As our cities grow, many irregular and interstitial sites are left forgotten or underutilized. How can we tap into the possibilities for these public dormant sites? Can we envision a new kind of civic infrastructure distributed across the city?
Instructor:
Eui-Sung Yi
SCI-Arc EDGE:
Summer 2020
Design of Cities Studio III:
Combinatory Urbanism, LA Studio
The East LeBreton Flats Masterplan reimagines LeBreton through exploring its place as both a destination and as a neighborhood. What typologies can be deployed to both distinguish and blur the public and the private? We answer this through three mechanisms for design: circulation, podium/plinths, and typology-mixing. Thereby resulting in three design moves: the lacing bridges, the linking logs, and the Asticou towns.
Creating a network of digital beings across our cities. These digital beings gather data through “normal” conversation and derive conclusions that can be used for refining generative design solutions.
Mapping is a practice that catalogs the physical and the cultural. That which is built and imagined. It is a practice becomes vehicles for both how we see the past and how construe our futures. Artifact and Atlas is double-sided triptych that explores the ways in which opposing views and agendas might manifest themselves in the depiction of places and in the imaging of our cities.
Phantom Surfaces appropriates surface analysis as a point departure for an aesthetic regime rooted in digital space. These drawings are then transformed in analog through bad scanning, paper folding, tears and fading to recognize the image as another surface.
The Digital Reef project was an introduction into the process and practice of fabrication. The model’s base was cut via a computer numerical control (CNC) router, solid models 3D printed, and soft models laser cut and folded from paper.