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| Caution: Brainstorm is coming Brainstorm Collector Through reflection, a society will find its problem. Problem is like garbage. To solve the problem, a society needs to recycle its garbage. To rectify its problem, it has to recast it and refine the pure cause out of its problem and then reserve it. Through research, a society can reinvent a problem. Using the pure cause as the resource, a society can recreate problem counter the problem. in the other word, a solution. A solution will revive from the problem and represent itself back to the society with respect. Then a society will have a revolution. To achieve this goal, a society have to build a brainstorm collector. A storm is formed by the encounter of high pressure and low pressure. A person can have a vision that he won't necessary achieve, but his vision is still there, hovering. Without the eager, a vision is an abstract. Eager is the like the high pressure and vision is like a low pressure. When vision and eager meet, there will be a brainstorm. It is consequential of where the brainstorm hits. If the brainstorm hits a weak ground of the society, it will cause the social landslide. If a society has a system to respond the brainstorm, it can prevent the social landslide. If a society has a system to harvest the brainstorm, it will flourish. |
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| Program II Left: Farms; Right: Factory |
The Factory as the Solution of the Future
Recycle Plant
The garbage is the reflection to its society.
The garbage is the sinner for its lost purpose in life. It is left from the people. Its body will not just die but decay in landfill. Many of them will not rest in peace, because they are spelled to live in hell on earth and forever forgotten by the world.
I envision a cathedral of the unwanted. Sinners, the garbage, can go there for their salvation. They will gather in this monumental structure, the nave of the garbage. They will confess to the recycle workers who learn to distinguish the materials from the unwanted. Those workers are the local people whoever want to learn or work, and they are trained from the recycling workshop, the monastery. The garbage will be deconstructed into pieces and categorized into different zones as the confession rooms. In the smelter hall, they will go to a series of processes to purify themselves. Eventually they will be baptized and restore to their pure and materialistic forms. Through the factory, the unwanted will regain a new purpose of life.
Through the stage of redemption purification and resurrection of the garbage, people around are inspired by the miracle work of recycle program. They will not be able to despise the miracle workers if not respect them. Some might be aspired to want to work there. And those who do not work there, will be more active in their individual recycle program, or start to control their consumption and waste. After all, people pay to enjoy the goods from the factory. They must have some extend of understanding what they are made out of. It is a strong statement by putting the recycle plant as part of the factory. As Christians said the good miracle that Jesus turns water into wine, this factory will turn garbage into the tools we need to better our lives. I believe that is the parallel in all religions. People can participate the belief, solution to problems and making the life better, in different scales and forms. The statement and hope from this monument will aspire people to pursue its mission regardless of who they are and wherever they are in the city and beyond.
Laboratory
The laboratory will stimulate creativities. Along with the monumentality of the building, the inventors will be very aware of their decisions. Unlike the office building where people can hide thing easier with paper, the inventions will reflect the minds from their inventors. That working dynamic will bring the user and the creator closer. Inventors just need to pick between respect or disregard.
Shaft/Server and the Production Hall/Served
This factory needs big and flexible space for its intensive piping and expansion. In order to have uninterrupted space for the industrial installation, it needs the dedicated space as server. Essentially this server space is the vein of this factory, so I envision series shaft spaces within the spaces of the mega structure. The mega structure and the pipeline will be exposed like the monumental columns of the classical temple to draw the respect to the activities within it.
Relaxation Space
Relaxation is necessary for workers. The space that can offer the city view from the height will give the worker dignity and remind their duty because of attached statement as the presence of the factory itself.
Pollution Chambers
Factory makes pollutions. That is the major reason why people don’t want to live around it. In order to challenge that perception, we can create methods to deposit it in the chamber so it doesn’t contaminate the air. When the polluted air is less active in the chamber space, we can analyze the chemical compound in that air, and apply the chemical to collect it. Scientist might actually use the alchemy to harvest the molecule for possible usage. Of course, it wouldn’t be as ideal as above, because some industries’ pollutions are too heavy. But through careful selection of the industries, we can find out which industries are appropriate in this intent. Eventually, the selected industries will create more goods that people trust and rely on, and eventually evolve whereas the industries with heavy pollution will decline and become history.
Convention Hall
To transform the consumerism world is not just eliminate consumer activity, but to transform the way people consume. The convention hall and product exhibition area are important to bring people. People can be inspired by the innovative goods, whether they buy it or not. People will unintentionally turn their shopper’s hype into the passion of the environmental couscous practice. That will create the dignity and confidence among those who work there.
High-rise Argitecture as the Framework of Future
A Symbol to Celebrate the Work of Nature
Along with the industry, I want to bring agriculture back to the city in the high-rises. I propose one monumental high-rise farming structure that elevates the respect of nature and food production. This Agritecture might not be cost-effective in the short term of production, but its presence will bring the people of the city one step closer to the food source that serves as the symbol to reach a larger audience. People will elevate their respect of food when they enjoy the work of nature in vegetables and live stocks, even if this awareness might cause some people to become vegetarians. Those who choose to eat meat will hold an appreciation and a consciousness in consuming, similar to the ancient time where people would pray before sacrificing a lamb. People who realize their survival dependence on the sacrifice of others will use more conscious methods to preserve and cook, and push the potential of the food source to their limit. Through this monumental high-rise farming structure, the food will gain the respect from people regardless of its source. Simultaneously, citizens of the city will be aware of what is happening away from city from worshipping the presence of this iconic farming space.
A Facadeless and Programless Skeleton
The open space of this framework will be flexible to configurations. That means the program will adjust to its condition. The farming space will create a better condition for the inhabited space while the occupants can always live to see the ideal spot to inhabit and build. Every floor on this framework is a site itself. Imagine the building structure with the strength of the elevated highway to handle the force of the trucks or trains. People can plot their dwellings on the structures as if they do it on the ground. It will invent a new dynamic on the faces of the city streets. As the emerging of high-rise buildings, this high-rise farming will eventually lose its sunlight to its others. It is ok if this high-rise farming loses its ability to produce food. Hopefully the next of its kind will carry the responsibility from it. The shaded space might become an ideal space to inhabit and invite other types of infrastructure or dwelling to plot. Possibly, people will bridge both new and old buildings if the new building shares the same characteristics of the framework of my proposal. People can capture the characteristics of the street level and recreate it off the ground. Imagine such framework generate into a much bigger scale. People might as well think of a transportation system to go with that framework. After all, it is easier to build an elevated railway than digging for the subway. This set of framework will redefine the urban typology in terms of the street level and subway. We might one day see the trains weaving through the skylines of the city like how the visionaries from the early 20th century envisioned the future city to be. As the ancient civilization always start with source of food to establish a village before it become a city, these high-rise frameworks will serve as the food production first, and then they will establish a new typology for future developments. The facadeless and programless skeleton can constantly reshape its appearance and purpose to the generations to come. Instead of digging a tunnel or build a village in the mountain, we build the mountain.
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| Program III: Morphology of Program through Time (From Vertical Farming to Future Urbanscape) |
