evolo submission

(unsuccessful) but still fun collab: yun kong, jenni qin, ros cheong

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Self Replicating City

With the planet shifting with climate, the serious threat of rising sea levels throughout the world catalyses new methods of inhabiting a city, Self Replicating City - SRC - is a direct response to this issue. Set in Auckland's CBD, SRC utilises a combination of 3D printing technology with the Delta Robot parallel system at a building scale: an upscaling of existing technology. Beginning as an 'office garden' parasitic scheme, the robots will eventually manufacture themselves using plant matter grown on a greenroof and interior gardens above as an extruding material populating a new green surface which is inhabitable by inhabitants as a new floating ground level. The robots have the ability to stengthen existing structures, but also to form their own independent self supporting structures independent from the existing city retreating the current ground level up and allowing the natural decomposition of the exisitng CBD to take place.

Advanced Design 1: Environmental Cathedral

Environmental Cathedral was a response to the need for an environmental centre in Birkdale, North Shore, Auckland.

Where most buildings are designed to last 50 years, the structure of the env cathedral is built to last 100+ years

Materials utilise the site as much as possible – brick excavated from the sites natural clay content, and is baked on site using nearby forestry as a fuel and building a kiln out of brick. Once this method is set up, the construction becomes a community driven volunteer effort.

Program such as cafeterias and offices are built on timber platforms designed to be changed based on future programmatic changes, which is held in place by the fired-brick masonary construction. The cafe serving fresh vegetables is in close proximity to the road in order to attract a diverse demographic of future volunteers.

Half of the brick kiln later is used as structure for the ‘dirt cave’ at the heart of the env cathedral – as a material dump. A worm farm decomposes this waste, and the composting benefits of the manure and waste are attained and fed into the nursery and intensive roof.

The other half is enclosed for meeting spaces and classrooms. A timber bridge runs through this space to connect the nursery storage outside to the worm farm, allowing the viewer to be part of the process.

fractal arches

gaudi inspired fractal trees