Predicted outcomes_ future scenario | Week 6
Through the course of development in project one, a significant process of architectural fiction arose. Although fairly brief in the final submission, the aligned posters highlight a continuity of current fragmented ideologies of social & cultural constructs, environmental issues, and the manifestation of a variable economy.
Present_ prologue
Present_evidence
Evidence is presented on the posters within the second fragment (poster 2) through the expression of diagramatic analysis and map making.
SEQ's population has been projected to grow to more than double its current figure by 2040. With this, population density will grow exponentially, following a similar path to that of New York. Our natural resources, fossil fuels in particular, are depleting at an alarming rate. What remains of oil will only last us another 40 years, natural gas runs out in 60 years and coal in a mere 140 years.
2020_Chaotic scenario
Imagery of chaotic scenarios featured within third fragment (poster 2) through concurrent scenarios - slums, traffic & human congestion, human waste & pollution.
This severe over-population and density will have adverse effects. As living density increases, infrastructure may struggle to keep up, leading to the assimilation of slums. Dense population that depends on a central business district creates an overload in traffic conditions. With transport yet relying on fossil fuels, and increased traffic conditions, we may be looking at turning Brisbane from one of the cleanest cities in the world to one of the most polluted.
2040_Architectural possibilites
Future rendered imagery featured within the third and fourth fragments (poster 3 & 4) through a composition of current solutions and architectural possibilities.
A new and revised public transportation system utilises new forms of technology and links major city centres across Brisbane. This allows for an increase in quality infrastructure that meets the demand of the growing population. With the significant decrease in privately used vehicles city streets are no longer congested, and provides a cleaner and more efficient CBD. The technology in private vehicles as a result changes, with the now dormant vehicles being sort after for materials that could be recycled into the infrastructure.
| The Valdrade proposition to Manhattan is a cohesion of three facets, density, sustainability and diversity. It understands the city as an ecosystem, creating an 'upper city' that would feed to the parasitic 'lower city'.
| The Rapid Re(f)use project by Terreform ONE proposes a scheme that allows for unused waste to be recycled and reconstituted into an expansion on the existing built environment; significantly, an idea to be implemented globally.
| Armenia Skyscraper features an assemblage of structural geodesics (shapes) forming a transition between vertical and horizontal planes, into transformed habitable areas, transportation, and commercial and recreational areas.
This severe over-population and density will have adverse effects. As living density increases, infrastructure may struggle to keep up, leading to the assimilation of slums. Dense population that depends on a central business district creates an overload in traffic conditions. With transport yet relying on fossil fuels, and increased traffic conditions, we may be looking at turning Brisbane from one of the cleanest cities in the world to one of the most polluted.
2040_Architectural possibilites
Future rendered imagery featured within the third and fourth fragments (poster 3 & 4) through a composition of current solutions and architectural possibilities.
A new and revised public transportation system utilises new forms of technology and links major city centres across Brisbane. This allows for an increase in quality infrastructure that meets the demand of the growing population. With the significant decrease in privately used vehicles city streets are no longer congested, and provides a cleaner and more efficient CBD. The technology in private vehicles as a result changes, with the now dormant vehicles being sort after for materials that could be recycled into the infrastructure.
| The Valdrade proposition to Manhattan is a cohesion of three facets, density, sustainability and diversity. It understands the city as an ecosystem, creating an 'upper city' that would feed to the parasitic 'lower city'.
| The Rapid Re(f)use project by Terreform ONE proposes a scheme that allows for unused waste to be recycled and reconstituted into an expansion on the existing built environment; significantly, an idea to be implemented globally.
| Armenia Skyscraper features an assemblage of structural geodesics (shapes) forming a transition between vertical and horizontal planes, into transformed habitable areas, transportation, and commercial and recreational areas.
