scans of the human body, using the frames of the animation we were able to simulate a volume creating the density of the attracted points. This is a good example of combining two different software that are used for different purposes for this exercise to make an urban/architectural analysis. The concept of arable cathedrals consists of attracting productive land forming a cross that represents the historical and religious background of Rome. The attracting points surrounds the settlements in Castelli to create a connection between the human footprint and the nature.

Axial production (in this case) will save space and have more area for production and at the same time will make an interactive and dynamic environment for the users to live in balance with nature. The plan for Rome 2025 is to sustain productive land leaving a scope for degradation creating a self-regenerating system. Arable Cathedrals is a place of sustainable production, where spirituality in nature and coexistence in society can be found.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments closed

Layered Growth

 

 

 

 

 

Here what is going to be presented is our vision of the future city of Rome.

The territory is part of metropolitan area of Rome. According to the study of history and the analysis about this territory, we’ve learnt that the city is growing, the population is growing, and the city is expanding in space. Although they would live in areas that now are farms and fields, but for sure their lifestyle would be like a citizen, they need more food, more energy, more transportation, better connection to other areas, etc,. In a word, bigger demand of food and energy. The site now is impressing with its product provided by nature, but can the nature also solve the problem of over population in the future?

 

 

Group member: Ayaan, Angello, Jinyang

 

Read More »

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Comments closed