The Forgotten.
designing a hybrid platform.
2016
What are the major technological and social forces transforming cities? Since cities emerged thousands of years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity. Their evolution, however, has been anything but linear. Throughout history, cities have gone through moments of radical change - turning points that have redefined their very essence.
We are living in such a moment.
Using the lens of future craft, we have to consider some of the key forces at play in the city today - from energy to building, from transportation to knowledge sharing. Each of these ultimately weaves into a tapestry of citizen empowerment, suggesting the possibility of human participation in operating (and even hacking) the city. Top-down frameworks, the kinds of systems in large multinational corporations, are not enough; bottom-up actions are needed to transform urban spaces. There can be no smart city without smart citizens.
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Today, innovation performance is a crucial determinant of competitiveness and a stimulant in economic growth. There is a growing realization of the need for innovative activities and new opportunities offered by globalization to drive global economic progress. The problem with innovation improvement efforts is rooted in the lack of a platform for society to perform.
This idea reimagines the data center typology as an integrated aspect of urban development, reflecting a vibrant environment in and around the building, and combining data center programs with more community-oriented programming.
Several solutions for integrating the utilitarian program into the urban environment are included in this proposal, including changing the existing facade into a digital display and developing linkages with the immediate surroundings through a plinth with co-work spaces and landscaped terraces.
This approach looked into programming solutions for making data centers more accessible to the public. This concept speculates with the idea of uniting the two forms of storage, articulating a landscape to the public sphere, by inviting the 'stagnation' in the expansion of the creative co-working hub space typology and the number of multi-disciplinary libraries that could be stored in the condition of a data center.
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