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Projects & researchWind Valley - Hong Kong, CHINAKeystone - Krakow, POLANDCAD, CAM & Algorithmics - Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM

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Twin Quarries - Latrobe, AUSTRALIAHKCG - Hong Kong, CHINAS.Bridge - St. Petersburg, RUSSIA

VideoScape - Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOMFigures In Space - Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM

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W I N D VALLEY

HONG KONG PROJECT

How do you make space where there is none ?

This proposal takes place in the district of Kow-loon, Hong Kong. It constitutes a reflection on issues and opportunities in Asian Cities. Its core design parameters are gentrification, urban regeneration and air quality and aims at linking these topics together to benefit each other.

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Since Hong Kong Island is close to built saturation, the next logical step seems to be Kowloons urban regeneration. This is confirmed by the simultane-ous presence of 3 large scale projects within a miles radius. They are largely responsible for tripling the areas real estate prices in less than a decade and could very well be triggering a Bilbao effect. As much as a well conducted urban regeneration is beneficial to the local population and economy, its collater-al effects, notably gentrification, also need careful consideration during the planning process.

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This project proposes to link Kowloons west with the south east through an under-ground 4.7 km dual 3-lane trunk road. It is commissioned by HKSAR Governments Highways department. Expected to start in 2015 and reach completion as early as 2020/2021, the projects design and plan-ning are roughly estimated at HKD 200 million.

The west Kowloon terminus would link Beijing to Hong Kong with a direct High speed train line. It is commissioned by MTR Corporation, started in 2008 and is expected to be completed in 2015. Its costs are estimated at HKD 23 Billion.

WKCD is the largest of the 3 projects. It is a multi-use development with priority on cul-tural spaces such as museums, theaters, and concert halls. Started in 2006, its sec-ond stage is expected to reach completion in 2026. It has benefited from an up-front endowment of HKD 21.6 Billion from the HKSAR Government.

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It affects cities where polluted atmo-sphere is stuck between tightly packed buildings. This problem may seem eco-nomically unsolvable as Hong Kongs real estate prices keep on rising. How-ever, progress in computer assisted design and engineering might open new opportunities in sustainable design. For instance, Computational Fluid Dynamics enabled the simulation and visualization of wind patterns hitting the urban mass. As impermeable as the city may appear at first glance, a detailed study revealed that some large scale turbulences and irregularities within the citys edges may be harvested and channeled into town. This would allow to re-instigate lost air channels through the streets, purging tox-icity and also countering the Heat Island effect.

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Western winds diverted by the International Commerce Center

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The first step was to assess the terrain in terms of potential for regeneration. This is done visually by rating the state and size of the buildings within the site. Small and damaged ones (darker on the map) are deemed in greater need of attention and more financially accessible to investors. Tall buildings in a good state are disre-garded from the regeneration process.

After evaluation, the site is refined to a smaller area of intervention. The wind corridor restoration is done by carving out a path starting from potential air en-try points, through the smallest and most decrepit buildings, and towards the city center.

Mapping Airflow and the Physical environment

Selecting the Area of intervention

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Within the carved valley, a distinction is made between the buildings. The one in the center of the corridor are marked to be extracted completely, whereas some of the border ones are chosen for greater architectural redevelopment, bringing a potential source of private revenue to the project.

At completion, the project is expected to greatly increase the quality of air and life within the site and its neighborhood, by restoring and enhancing wind corridors while generating rare open spaces.

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Air flowing above and against Kowloon

Air wrapping around the ICC, into Yau Ma Tei

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Once a wind corridor has been carved out through Yau Ma Tei, a re-organization of whats left is necessary. The redevel-oped buildings will serve as foundation to develop the districts core vertically. This enables a reasonable rise in the urban density while still creating more open spaces. Furthermore, it will increase the size of the buildings to match the districts edges.

The footprints of the removed buildings are kept as a reminder of the urban fab-ric and grid. Three building layers are stacked upon each other.Gaps are left between them to further increase airflow regeneration while cre-ating desperately needed open spaces.

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Residential Penthouses

3RD BUILDING LAYER

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Semi-Private Gardens

Public Gardens

Standard Residential development

Affordable Housing

Office Spaces

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Boutiques and Restaurants

Gentrification is accepted into the devel-opment, as a design constant to be built upon. Penthouse development will wel-come higher social classes into the district and increase financial over all viability.

The 2nd garden layer will be exclusively accessible to the people living in the 3rd and 2nd building layers, as a quiet retreat from the buzzing market life underneath.

The 1st garden layer will be publicly ac-cessible, affording pedestrians to circulate higher above ground pollutants in open spaces of better quality.

Although the building chosen for regener-ation will be rebuild from scratch, the 1st building layer will be greatly inspired by Yau Ma Teis market-place-character and mixed use typology. Indeed a similar ar-rangement of residential spaces, shopping centers, boutiques and restaurants will be specified to help blend into the district.

The 2nd building layer will offer a mixed-use development of office and residential spaces. The resulting building blocks are designed to match the pre-existing height (6-8 stories) of the Yau Ma Tei district.

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The gardens are networked together by sus-pended bridges. This follows Hong Kongs habit of forming pedestrian connection above ground to facilitate transit in a high density environment.

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KEYSTONEHow large can we see ?

The focus of this work is on large scale strategy and long term thinking. A central piece of land has been left untouched due to its sensitive historical background. It now longs to be reintegrated into the city which has grown fragmented. This is how opportunities to help both the site and Krakow emerged from a brief initially about park intervention.

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6 CENTERS STRATEGY

disjointednessWandering in and around the site, we were soon struck by a sense of unease. Partly because of its historical back-ground of Nazi concentration camp, but also, in no small part, because of a spa-tial and functional disjointedness rang-ing from the site scale to the urban one. Indeed, within a mile radius of the camp, we found a large array of typologies ranging from touristy historical center to derelict in-dustrial land from the past century. The site was also located within yet another disorga-nized mixed used sprawl of suburban retail, service and housing.

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Industrial area

Green spacesTypology

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High density housing Planning: Redevelopment

The fragmentation of the city was con-firmed in our research: the top left map shows how little coherence and cohesion was to be found around the site. The next logical step was to check if it had occurred to local authorities, and if so, what mea-sures were taken to resolve the issue. Indeed the city was well aware of the sit-uation and planned to remediate through urban regeneration. This was an ongoing strategy that, sadly, proved to have little success in binding and enhancing the

south of Krakow, presumably because of the prioritization of economical ties. In 2013, though, Krakows council commis-sioned a strategic rethinking of the plan-ning policies. Its aim was to help Krakow incorporate 6 of its townships showing the most potential, to help guide forthcoming changes in the urban fabric over the next half-century.Too much information at a time leads to a proportional if not exponential increase in difficulty of the decision making process.

2050 Vision Historical core1 of the 6 Strategic townshipsSolid urban tissueMedium urban tissueUrban tissueSoft urban tissue

The last map (bottom right) aims to com-promise between the amount of informa-tion and its clarity. It represent something that matters to a strategic thinker: the citys capacity to change. Urban areas likely to change for the good of the city as a whole are marked as soft urban tissue.On the other hand, the plac-es that seem less likely to change and already work well, are marked as hard.

Solving through abstraction

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s, m, l, [Xl]After the analysis stage, it appeared that the strategic importance of the site was greater than its spatial attribute alone. This led to the restructuring of the projects brief towards and urban scale approach. The site is used as a Keystone to connect 3 major elements identified by the 2050 vision plan: The historical core and the 2

selected southern Townships.The paths have been easily drafted through the abstract urban tissue, which could then in turn, easily be decom-pressed into the different layers it was build upon. That way, the path could then logically be refined at need, to relate to the existing and future urban features.

The detailing of the 3 connections created on the next page, established the south western one as having the most potential. With these foundations, the sites master-plan could now be developed in coher-ence with its large scale and proximity to the city

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Ecological value

Residential Areas

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a QuarrY, a Path and a death camPEventually, the sites very large scale forc-es a more focalized approach to enable design work. 3 Elements stood out and could be combined in a more consistent design: An abandoned quarry, which has al-ready become a very valuable Eco-sys-

The camp is an ethical issue. How to intervene on grounds which may very well still contain human ashes ? The answer was already answered by the site: Natural succession seemed the most appropriate an-swers of all, even though it implies a paradoxical non-interventionist de-sign. A solution was found through the alteration of the chemical prop-erties of the soil, directly affecting natures processes.

Residential Road Suburban Agriculture

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Walkway Walkway Walkway WalkwayWetland / Suds Reservoir

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tem with its own micro climate, favoring a strong myco-activity. A protected patch of land that bleeds out of the site, showing strategical poten-tial. An abandoned Nazi camp, which has been whipped clear of any trace by the Nazis themselves, upon the arrival of the Russian forces.

The whole sites charm came from the beauty of nature slowly covering human artifacts.The quarry was already slowly starting to

Succession Camp

accumulate gravitational water at a lesser pace. The main design for this part was to increase its hydrology through alteration of its edge topography. A funnel effect is generated this way, bringing more water in and thus increasing mycological activity further more.

The protected patch was to be stretched out into an ecological corridor extending the sites boundaries to reach another ecological reserve to the west. This en-ables the reshaping of its edges and the integration of residential developments.

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Managed GrasslandManaged GrasslandManaged Grassland WalkwayWalkway GroveGrove Altered soil/Wetland

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Mycological Quarry

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CAD, CAM &ALGORITHMICSAre we just using computers, or progressively becoming ones ?

Research within landscape architecture tends to be site specific. Every new project brings a new set of challenges, each needing investigation. However, in most contemporary practices, the need for computer aided design and digital workflows, remains a constant. The following examples explore op-portunities opened by new sets of tools.

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The field of simulations is an interest-ing aspect of applied computer sciences. Once a virtual model is generated it can be subjected to factors such as sun-path, irradiation , wind analysis, etc... These tools find an ever-growing place into Architecture where they help deter-mine certain degrees of efficiency before the building stage.

Environmental effects are also of ut-most importance to landscape architec-ture, especially when using vegetation in a design. A study of the projected shad-ows as seen below, will help determine whether a planting scheme is likely to be successful or not.

Less obvious factors such as at-mospheric pollution are more difficult to simulate, wind-flow however is fairly accessible under the denomination of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The picture to the right shows the result of running such simulation through the

Mong Kok area of Hong Kong. Since the level of aerial contaminants is di-rectly linked to the air stagnation in the streets, a clearer picture of air quality is established to inform the design process.

Not only do these methods help gen-erate and visualize complex data invisible to the naked eye, but it can also be fed into unique codes where it may meet and merge with design precepts. Pushed to its full extend, these processes might some-day help us design living and breathing environments born from the current gen-eration of smart technologies.

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cad, cam & algo RESEARCH

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Algorithmic design and parametrics have carved themselves a polarizing reputation of futuristic organic structures with gradi-ents of shapes in the panels that compose them. Ironically, their high customization degree making every piece unique some-times does not prevent the design from pro-

ducing a deja-vu effect. The field however still remains in its infancy and yet already shows much promise. For instance, when a few design ideas are stretched over the urban scale, its detailing becomes partly highly specific and partly highly repetitive.These CAD tasks become increasing-ly automatable through the creation of custom algorithms that do not necessary need to bear the stigmata of parametric design.Recurring tasks can be identified on the

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spot and coded in an way similar to IFTTT coding (If This Then That). This process quickly generates base geometries and the role of the designer then becomes the one of guiding the algorithms through the design and debugging it.

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Certain architectural processes can be coded for different purposes and benefits. One of the most significant advantages is to become able to get direct quantified feedback from decisions made.

The looping of perpetual self-evaluations into real-time accelerates the develop-ment of a sense for design by removing

any doubts about the impact of a decision. Furthermore, it is an invaluable asset when working on quantified design brief where outcomes need to be accurate and are guided by specific targets.In this instance, a succession of water features is to be constructed on a fixed budget. The parametric customization of the GUI* allowed to generate the display of crucial information hovering above the said water features, such as depth, vol-ume, necessary foundations and estimat-ed construction costs (*Graphical User Interface).

Furthermore, the information may be channeled along with the rest of the build-ing information, into written specification readily available at any given moment during the design process.These new digital methods also open the way towards self-optimizing processes where the computer itself generates de-sign iterations until an optimal solution is discovered.

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In a fast paced industry, quest for produc-tivity is often a core value. Successive dead-lines may sometimes lead to a tunnel vision effect, however when one takes the time to reflect upon the fashion in which tasks are completed, one can notice a certain degree of repetition in the architec-tural tasks. Such recurrences have been the object of sudden dramatic enhance-ments in the past, such as the industrial revolution and the development of mass production. Today, the digital revolution is affecting the tertiary sector as much as the industrial one affected the secondary.

Physical model making remains a key me-dium to help architects understand,design and represent spatial components. It is, however, a very time-consuming activi-ty. The recent increased accessibility of Computer assisted manufacturing (CAM) possesses has quickly been adopted by architects as a mean of rapid prototyping physical models, from their virtual equiva-lents, already generated for visualization purposes.

The figures on the right, represent a topo-graphical model going through a section producing algorithm, which goal is to pro-duce and nest referenced pieces, ready to be lasercut. This process together with its assembly into a lattice, is not only gen-erally done in a days work, it also saves material through the production of a most-ly hallow model, after cladding.

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VIDEOSCAPEHow can we overcome the limitations of static imag-es in a dynamic world ?

Video has become a growing medium within Architec-tural practices. It easily succeeds where still graphics sometimes struggle. For example, passing of time, depth of space and story telling are areas greatly benefiting from animation. The following work focuses on these 2 last aspects, while making use of photographic material harvested during a site visit in Hong Kong. The aim was to underline and link certain elements that would later become grounding points for the architectural design process.

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Videoscape was a week long open work-shop which aimed to explore the use of video as a medium in architecture and landscape architecture. During this time, a video clip was developed exploring the potential of immersion enhancement and story lining.

This experiment occurred between the site analysis and the design work, and aimed to connect the two. The challenge was to relate site pictures and material with an architectural proposal that had still yet to be developed. To do so, it focuses on elements of defining character and the contrast between them. Depth and im-mersion is refined through parallax effect, moving a virtual camera in 3D between deconstructed layers of an image (as seen on the diagram to the right).

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FIGURES IN SPACEWhat can we learn from total creative freedom ?

Art has an important role in architecture, but how can architecture also be a source of inspiration for art? This workshop pushed abstraction of selected architectural features to the boundaries of the rational. Reconstructed in an art gallery, these elements then started a playful exploration of the relationship between the human fig-ures and the space surrounding them.

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The process started by contemplatively drifting through the city, searching for something that had yet to be identified: A focus point, a feature connecting people to space. At the end of the day, such a feature was ironically found in an awkward corner of residual space. A strange alcove with surprising proportions, somehow waken-ing a certain playfulness, hidden away from all the people roaming the streets. As an experimental art project, there was no bounds to our design. We extracted the corners proportion and rebuilt it rotated into a horizontal position. It was not intend-ed to be quietly reflected upon, but rather and object to experience, and play with.Abstraction is often used in architecture, yet it is always practiced within the bounds of a rational workflow. Here architectural abstraction is liberated from its con-straints, to produce whatever it may. At the end of the project, the realization was made that the most interesting part of this exercise was not in its end result but in its process of detachment and outside-of-the-box thinking.

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In design practices, the progress of group work ideally leads to enhanced results. A common goal is established and interme-diary assessment and critics help every-one synchronize. This is an aspect where the art process may differ completely. In a same group, individuals with vastly dif-ferent ideas and opinions, come together in a sort of social experiment. Sometimes, individuality has then to step aside for the benefits of the project.The work on this page shows the dif-ference between the group project (left page) and what was its individual reinter-pretation (right page). Realized after the exhibition was over, it aims to reflect upon dynamic spaces and the feeling of scat-teredness left by the contemporary urban experience. Its production and aesthetics are the diametric opposite of the group work. If nothing else, this is proof that in art as in design, however distant from a common goal individual ideals might be, there is way to compromise and connect them to be found.

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T W I N QUARRIESHow can we pragmatically bring positive change to fossil fuel dependent places?

The competitions theme was about regenerative strat-egies for communities tied to open-pit coal mining, in southern Australia. The following entry made use of both derelict quarries and active ones to sculpt giant, re-usable landscapes over time. This could be achieved through the rethinking of the mining methods them-selves, and the use of local hydrology to accelerate top soil regeneration.

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The strategy tackled issues on different fronts. Open pit mining leaves vast grounds completely scrapped and hard to regener-ate. Therefor, in combination of top soil recreation methods, an overall framework of ecological corridor networking has been developed to link northern, western and southern reserves. Another aspect is the transition-ing from a coal based energy towards renewables. This can be done through careful as-sessment of the remaining re-sources and the establishment

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To be left with usable grounds after the mining is completed, the land would greatly benefit from an efficiency compro-mise. It would aim at providing enough coal for the Hazelwood power-plant to meet its produc-

tion needs while leaving behind accessible agricultural sized parcels of land. This implies that in an initial stage, the mining methods meet the pre-existing agricultural grid (light blue). To then realize an energetic tran-sition, the strategy schedules a progressive switch from deep mining to shallow. This will also

ensure that the regular ground level incrementally meets the deep ends of the mines.

Projections show that an ex-emplary energetic changeover would be more manageable from over 50 years up to a century. This range depends mostly on financial fluctua-

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Synthetic wetlands will help speed up the post-mining soil formation. Rivers and streams will be diverted through the arti-ficial terraces to create biomass on sterile grounds. Through encouraged hydrosere succession, soil regeneration for agricul-tural purposes should greatly be acceler-ated, while potentially generating biomass and food through temporary algae based cultures.

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HK.COGENShould passive architecture grow to adapt to active environments ?

The following entry was created for the 2013 Advanced Ar-chitecture Competition organized by the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Themed on Self-sufficient habitats, the brief remained fairly opened to maximize the creativity of proposals. The scene takes place in the tight urban spaces of Hong Kong. The design agglomerates different ways to har-vest atmospheric pollution to create usable resources.

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An Idea-competition is the occasion to set free Utopian dreams. The difficulty may then lie in finding the correct proportions of prag-matic grounding and visionary concepts.In this case, the ambition was to help reme-diate the toxic effects of urban air pollution. A completely free brief implied the possibility to reverse parts of the process. Indeed, a specif-ic issue was found first and a site was chosen afterwards, instead of the usual opposite.The place of intervention was picked to best stage a very robust design intervention, for its potential replication elsewhere. To make this decision, a few parameter were taken into ac-count. The key factors however, were a coun-trys general affliction to airborne pollutants as well as its potential financial resources to intervene. Further research showed that other characteristics are closely linked to aerosols concentration, such as urban density and cli-matic specificities.

Chinese cities stood out in these areas, knowing fast growth and high level of toxicity throughout the countries. Furthermore, Hong Kong proved even more appropriate because of its high GDP, expensive square meter price and air trapping urban density.Looking into the citys infamous air quality issues, 2 important elements surfaced. First its pollution related losses are counted in the thousands of deaths and billions of dollars, every year. Secondly, pollutant levels go through complex intertwined cycles depend-ing on the climate and human activities. This last characteristic was to spring the concept of a dynamic smart design, capable of adapt-ing to a variety of situations.

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The creative process began with the referencing of the most toxic airborne substances. These where subject to research for chemical proto-cols for atmospheric extraction, concentration and transformation into usable resources.

The aim was to create a structure that would both protect the locals and harvest the chem-icals. Due to its very high density, Hong Kong has one of the highest development of pedestri-an infrastructure, which know an important flow of people. Located above the traffic, they are a place of high exposure to pollutants. This is why the concept was to generate a new kind of pedestrian infrastructure harboring equipment to deal with pollutions hazard locally.

The structure features a cladding of robotic arms holding different standard sized panels designed to deal with different chemicals. The robotic arms can then change position to allow different actions on the structure, such as to protect locals, ventilate or self-cleanse.

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S.BRIDGECan up-cycling be done on a landscape impacting scale ?

In 2014, a daring design brief had for objective to architectur-ally recycle one of the largest nuclear submarines in history. Here, its length and steel are used in the construction of a massive motorway bridge.

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Recycling a 200m long Russian submarine comes with a certain set of physical con-straints. For instance, the brief specified ways to deal with the nuclear chambers, and that the site would be locate within a certain distance from the seashore to accommodate somewhat realistic transport methods.The shape and materiality of the ship naturally led the team towards the design of a bridge, for which a site remained to be found.

In the center of St Petersburg is a large span of the River Neva between the Liteynyy Bridge and the Bolsheokhtinskiy Bridge which lacks any connection across the water. This area has been highlighted in the 2025 masterplan for road infrastructure improvements for the city as a possible link to develop. There is a road in place on the Northern side of the River which creates an opportunity to extend into a bridge linking the Highways on either bank.

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The colossal scale of this nautical behe-moth deserved to be featured and exag-gerated. The design splits the submarine in its length. It then separates the shell from the internal organs. Afterwards we matched each side of the shell with its opposite side organs. In doing so, the submarines volume is almost dou-ble, creating the illusion of a duplicate. Finally, the highway is channeled through the structure.

By letting the structure sit just above water level, it creates a sense of weightlessness, not unlike what it used to look like in deep sea.

Designing a bridge for the first time, some research had to be conducted. An on-line 3D model of a nearby bridge of similar dimension provided basic proportions for structural needs.

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Every bridge needs engineered support, for which many different solutions exist. A lattice truss was the most appropriate to generate stability in the most horizontal fashion possible, without being suspend-ed. This allows for the submarines to face each other on an axis, offering views of dramatic dark shells to the city center, and complex primer red internal organs to the residential districts.

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