Adaptive Urban Ecologies

source: evolous
Adaptive ecologies explores the emergent logics of adaptation and evolution that are constitutive of ecosystems in nature. Chimera’s vision is to define an urban ecosystem which supports housing and cultural programs and has the ability to adapt, transform, mutate, and adjust according to the specific urban and social character of the site and of Manhattan. This urban ecological system is taking as a model an organism in nature, specifically the mangrove plant. The mangrove plant and its collective the mangal, provide examples of social associative principles as well as structural capacities and hybrid responses to environmental and contextual conditions.
The project’s elevated gymnastics are dealing both with the complex topography of the site and its connectivity to the larger city. The new ground has been defined by creating an elevated plateau generated by the potential directionality of human fluxes on the newly proposed site. This oriented space is being partitioned following a logic of cellular aggregation, embedding neighbouring relationships at different scales, and is also the ground reference of the urban housing massing negotiation. Models from nature such as phyllotaxis and branching have been the driving paradigms to define a parametric machine which is able to create a responsive urban ecology.
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source: chimera-team

Adaptive Ecologies brief explores the emergent logics of adaptation and evo¬lution that are constitutive of ecosystems in nature.

Our vision is to define an urban ecosys¬tem which supports housing and cultural programs and has the capability to adapt, transform, mutate and adjust according to the specific urban and social character of the site and of Manhattan. This urban ecological system is taking, as a model, an organism in nature, specifically the Mangrove Plant. The Mangrove plant and its collective, the Mangal, provide examples of social associative princi¬ples, as well as structural capacities and hybrid responses to environmental and contextual conditions.

The project’s elevated gymnastics are dealing with both the complex topogra¬phy of the site and its connectivity to the larger city. The new ground has been defined by creating an elevated plateau formally generated by the potential di¬rectionality of human fluxes on the newly proposed site. This oriented space is being partitioned following a logic of cellular aggregation, embedding neighbouring relationships at different scales, and is also being the ground reference of the urban housing massing negotiation. Models from nature such as Phyllotaxis and branching have been our driving paradigms to define a para¬metric machine which is able to create a responsive urban ecology.