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I would like to continue the spirit of disciplinary mash-up and present or talk about the risks and beauties of hyper-public from an Architect's point of view and I would like to use a real project as a case study to discuss the issues The case study the project is the design of a new campus in the deserts of Hasselheimer In case I'm not sure how many of you know where Hasselheimer is Hasselheimer is a One of the seven Emirates in the UAE So it's located in the Persian Gulf It is about one hour northeast of Dubai and two hours northeast of Abu Dhabi in 2009 the shake of Hasselheimer agreed to fund the joint development of a campus together with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL where I'm located with the ambition to first focus on a few key academic issues that deals with the Particularity of that site with energy solar energy wind energy water management and Urbanism in an extreme climate But then to later scale up to become a knowledge city The site that was given is this double rectangle here in the middle of the deserts On a road that connects the new Hasselheimer to an airport that is now being constructed We were asked last summer to look at the project and develop Proposals ideas of what a campus could be in this in this century at this particular location These are a few images from the site visit So there's really nothing around On the desert, but it's a beautiful desert at sunset. It becomes completely red The program itself is quite straightforward. There's a learning centers, which is learning activities Auditorium classrooms libraries, then there are labs around it common social areas like cafeteria prayer rooms and Restaurants and then major infrastructures and lodging and sports Maybe the only difference is the strict separation of male and female students here now the idea started With the or the project the initial idea for the project was that rather than creating a typically closed completely closed gated campus Which pushes the? Ultimate of private mess the project really started with the desire to do the opposite and Explore how put public could we go could we create a space inside the campus? That would be more public than what is around it We also wanted to avoid typical developments in the Middle East that look like and gigantic golf courts with some Houses around it so resorts that Uses a lot of green which in turn uses of course an absent amount of water and in state we proposed a bottom-up data-driven approach where we map the Climatic Particularities of the site the winds the water the sun The ambition was to grow a campus where it makes sense ecologically so to build Buildings where there's natural cooling from winds or whether it's natural shading from the topography and to grow parks whether it's natural water from from from the rain or from the groundwater Here you see a map of The Water spots or the low points natural low points where water naturally accumulates And the proposal was to use these points and turn them into oasis Micro-oasis around which then the campus would be organized So here are some early visuals that have been created by one of our students Jean Willinger So this is actually a project that we took on as an academic project with a design studio architecturally the Space is a large Completely fluid open space where the condition of seeing and being seen is maximized essentially it is a Multiplication of another building the EPFL learning center, which is the partner institution That Laurent also showed this morning Where again you have a space without solid walls everything is fluid but you in when you inside the Complete publicness the fact that you can see everyone and everyone can see you Is actually not disturbing at all, but rather gives you a sense of Comfort a sense of safety perhaps similar to what you feel when you are in a Swiss city Where everyone cares for you and watching what you're a bit what you're doing from an digital technology point of view the plan was to create a network of sensors that would sense the location movements and activities of People inside so that's the campus would have an awareness of what's going on inside and could greet Visitors by the name of provide personal services like and not unlike what you know from minority reports or You could find someone inside the whole campus by conducting searches in real-time physical search and And by displaying the data shadows of people the campus or the buildings could also accelerate chains and counters perhaps or Suggest affinities among people of course if you have all those kinds of proposals there's a the question of the risks and Dangers of Privacy and privacy in Invasion becomes inevitable and the question is really whether You actually there's a necessity to actually design the private the privacy just like we designed the publicness whether there's a necessity to have Little shelters little walls or even devices like scrumming devices Like this one, I think that Adam you're involved in this project But our position is that there should be less and less even no necessity to design the private if and Only if the Publicness the hyper hyper Publicness of the space is adequately designed so if especially if There's for example no Central or private entity owning the data or there's full transparency over Who looks at the data or what is actually being captured and Made explicit and visible such as in this art project by Marie Sester Strike my memory is the high wall garden wall walls around every home and everything How culturally do you enter this notion of hyper transparency into a culture that seems so closed behind walls Well, this is the whole premise of the project instead of gating what is inside the campus to create a Privacy or publicness differential that is larger inside than outside Right, but I don't think it's a problem over there crime rates. Hello. If that's the problem I don't know why the walls were there. I'm just saying the walls were there. So are you gonna get rid you anticipate some resistance? From local people to this very different view of their world No, okay