infradelta
infradelta is a system that networks the existing infrastructural and natural conditions present in the Tokyo bay with a new amphibian urban landscape which addresses issues of smart energy, agriculture, tsunami protection, and sustainable living. The system is at the threshold of not only the myriad of river and canal systems, which are integral to the urban fabric of Tokyo, but as well as the various networks of the energy grid, the fresh water systems, waste disposal, and water reclamation.
With a sincere attempt to replace Tokyo’s dependence on nuclear energy and fresh water crisis, the system optimizes the output of existing infrastructures and supplements them with smart energy and water purification. The system could be malleable to any coast line, and as such, has differentiated the bay into ten distinct zones, each unique in its infrastructural output, and thus unique in the programmatic input of the intervention. While it has treated each coastal area as unique, it works as a larger system with itself to provide a metabolism for the whole bay.
Additionally, the aggregation of pieces that make up each “mini bay” are intended to diffuse the force of a tsunami by directing it up the main rivers feeding into the bay, and absorb the remainder into its own metabolic system. One example of which is a desalination filtration system that creates potable water with sea water.
Another element of the program is redundancy--should one element fail, the whole system could still function.
This project was in a studio taught by Mona El-Khafif and David Fletcher.
This project also happened in collaboration with other studios responding to Tokyo's situation, and was part of a conference with the University of Tokyo, Princeton, University of Osaka, University of Nagoya, Columbia University, and more.
With a sincere attempt to replace Tokyo’s dependence on nuclear energy and fresh water crisis, the system optimizes the output of existing infrastructures and supplements them with smart energy and water purification. The system could be malleable to any coast line, and as such, has differentiated the bay into ten distinct zones, each unique in its infrastructural output, and thus unique in the programmatic input of the intervention. While it has treated each coastal area as unique, it works as a larger system with itself to provide a metabolism for the whole bay.
Additionally, the aggregation of pieces that make up each “mini bay” are intended to diffuse the force of a tsunami by directing it up the main rivers feeding into the bay, and absorb the remainder into its own metabolic system. One example of which is a desalination filtration system that creates potable water with sea water.
Another element of the program is redundancy--should one element fail, the whole system could still function.
This project was in a studio taught by Mona El-Khafif and David Fletcher.
This project also happened in collaboration with other studios responding to Tokyo's situation, and was part of a conference with the University of Tokyo, Princeton, University of Osaka, University of Nagoya, Columbia University, and more.