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Almost all of the world’s big cities are situated next to a river. Thinking of increasing population, decline of usable public space and more and more built infrastructure, an important question to be answered is what role can water areas play in our future dynamic cities? The answer is interactive intelligent landscapes – Swarmscapes – which will make use of the water without obstructing its valuable area permanently. Consisting out of modules, these landscapes are capable of providing both additional urban space and performing a new way of infrastructure for pedestrians to cross the water without built bridges.
Analysis
Figure: Connections in Rotterdam
Figure: Connections on Site
Concept
Figure: Future of transportation
Figure: The Maas as main axis of the Expo, connecting all the different sites.
Figure: Design task for the hubs.
Figure: First diagramatic ideas of the concept
References/Impressions
Design for a traffic hub in New York (http://www.designboom.com/architecture/amlgm-urban-alloy-tower-transportation-hub-new-york-04-15-2014)/
Transportation Hub close to a river (http://www.arch2o.com/intermodel-transportation-hub-42-aaron-fritsch/)/
Self-driving boat
The Navy’s Developing Little Autonomous Boats to Defend Its Ships (http://www.wired.com/2014/10/navy-self-driving-swarmboats/)
MIT-Olin's "WAM-V" boat navigated a special course in the RobotX competition to demonstrate motion-planning, control, and autonomy (http://news.mit.edu/2014/csail-meche-marine-experts-win-robotx-self-driving-boat-competition-1030)
