Adaptive City
Research Studio, Fall 2016
Instructor: Winy Mass (MVRDV), Felix Madrazo & Arend van Waart (The Why Factory), John Manaves (IIT)
Collaborator: Renyi Zhang, Qiao Xu, and 8 other group members
Location: TU Delft, The Netherlands
Urban planning and architecture saw a revolution of during the XX Century as data and statistics started to have a stronger influence in the way the city was understood and envisioned. In the past years, The Why Factory has explored a wide array of approaches to envision the role of the future cities.
The Adaptive City studio began with the need of being aware of how our footprint affects the planet, a scale not seen in the modern movement. A catelogue of all components of human settlement was developed. After more in-depth research on one person’s need in the twenty topics, City Zero, the conceptual average city model is established for one million people on 1 km2 land.
The second half of the studio is about the reimagined city. In the scenario-based research, we examine two topics’ effect on City Zero. In City Deconstructed, we break the city into spatial layers and categorize the topics. And in City Reimagined, we test the extreme of one aspect, then generate adaptable models such as the FAR City, the Pixel City, and the 4-Grid City.
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