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EpiphtiCity: Another Future of chinas Cities

Bo Cao

extreme environment

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nataly gettegno


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(over)population

farmer population

urbanization farmland forest cowater resource

1.34 billion

0.8 billion

0.66 billion

urban population farmland per capita water per capita forest per c

46.6% 14.2% 2743.4billion m 20.3

(over)population

farmer population

urbanization farmland forest cwater resource

0.3 billion

0.006 billion

0.24 billion

urban population farmland per capita water per capita forest per

80.0% 19.5% 2780billion m3

Extreme China


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Beijing Water Footprint

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Beijing

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Beijing

Beijin

Dryland Coverage

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Expasion of Gobi Desert 1990-2000

Mongolia

Gobi Desert

Shelter forest


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Tillandsia exuosa Drawing

Penrith Go

Kokkugia Architects

LEARNING FROM NATURE

Swarm Intelligence

Ephiphyte


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epiphyte: An epiphyte (or air plant) is a plant that grows upon another plant (such as a tree)non-parasitically or sometimes upon some othe

object (such as a building or a telegraph wire), derives its moisture and nutrients from the air and rain and sometimes from debris

accumulating around it, and is found in the temperate zone.

- wikiped

epiphtye epiphytiCity

a layer ofspaces

a layer of

ecosystem

a layer of

landscape

eco-lter

vertical

urbanization

new urban

landscape

epiphytiCity: An epiphytiCity is a city that symbiotically grows upon another city derives its energy from its own self-supplied system and

can ecologically benet its host city as a part of greater ecosystem.

Tank Bromeliad


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water catchment

provide nutrients and

inhabitance for other

species

photosynthes

Roots that function

structurally and biogically

CO2 O

Tank Bromeliad

Sarang Semut


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Roots that function

structurally and biogically

photosynthesis

Anthill

CO2 O2

Sarang Semut


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Project Amazonia: Characterization - Biotic - Epiphyteshttp://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2006/nal/characterization/biotic_epi

Bark

Twig

Humus

Ant Nest

most tolerant to adverse moisture conditions

prefer more humidity

very sensitive to drought


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ROOT

PHOTOSYNTHESIS

TREE BRANCH

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Finding the shortest path

Separation

Swarm intelligence

Pheromone

Alignment

Pheromone

Foo

Cohesion

like any other population composed of a la

number of smaller discrete elements, such a

ants, ocks of birds, networks of neurons or

global economy, it displays a bottom-up col

intelligence that is more sophisticated than

of its parts. In short, the city operates throug

swarm intelligence .


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