Green Giant

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Green Giant

The Green Giant is a new urban power plant designed within the dense urban context to provide food, energy and new social programs to the city. Along with the technology advancement, urban life style will change rapidly in the future. High density city will appear within 20 years and Jersey City located near New York City is not an exception. As a result city demands for higher energy and agricultural production to meet the increasing demands. Green Giant, placed in the heart of the urban context will not only provide energy, water, oxygen and food but also generate various social programs within to adapt to its urban context. Flexibility of the tower allows the power plant to change and adapt to environmental conditions to optimize its performance and program spaces will evolve and grow on its dramatic external conditions to become a powerful social attractor, an urban activator. The abandoned rail tracks will function not only as open green space for the public but an infrastructure for green energy network. Fossil fuel shortage has increased the attention for renewable energy development such as wind, biomass, tide, solar and geothermal energy and escalation of the oil price has boosted such attention in recent years. Through the research of the past and the present we can foresee the future and year 2050 can be predicted as such.
Advancement in technology allows for the building and city to self-generate its energy and ‘power plant’ to exist within the urban context. Buildings and cities become autonomous and becomes free from the current network and systems. This off the grid system also applies to the future transportation system. Current road based transportation systems will be air-born into 3 dimensional networks which no longer require the road. Automobiles will be replaced by flying vehicles running on fusion power and the mass transit such as train, subway and trams will disappear and so as the current transportation system and station. Increase in population also demands new system for agriculture. Bio- and genetic engineering allows for efficient agricultural farming for higher yield with minimized arable land; giving birth to the vertical farming system within the urban context. Farming process will be automated with computer based centralized control systems and robotics to grow, harvest and distribute food for the community.
The year 2050 will need to rethink the urban infrastructure to find a solution for the new paradigm. New infrastructure and systems are required for the city to support and maintain its functions. Vertical farming, energy production and transportation systems will no longer exist as separate but as a singular system to minimize energy use and maximizing in production. The project Green Giant is to design a new urban infrastructure for the Journal Square in year 2050.

University of Pennsylvania
Instructor : Matthias Hollwich, Instructor, Principal of HWKN
Studio : Fall 2008
Animation : YouTube "Studio 701 : GreenGiant"

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