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Park South Online CompetitionCalabria,
Italy, 2010http://www.parcosolaresud.it/concorso01/index_en.htmlThe Solar Park South was an international online competition
in Calabria, Italy. The competition’s brief called for a design solution for
the soon to be decommissioned Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway sections between
Scilla and Bagnara, that would both value the local landscape and the
application and enhancement of renewable energies.
Why you deserve a
second shot at glory:
Our response (Slow Uprising) was
not along the requirements of the competition brief; however we sent it for
jury review and publication, since we thought it would give a very different
perspective on the story of the decommissioned highway.Slow Up-rising
Modern infrastructures are extra large.
They facilitate the connection between major urban nodes and allow cities to expand.
They are designed to maintain the large and their existence signals the
dissolution of the small. They cross the deep valleys, bypass the difficult
roads and shortcut the peaks; thus dissolve the small, distant and hard to
reach nodes and communities.
The project emerges at the
critical time when the demise of one of these giants appears on the horizon. A
highway is about to be decommissioned as a new highway would create an even
faster connection in its place. Our proposal is a gentle ramping platform that connects
the top of the by-passing highway to the bottom of the valley. This connecting
platform through time would allow a new form of life to appear. The mono-functional
body that once cast shadow on its immediate surroundings would start to get
populated with life and through time would turn into a unique mix of habitat
and infrastructure. The gradual re-appearance
of the small would both safeguard the extra-large and also introduces new
possibilities for the co-existence of the two.
The proposal is not a solar park
that generates energy for another fast method of commute, It is an eco-park,
but not because it generates more energy, because it questions the very idea of
fast by-passing connections. The proposal is fundamentally skeptical about
clean, fast and advance engineering solutions and it stakes out its territory
on the very spot of one of these failed engineering solutions. The proposed
project does not compromise the slow to the fast or the fast to the very fast,
it is not about compromise. It is a project that embraces life with all its
weight, dirt and inefficiencies.
Credits:
The Lead Designer
firm(s)/ Project Leader(s):Ja Architecture studio Inc (http://jastudioinc.com/)
Team
Members: Nima Javidi| OAA, March, LEED AP| Architect
Moon Joo Lee| MLA,
LEED AP| Architecture Designer
Behnaz Assadi| MLA,
BFA| Landscape Designer
Park South Online CompetitionCalabria,
Italy, 2010http://www.parcosolaresud.it/concorso01/index_en.htmlThe Solar Park South was an international online competition
in Calabria, Italy. The competition’s brief called for a design solution for
the soon to be decommissioned Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway sections between
Scilla and Bagnara, that would both value the local landscape and the
application and enhancement of renewable energies.
Why you deserve a
second shot at glory:
Our response (Slow Uprising) was
not along the requirements of the competition brief; however we sent it for
jury review and publication, since we thought it would give a very different
perspective on the story of the decommissioned highway.Slow Up-rising
Modern infrastructures are extra large.
They facilitate the connection between major urban nodes and allow cities to expand.
They are designed to maintain the large and their existence signals the
dissolution of the small. They cross the deep valleys, bypass the difficult
roads and shortcut the peaks; thus dissolve the small, distant and hard to
reach nodes and communities.
The project emerges at the
critical time when the demise of one of these giants appears on the horizon. A
highway is about to be decommissioned as a new highway would create an even
faster connection in its place. Our proposal is a gentle ramping platform that connects
the top of the by-passing highway to the bottom of the valley. This connecting
platform through time would allow a new form of life to appear. The mono-functional
body that once cast shadow on its immediate surroundings would start to get
populated with life and through time would turn into a unique mix of habitat
and infrastructure. The gradual re-appearance
of the small would both safeguard the extra-large and also introduces new
possibilities for the co-existence of the two.
The proposal is not a solar park
that generates energy for another fast method of commute, It is an eco-park,
but not because it generates more energy, because it questions the very idea of
fast by-passing connections. The proposal is fundamentally skeptical about
clean, fast and advance engineering solutions and it stakes out its territory
on the very spot of one of these failed engineering solutions. The proposed
project does not compromise the slow to the fast or the fast to the very fast,
it is not about compromise. It is a project that embraces life with all its
weight, dirt and inefficiencies.
Credits:
The Lead Designer
firm(s)/ Project Leader(s):Ja Architecture studio Inc (http://jastudioinc.com/)
Team
Members: Nima Javidi| OAA, March, LEED AP| Architect
Moon Joo Lee| MLA,
LEED AP| Architecture Designer
Behnaz Assadi| MLA,
BFA| Landscape Designer
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