The landscape as an emergent system from the urban fabric

HYBRID LANDSCAPE

Devloping specific moments in the system

The living module

The Building Blocks

The Emergent System

the system of landscape that emerges ties the existing urban tissue with the mesh of the marsh

Exploring the Algae farm

Addressing the issue of an algae farm was of interest as a marsh is an algae field in its most basic form.
the exploration was to move beyond a horizontal condition to that of a 'LIVING LAB'; where the algae cells manifest an architectural scale

Half way Through...... 10/25/10

The initial programming for the marshland with its 3 integral components of experimentation, experience and evolution

concept mapping

the mechanism

living landscape

on site transformation

model

community dynamics

zooming in at the individual module

site formation

temporal transformation

a new landscape

marshland mechanisms and architecture

the process

developing the new creek community, a dynamic relation of the module and the marshland

a new edge condition, penetrating the hard edge to redefine the porous edge of the marshland

Fluid studies on the site , a strategy for determining stable region of development

Design Defined

Spatial M oRphInG