The Digital Gardener
author(s):Matthew Tanti, Susanne Hofer
WHAT? WHY? HOW?
What?
The project’s main function is to create an oasis where the individual or a small group of people can find a place to relax and escape from the hectic RDM site into a calm and tranquil natural environment. The project is designed in such a way to accommodate different group sizes of people, ranging from crowd to individual. These spaces are all open to the public, and the spaces will be chosen naturally according to the number of users.
These landscaped platforms will not only serve as mere relaxation/entertainment areas. By including specific species of vegetation, grey water from the river is pumped up to the top, and gets filtered as it percolates down the platforms. This would create excessive clean water then the project actually needs, hence also supporting the neighboring projects with clean water.
Why?
Refer to the site.. site analysis
The people in the area need to be furthermore entertained?
Where can the hedonist find his well deserved dose of fun?
Developments
In the second week the concepts has been further developed; the focus of this project is to create an oasis which would contrast the surrounding environment. The aim is to come up with a way to provide the inhabitants/visitors of the area with a warm environment where they could swim and enjoy fresh and clean water all year long. This floating tropical water park will also be used as a green house to produce a small amount of food yield which could supply the small restaurant. An attempt to include aqua-phonics could also help in connecting the fresh clean water also with food production... (still an idea reading about technical problems related to this technology at the moment) The concept has further developed, into a water filtering system with the idea of 'oyster-tecture'.
Connections
Brewery, HYDRO^3
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