Edible Infrastructures

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Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations | Video on TED.com


Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/geoffrey_west_t...
TED Talks Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city's population. In this mind-bending talk from TEDGlobal he shows how it w…
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Edible Infrastructures is...

Edible Infrastructures is an investigation into a mode of urbanism which considers food as an integral part of a city's metabolic infrastructure. Working with algorithms as design tools, we explore the generative potential of such a system to create an urban ecology that: provides for its residents via local, multi-scalar, distributed food production, reconnects the traditional waste-nutrient cycle, and de-couple food costs from fossil fuels by limiting transport from source to table.

Our research is conducted through the building up of a sequence of algorithms, beginning with a Settlement Simulation, which couples consumers to productive surface area within a cellular automata type computational model. Through topological analysis and interpretation of the simulation output, we explore the hierarchical components for a new Productive City, including: the structure and programming of the urban circulatory network, an emergent urban morphology based around productive urban blocks, and opportunities for new architectural typologies.

The resulting prototypical Productive City questions the underlying mechanisms that shape modern urban space and demonstrates the architectural potential of mathematical modelling and simulation in addressing complex urban spatial and programmatic challenges.

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Darrick Borowski, Jeroen Janssen
& Nicoletta Poulimeni

Architectural research proceeding from investigations into urban metabolism, emergence and self-organization in biological systems.
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