Edible Infrastructures | Synopsis

If you are interested in reading more about our work but already have a stack of 'must-read' books on your desk, we've put together this research synopsis to give you an overview of our project and to whet your appetite for the real thing.  Enjoy!

Phase II research is now online

Phase II research, including our second test case, is slowly making its way onto the site.  Check the tabs above for the most recent work which focuses on spatial development of our prototypical Productive City, including:  
 - programming of the urban circulatory network
 - a new emergent productive urban block organization
 - combinatorial strategies for new architectural typologies
In the addition, the new test case in Kunsangen, SE, is our proposal for a productive satellite/commuter city for 150,000 people, on a nine sq km peninsula in the Greater Stockholm Metro Region.  Check it out at here -> Kungsangen/ Stockholm Test Case

Edible Infrastructures Book [online edition]

We've posted a digital edition of the book - have a look above (or on Issuu.)  We are working on making a print edition available (and affordable) for those of you that have asked!
Feel free to email us at info [at] edibleinfrastructures [dot] net - we welcome your feedback.  Thanks.

Hot Off The Presses!

Edible Infrastructures, Vol II is in.  Printed, Bound, Delivered.
Lots of new work in the spatial development of our algorithmically generated urban tissues.
We'll be posting new research from this phase online over the coming days.

Urban Prototypes - AA Research Cluster Launch

We were asked to participate in the panel discussion and launch of 'Urban Prototypes', the new Research Cluster at the AA.  Jeroen and I (Darrick)  presented our work to-date, discussed the role of the 'prototype' in the context of urban design and answered questions as to how our work serves a model for an urban prototype.  The video of the event should be online here, in a few days.

From the Urban Prototypes Research Cluster brief...

"In the contexts of the continued and rapid urbanisation of much of the globe, and the social, economic and ecological implications of this development, the urban prototype is emerging as both a conceptual model and a design practice of increasing relevance. However, the urban prototype has been inflected from a number of perspectives – cybernetic, biomimetic, analytic – and embraced by a number of disciplines – architecture, urban design, planning. Hence we will be working across a range of disciplines and perspectives in order to grasp a coherent and critical understanding of the potentials of the urban prototype. This will be undertaken through a series of design proposals, interviews, debates and symposia, culminating in an international conference, and communicated through the cluster’s dedicated website alongside print-based publications."

Congratulations...

..to one of our team. Nicoletta has been awarded her Master's with Distinction for her work on Edible Infrastructures. Congratulations Nicoletta!

(Sooooo, see you back in studio on Monday?)

Edible Infrastructures - Hot Off the Presses

Here they are folks.  Vol. I of Edible Infrastructures - the first copies - hot off the presses.

It's rewarding to see all this research starting to come together in something you can hold in your hand and flip through.

Feel free to stop by the EmTech studio and have a look.

Or browse the online edition of the book below - click expand to see full screen.

Settlement Simulation in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Click the movie above to watch a test run of the Settlement Simulation, a cellular automata based generative algorithm for distributing dwellings and farms.  The Settlement Sim generates neighborhood-scale aggregations of dwellings and the productive surfaces required to feed the them.  Shades of green represent production intensity (# of people fed / 100m2, lightest green = 1, darkest green =10)