Shape Computation Lab

Rhizome | i75/85, Atlanta, GA

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01. The power set of three strands of memory and program.

Jean Kim and Simon Lee

ARCH 6051: Computational Design Studio

Athanassios Economou, PhD

Architecture Program

College of Architecture

Georgia Institute of Technology

Spring 2001

 

Keywords

Housing; Urban highways; Urban modules; Landhuggers; Shape grammars

Urban space (housing + working + shopping + parking + entertaining) is conceptualized as a dynamic construct engaging multiplicities of speeds and degrees of engagement of public and private interfaces. This project envisions such structures over the interface of Atlanta I-75/85 highway with the city itlsef in the fom of rhizomatic spaces that spread obliquely to it. The highway paradoxically cuts through, divides, but also structures the city. Starting from a typical zoning program the project is organized transversally, aiming to connect existing sparse programs along the highway (public transportation, student housing, parking lots, football stadium, social housing, popular restaurants). Spaces and paths function as a fluid whole floor plates distort, shift, merge and split to create hybrid open spaces that maximize the presence of the site. Its order is not generated by static forms, but by transient deformations and discontinuities, within which fragmentation and difference occur.