[2015_MpG] Milan 2015: Metropolitan protoGARDEN - June 10, 2009
Milan 2015: Metropolitan protoGARDEN is a visionary project, its the projection of a dream for a new kind of cybernetic urban ecology; however, rather than with fictional scenarios, the dream is constructed through the systematic and rational deployment of techniques and technologies that have already entered our daily life: google MAPs and Earth, panoramio, flickr, facebook on one side, iPHONEs, computational tools, interactive and robotic devices on the other. In 2015_MpG this instruments are deployed to read, understand and eventually control and manipulate real material processes unfolding in Milan: the intensification of public urban life, the citys global awareness, the concentration of air pollution, the collection of rain water, the accessibility to public transportation, the growth of algae colonies, etc. The 2015_MpG interface extends the reach of such technologies to become instruments of communication and eventually conversation with the city as a large living system.
This video can be read as a prototype, proof of concept of a new kind of urban and architectural interface/infrastructure; this form of machinic architecture is a synthetic hybrid embedded with biological life [physical proto-gardens], remote sensing and actuating capabilities [control and interaction systems embedded in the proto-gardens], performance [Urban Oxygenation, Algae Farming, Microclimatic regulation], computational power [built-in mapping and simulation engines of the MpGs digital interface] and communication capabilities [on-line visual interface and the interactive physical systems].
The video shows a designed customizable interface that provides a real time remote control to the user and visualize the cicle of feedback loop iteractions at different layers. The video simulates how the user,as protogardener, is introduced in a new non-linear representation of the urban sociologic and ecologic complex system in wich his motivated contribution is required to control the evolution of a real evolutionary structure model.
The 2015_MpG experiment is already started with some temporary installations and will evolve in time, cultivated by a new breed of proto-gardeners that will nourish their city with their daily actions: locally and globally, directly and remotely, materially and digitally, through sensors or servomotors. The Metropolitan Proto-Garden feeds and is fed back by the cultural and social evolution of Global Milan, it is an urban machine for the age of ecology.
[UH]: Urban Hydroponics is a prototype for growing plants in nutrients solutions without the use of soil to provide support. It is highly productive, conservative of water and land and therefore particularly apt to the urban environment. [UH] integrates an interactive control system that regulates and simulates its growth in time, suggesting cultivations strategies and harvesting patterns to both local and global users.
[AF]: Algae Farms represent a new prototype of urban renewable energy power plant. [AF] is based on the very efficient process of conversion of solar energy and CO2 in oily compounds preformed by algae. From algae it is than possible to extract bio-fuel, hydrogen and biomass. The prototype can be actualized at different scales, from small installations to large urban farms; larger systems can incorporate research and learning facilities to evolve the technology.
[UO]: Urban Oxygenator is a new prototype for dense urban environments. [UO] is based on the intensification of plants potential to generate oxygen via photosynthesis. [UO] will grow and intensify in relationship to sun light and to the concentration of pollutants in the atmosphere [mainly CO2, CO and thin particulate PM10]. More polluted microclimates will benefit by the relative increase in oxygen production and filtering potential.
[AR]: Atmospheric regulator is an artificial water garden that functions as a distributed rain collector and storage system. Unlike conventional recycling system [AR] doesn't hide its functional apparatus; rather it operates by expanding the climatic effects latent within the management of water and its transitional states (e.g. evaporation). Rain water becomes the protagonist of perceptual games and urban air conditioning processes.
ecoLogicStudio BIO:
Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto co-founded ecoLogicStudio in 2005; the office's work focuses on the design and development of logics, structures, interfaces and prototypes of systemic architecture and urbanism. Computational and interactive
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