the sum-things propose an urban redevelopment in detroit, mi, based
on an intention of re-introducing the notion of neighborhood. cities
that are split up into large, mono-functional areas, such as Detroit,
tend to rely heavily on mobile infrastructure to connect these areas.
People in such cities travel by car throughout their city and the
sidewalks are deserted. Sidewalks, in turn, are important public spaces
where the inhabitants of a city are presented to their context, both
sociologically and physically.
in generating the emergence of a neighborhood, Swarm Detroit!
utilizes a swarm logic derived from multi-agent based systems such as
bird flocking and fish schooling. The resultant morphological
configuration of the site is emergent but based on specific behavioral
rules inherent to the system. a color-coding analysis of the emergent
structures on site represents the differentiated and diverse spatial
and functional qualities within the neighborhood. The color-coding is
based on the parameters: distance to motorway, distance to site border
and distance from ground.