With an effort to bridge existing industry with green space for an eco-forward proposal, we first began by quantifying our city into measurable pixel units.
Defining units in different scales allow us to separate zones to experimentally shift and mix units to alter the existing city plan and landscape.
Multiple scales also help us break down and analyze figure-ground depth perception so we can more easily manipulate individual unit density.
Together with this process we can start to transform the existing plan, unit by unit, block by block, building by building, just pixels at a time.
Here are a couple resulting examples created per our process, unique and novel city plans and landscapes.
Once we had the process down, we planted seeds into our site to start growing and transforming our city, pixel by pixel, starting with the industrial zones.
As more and more pixels are introduced, pixel blocks can vary in sizes to create figure-ground depth perception and start to infect the plan systematically.
Saplings grow into definable city blocks, and as we like to call it, new green industry start to overtake the negative voids left behind.
What does all of this come down to? We can assign a pixel value to each measurable unit on a map, give it depth and perception, reorganize and manipulate it, and create a system for growth.
One of numerous possible results, the height and city skyline were achieved through zoning ratios as per our previous studies. These new skyscrapers are the culmination of industry and green space - green industries, where industry and nature can coexist and provide comfortable living.
