The grad options studio will attempt to investigate a number of issues throughout the semester that have to do with quantities, which gives us the title "Strength in Numbers". I am shifting the scale of studio work this term to focus on larger aggregations of buildings. The studio will be designing a small city that will be an extension to Chicago along that lake in Indiana. There are about 3000 acres of industrial land currently occupied by steel mills that we are looking to transform by the year 2110. The super dense development is designed to house the influx of climate refugees from coastal cities. While it is clearly not the best approach, I am curious about an urbanism created by architecture. The example that I presented in the lottery is the United Architects WTC proposal. The project is able to create a "city in the sky" while preserving a finer scale at the ground level. The project is both icon and urbanism.
The studio will make use of various technologies to explore the task of designing a city. Digital Project will be used for the generation of building forms that will attempt to increase density but not at the cost of the occupation of the ground / public plane. To further test these conditions the studio will be using the virtual reality CAVE on North Campus. Given that we will be developing digital models, we will be able to immersivly represent the proposed environments.
The studio will explore the production of rules to define form and space. Rather than focus on the design of one building, these rules will be varied to produce multiple buildings. This approach will force a shift from the search for the singular right form and will instead draw the focus to the crafting of the code, rule, and algorithm.
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