CRYPTOPOLIS - Sky Garden City

Ethos The proposal considers 2 issues regarding air rights and rights to territory. These 2 are commercially and administratively interrelated, and provide a potential solution to continued urban growth and also embrace the impact of new technologies. The Proposal The proposal addresses the need for territory of certain socio-economic groups who are normally excluded from the benefits which generational wealth can deliver, by partnering with capital in the re-envisioning of the city and seeks to provide an insight into the place and impact that architecture can have in society. and the creation of equity. Site The potential use public space over the street and walk ways, and the reality of air rights in the city, is well established in the City of London, however it is seldom made manifest. But that scenario replicates well to North American models of planning and development. This site had been vacant and awaiting development since 1945 WW2 and is used as a car park whilst its embedded value hitherto had not been utilised. Structure and Materials: Waste plastic harvesting provides the structural reinforcement and external frame for an eco-concrete coral form construct. Modern construction methods make up half of the processes used along with digital printing and rapid prototyping construction methods. Economics of space production The proposal creates additional synthetic land mass at an aerial park level suitable for enhanced permaculture, leisure, and commercial possibilities, the net result is to provide 10 times its footprint in useable territory per 60 floors of construction, without compromising light penetration, given its valuable city location this provides a new economic model for development and the release of embedded values. Politics of space production Those disenfranchised from access to land would become key stakeholders if such constructs were considered as an element in the re interpretation of high density living, and shared capital. Sky Gardens and Aerial territory The gardens and permaculture environments provide opportunities of urban farming and leisure activities. The creation of aerial landscapes and the curation of surface design will herald new forms which maximise production thresholds and proximities giving rise to new hybrids. Transport Distribution and transportation modes continue to develop including drone and personal transportation vehicles, this proposal anticipates these new interfaces, with layered aerial territory creating safe transport routes more akin to the risk level of the elevated Highway rather than the as yet unconsidered consequence of a freefall encounter with groundscape. Energy sustainability As an energy generating structure the internal void of the towers contain wind turbines fuelled by and enhancing the vortices created within the void areas and the structural skin of the towers. Prototypical space use The hotel, the apartment, the office. The future hotel room provides the basis for the inhabitation of the building, virtual technology allows for immersive environments reducing the need for business journeys and making their short term use for leisure and connecting with friends and family more tangible, delivery by drones of food and goods allows partnerships to be created with the local community within and outside of the building.