INFRASTRUCTURE IN TRANSFORMATION, A SPATIAL STUDY ON THE VALUES OF OBSOLETE MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Architecture and urban design (MPARC), MSc
Publicerad
2020
Författare
Jarneving, Carl
Modellbyggare
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Sammanfattning
Our cities are complex systems in perpetual motion. They are the
very reflection of our current and past societies. They are the physical
manifestation of layers of time. Where past civilizations stood with
their temples and other religious structures as embodiments of their
time, we stand with our skyscrapers, airports, highways and other
infrastructural elements as monuments of our age.
In an ever globalizing and transitioning world, systems and its supportive
structures change over time. On a path to a sustainable
future, the mobility sector and notion of private ownership is likely to
go through considerable transformations.
Modern cities are centralized around the car, with streets, avenues
and highways pulsing through the city’s most central locations. They
represent a network of barriers and potentials. In a shift to a public
space city, these structures would undergo transformation. Some
would be considered obsolete remnants of history whereas some
would be readapted for a new purpose. This thesis aims to, in a
speculative manner, investigate and visualize the potential of such
transformation. The research is conducted through a series of spatial
experiments with both general and site specific approaches. It investi-
gates what inherent value these structures might hold when gradually
transformed and how they can be imagined as catalyzers for new
hybrid typologies and urban synergies.
The methodology used is a parametric generalized model of an infrastructure
system with Gothenburg as a test site. Given the standardized
nature of these systems, they are categorized into typologies
and with the help of a parametric model the thesis proposes a system
applicable to multiple infrastructural scenarios. The outcome is a
suggestive design scenario visualizing, for a selected and representative
site, how an area could use a specific selection of obsolete
infrastructure elements to create a new hybrid typology: a responsive
compilation of functions adding value, restoring local ecology and visualizing
how deconstruction and upcycling can be used as a initiator
of change.
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infrastructure, mobility, typology, hybrid, speculative, public space, catalyzer, obsolete, urbanization, transformation