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SkyCar City: A Pre Emptive History
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SkyCar City: A Pre Emptive History
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While the trajectory of technology to include skycars is not
original, and we are replete with many supporting concepts (both real
and fictional), this team of twelve students explored the specific
relationship between infrastructure, architecture, and urban form.
Through out the semester-long investigation, the studio asked the
primary question, what happens to city form if vehicular movement were
removed from the two-dimensional ground plane? Secondarily, what will
these cars look like, how might they behave, and what is the
infrastructural form required to support such cars? What is the
organization of movement and how is urban program arranged? These
questions were investigated in two scenarios: a purely hypothetical city
of 2100 and an existing city, Tianjin, china.
Initial parameters of the hypothetical city included 5,000,000
inhabitants and a limit of 800 meters in height. This design work began
with in-depth research and analysis, both historical (vehicular,
urbanistic, technological) and quantitative (program usage, numbers of
people at localities, physical properties of movement); the efforts of
the studio resulted in a broad range of exploration and scale shifts--
from product design of the skycar itself to urban design of the
essential nodes of the city.
Faculty:
Winy Maas, MVRDV, Grace La, UWM
Students:
Bryan Howard, Anthony Janis, Nicholas Moen, Ryan O’Connor, Trevor Patt,
Ella Peinovich, Nickolas Popoutsis, Tarah Raaum, Gloribed
Riveria-Torres, Scott Schultz, Tuan Tran, Andy Walsh
original, and we are replete with many supporting concepts (both real
and fictional), this team of twelve students explored the specific
relationship between infrastructure, architecture, and urban form.
Through out the semester-long investigation, the studio asked the
primary question, what happens to city form if vehicular movement were
removed from the two-dimensional ground plane? Secondarily, what will
these cars look like, how might they behave, and what is the
infrastructural form required to support such cars? What is the
organization of movement and how is urban program arranged? These
questions were investigated in two scenarios: a purely hypothetical city
of 2100 and an existing city, Tianjin, china.
Initial parameters of the hypothetical city included 5,000,000
inhabitants and a limit of 800 meters in height. This design work began
with in-depth research and analysis, both historical (vehicular,
urbanistic, technological) and quantitative (program usage, numbers of
people at localities, physical properties of movement); the efforts of
the studio resulted in a broad range of exploration and scale shifts--
from product design of the skycar itself to urban design of the
essential nodes of the city.
Faculty:
Winy Maas, MVRDV, Grace La, UWM
Students:
Bryan Howard, Anthony Janis, Nicholas Moen, Ryan O’Connor, Trevor Patt,
Ella Peinovich, Nickolas Popoutsis, Tarah Raaum, Gloribed
Riveria-Torres, Scott Schultz, Tuan Tran, Andy Walsh
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