Edible Infrastructures: Emergent Organizational Patterns for the Productive City (2012)
article⁄Edible Infrastructures: Emergent Organizational Patterns for the Productive City (2012)
abstract⁄Edible Infrastructures is an investigation into a projective mode of urbanism which considers food as an integral part of a city’s metabolic infrastructure. Working with algorithms as design tools, we explore the generative potential of such a system to create an urban ecology that provides for its residents via local, multiscalar, distributed food production, reconnects urbanites with their food sources, and decouples food costs from fossil fuels by limiting transportation at all levels, from source to table. The research is conducted through the building up of a sequence of algorithms, beginning with the ‘Settlement Simulation’, which couples consumers to productive surface area within a cellular automata type computational model. Topological analysis informs generative operations, as each stage builds on the output of the last. In this way we explore the hierarchical components for a new Productive City, including the structure and programming of the urban circulatory network, an emergent urban morphology based around productive urban blocks, and opportunities for new architectural typologies. The resulting prototypical Productive City questions the underlying mechanisms that shape modern urban space and demonstrates the architectural potential of mathematical modeling and simulation in addressing complex urban spatial and programmatic challenges.
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| Year |
2012 |
| Authors |
Borowski, Darrick; Poulimeni, Nikoletta; Janssen, Jeroen. |
| Issue |
ACADIA 12: Synthetic Digital Ecologies |
| Pages |
511-526 |
| Library link |
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| Entry filename |
edible-infrastructures |
