(Class Notes) Infrastructure and Hybrid Development

Pure land (soil) vs. building slab (hydro, pipes)

This is related to urban infrastructure.

Site/Non site: the in between is important, especially in terms of sustainability (highways).  The cloverleaf is the space used, which is equivalent in size to a small town – the bends in the road, the size of the structure depends on particular reasons.

 We are not typically conscious of these spaces.  These non-sites prove efficient transportation.

Think of the reality: We need to deal with better ways to deal with highays, malls and the in between structures.  We should understand this and create new ideas. 

Architecture is not fixed – infra, archi, structure, scape, land, tecture – they all relate and intermingle.

Living/desire (texture/pattern)

We need pattern and desire it. 

Patterns: dense proximity of urban infrastructure (street patterns)

Toyota green design example: The dancers created energy w/ “Pizas” to energize the music based on the movement.

Water importance

Artificial Landscape: Dams.  How it reacts to nature, it’s the precondition of our water.

Amsterdam example: The canals incorporate nature as well as transportation.

Think of the reality: We need to deal with better ways to deal with highays, malls, irregation and the in between structures.  We should understand this and create new ideas. 

Fluid Hybridities:

We are romantically connected to house living instead of high-rise living.

Temporal Conditions

Stadium example: town stadium, low density in urban environment – it’s own town.

On the opposite spectrum: tent in the middle of nowhere still using a TV dish to stay connected to the world.

The need: developers of educated sustainability. 

Hybridity/Identity

Buildings have access to energy.  We can tap into the availability. Many spaces are charged with excess energy potentials. (ex. heating ducts on exterior of building)

There is an importance in using the in-between spaces to create sustainability. 

-       Graveyard placed on a building

-       Driving school on top of building

Weiss Manifeld: Olympic Sculpture Park

-       makes a non site into a site

-       makes a new experience

-       maintains industrial, transport needs, stitching together land in layers.

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The bigger scenarios require staging through layering and linking the elements.