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274_Seetharam Vallabhaneni and Mauricio Casian: Giga Village

Submission #274 | Seetharam Vallabhaneni and Mauricio Casian: Giga Village — Giga village is a project that aims to provide innovative workspaces and services to the neighborhood by creating a highly walkable/pedestrian urban community center that offers unique experiences at the intersection of technology and culture. Giga Village packs modern technology and vernacular craft into the density of a pixel by combining the digital and the analog.

216_Carlos Esponda: Social Landscape

Submission #216 | Carlos Esponda: Social Landscape — "The importance of the recuperation, improvement and revitalization of the pedestrian mobility, urban and public spaces is constantly mentioned without considering the human. In most cases the relation and correlation of buildings are more important than the dynamism and interaction of the human in public spaces."

152_Tiakum Ao: Beacon

Submission #152 | Tiakum Ao: Beacon — "Located along the south side of the Arno River in Florence Italy, the proposed waterfront projects can be seen as beacons, attracting residents and tourists alike. Circulating pedestrians from the dense north to the more tranquil south. Translucent panels rise around the facade illustrating lightshows, and interactive play. Qualities of heavy and light are characterized with the use of light steel framing, and heavy translucent program.

145_Cameron Fullmer: Polar Flux

Submission #145 | Cameron Fullmer: Polar Flux — "This project was completed as a part of the Arctic Design Group (ADG) traveling studio in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway; the northern-most permanent settlement in the world.  Under the pilotage of Dr. Matthew Jull and Leena Cho (founders of ADG and Kutonotuk), I studied the conditions of coastal material fluctuation, permafrost resilience, and seasonal accessibility: all defining factors in Arctic urbanism."

128_Phillip Goodbread and James Jackson: IL NEXU

Submission #128 | Phillip Goodbread and James Jackson: IL NEXU — The proposed project is a result from the analyzation of the social and physical experience of Vicenza’s rivers. Relating the existing context, we unveiled a fractured pedestrian system with an inconsistent fabric of connectivity with the city periphery.

114_Kyung Kuk Kang: Brasilia Elevated

Submission #114 | Kyung Kuk Kang: Brasilia Elevated — Brasilia: vast-scale, planned capital city inaugurated by the president Kubitschek in 1960, is the city built for automobiles following the modernist city planning principles. Wing-Axis highways that run through the entire city from north to south, Superquadra apartment neighborhood units which serve huge portions of citizens who live distant apart, the city Brasilia was designed to have an efficient circulation around the city with segregation of different sectors.

16_Antoine Wendling: Myeongdong Twisted Towers

Antoine Wendling: Myeongdong Twisted Towers — Between the Seoul Museum Of Art and the Dongdaemun Design Plaza Zaha Hadid, the idea is to create a "cultural line" by adding the Myeongdong Twisted Towers (161m) and its hanging museum. Étroire a road through the parcel originally been transformed into a public square with a central park

13_Carlos Esponda: Navigation and Pedestrian Mobility

Carlos Esponda: Navigation and Pedestrian Mobility — The maps presented are the partial results of the thesis: "Navigation and pedestrian mobility" in the historic center of Santiago, Chile. Conducted in the graduate program: Master of Territory and Landscape, University Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile. The research sought to reveal the actual degree of interaction between the system of streets.