Your challenge You are the architects, engineers and designers for an imaginary city of the future Your team has two tasks. 1. Design one building where you will live 2. Design one public building: for social, retail, sport, business, transport, cultural ,entertainment, educational or health purposes
Think about Global Challenges Energy Transport Food Extreme Weather – temperature, rainfall, wind Housing Health Happiness
Think about local challenges and amenities.
A river can be a risk …
…but also a great amenity.
Begin by thinking about people… What will people need to make their lives happier, smarter and safer?
What materials will you use for your buildings of the future? Natural cement? Self cleaning surfaces? • Straw bales? Graphene? Mushroom based • materials? Super reflective tiles? Self healing concrete? • Bio roof? ‘Sweating’ Roof? • Heated driveways? Germ repelling surfaces? • Clever paints? •
Task 1 Your house of the future
What will your house look like?
How can you make your home and outside space really smart? How could your home respond to you and your immediate • needs? How could your home be more comfortable for everyone? • How could you use data? • How could you use robots? • How could you use digital art? • How could your home change to suit a family as changes in • size? Which objects in your home could connect to the outside • world to improve your life?
Flint House Best new house 2015
Where will you live? In a single family house?
Medium density Victorian terrace
Medium density Abode
High density Vertical village Singapore
Remember you are designing the house of the future. Anything is possible! Think about every room • Brainstorm ideas for how you could make home life easier or • more fun Think about every moment of your day and make a list of all • the little problems as well as the big ones – how would you use science, engineering or technology to solve them?
Task 2 Your public building of the future
When you are creating your public building think about … Who is your building for? • What would make your building smarter? • How could your building make the people who use it happier, • healthier or more productive? How could your building or outside space help to connect • people with each other? Could your building have more than one use? • How could your building connect people with the outside • space?
Remember…this is your city! • Does everything need to be at ground level? • What could go underground? • Or underwater? • Or up in the air?
The Dragonfly building
This is an idea from Gensler to turn old tube tunnels into cycle ways
Parks can be above ground too. This is the High Line in New york
What will the school of the future be like? How can learning spaces encourage life long learning? Do you learn well in places other than the classroom? Where and how do we learn best? How do we make sure that people know about all the learning opportunities in their city?
Teton Valley Community school, Idaho
Corporacion Educativa y Social Waldof in Bogota Columbia
How can buildings be used for more than one thing?
Exciting buildings and places can make a big difference to a city. Can you think of buildings which do this?
Wembley Stadium
Foster and Partners/Marseille Vieux Port
Zaha Hadid’s cultural center Baku, Azerbaijan
Vancouver House Canada
The Fishing Hut
Think about… What information would make a city smart? • How can a city support the needs of everyone who lives • there? How do we create a city which is great for people and for • the environment? How could technology make a difference? • How could sensors make a difference? •
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