Scripted Urbanism
From Velo
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Novel Urban Strategies and Techniques
We are moving from an on-site and off-site urban assessment to the formulation of a systemic site argument and attitude.
The attitude is cultivated and finds universal expression in structural and infrastructural speculation. Systems are tested on multiple scales and optimized for the highest degree of connectivity .
Probes into the Urban Ecology are processed and reveal meaningful relationships between local behaviors and global expressions. Agents and networks are studied intensely and rationalized into computable sub routines.
Privileged operations are abstracted into a parametric design engine that generates organizational and spatial propositions for both, the Bike Loft and the Plan.
Urban Ecology
This can be seen as something between an urban analysis and design proposition.
We begin by re-reading our existing analysis as the beginning of a description of the urban context of Red Hook as an Urban Ecology. We will understand this term from the point of view of complexity science - that is to say that an ecology can be understood as the complex interaction of multiple systems of agents at multiple scales which cooperate to produce a Complex Adaptive System.
Re-reading our urban analysis in this way, each student will select a subset of agents and systems from this overall urban ecology, to produce a "section" through the red hook ecology.
Urban Script
Starting with the language, mine your recently acquired scripting vocabulary for operative terms and appropriate them in the context of the planning exercise. A structural syntax emerges. Explore the presented wealth of conceptual freedom and apply algorithmic rigor. A Velo Script emerges.
Possible Systems
parametric objects
(operates at furniture / building scale)
keywords: adaptive, iteration, bifurcation, folly,
node networks
(operates at building / urban scale)
keywords: cybernetics, urban attractors, l-systems,
dynamic growth system
(operates at building / urban scale)
keywords: recursion, artificial life, complex adaptive systems, history,
inter-modal path system
(operates at urban scale)
keywords: path optimization, speed - slowness,
Possible Scales
body / furniture
event / building
network / urban
Possible Players
Identify a meaningful relationship between two agents (players) in the urban ecology. What is the specific or role? How do they operate on different scales? How do global expressions emerge from local relationships.
Attractors (ikea, cruise, soccer, bars, vendors, fairs)
Networks (subway, bus, paths, one way, galleries)
Bike (zone, radii, stands, repair)
Suggestions
From research to design proposal: Parse the existing research in a meaningful way - "we see the world in terms of these relationships". From specific example derive your report of systems in red hook. Consider performative criteria and work from example. Discover things at smaller scales, which are evidence of global systems or ecologies. See interwoven aspects of these systems - beyond isolating scalar differences. simple local relationships have an impact on global systems. Understand specific relationships between players. Establish a rule-based design systems. Find an abstract machine and operate it in the infrastructural and velo context.
