Subject: TU Delft Studio
Year/Semester: Fourth/Second
Involvement: Group Project
Year/Semester: Fourth/Second
Involvement: Group Project
The Why Factory is a conceptual thinktank studio from TU Delft seeking to explore new realities of the built environment. The studio begins with asking questions and follows through generating potential outcomes that could solve the problems generated. The brief given to this semester was The Green Dip, theorising the future of built environment that facilitates organic matter encapsulating all surfaces.
The project was a combined effort from 36 students working closely together with MVRDV's founding director Winy Maas. Divided into chapters the studio developed a body of research including justifications for why we need this outcome, how to respond and visualisations of which I was group leader. Finally the project calculated the benefits in categories such as Potential Energy, Biomass, Particle Absorption etc.
To accomplish an accurate calculation, thousands of plants and trees were categories based on growing requirements and sorted into respective Biomes and major cities in each Biome were selected for experimentation. Architectural Elements were generated for the facilitation and integration of the species and the architecture of each cities structure was replaced with green elements. This allowed us to visualise the new cities with an accurate depiction of their current architecture, modified to be "dipped" in green.
The inclusion of green elements was to maximise the realism of the outcome as opposed to opting for greenwashing and collaging plants onto existing structures. The desired aesthetic of the visualisations was to withdraw the presence of the architecture and allow the green to take priority, visualising the idea outcome that one day we would have urban forests.
Architectural Green Elements
Architectural Green Elements
Architectural Green Elements
Visualisations
Green Calculations
