london ENGLAND
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
CHIMERA: adaptive ecologies brief explores the emergent logics of adaptation and evolution that are constitutive of ecosystems in nature. our vision is to define an urban ecosystem which supports housing and cultural programs and has the ability to adapt, transform, mutate and adjust according to the specific urban and social character of the site and of manhattan. this urban ecological system is taking as a model an organism in nature, specifically the mangrove plant. the mangrove plant and its collective the mangal, provide examples of social associative principles as well as structural capacities and hybrid responses to environmental and contextual conditions.
the project’s elevated gymnastics are dealing both with the complex topography of the site and its connectivity to the larger city. the new ground has been defined by creating an elevated plateau formally generated by the potential directionality of human fluxes on the newly proposed site. this oriented space is being partitioned following a logic of cellular aggregation, embedding neighbouring relationships at different scales, and is also the ground reference of the urban housing massing negotiation. models from nature such as phyllotaxis and branching have been our driving paradigms to define a parametric machine which is able to create a responsive urban ecology.
sP: what or who influenced this project?
C: ecosystems in nature, mangrove plant, phyllotaxis
sP: what were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?
C: endless forms most beautiful: the new science of evo devo and the making of the animal kingdom - sean b. carroll, techno chicken
sP: whose work is currently on your radar?
C: minimaforms, theo spyropoulos
team CHMERA : pierandrea ANGIUS (italy), carlos pARRAGA-BOTERO (colombia), tomas JACOBSEN (chile), alkis DIKAIOS (cyprus)
tutor: theo SPYROPOULOS
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