Portfolio Review Jan 2013

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Chemical Brothers Star Guitar

Our brief was to produce a time based drawing of

Michael Gondrys Star Guitar video for the Chemical Broth-

ers, we were asked to combine orthographic, isometric,

perspectival and photographic means to represent the

spaces described in the sequence.

The video was of an animated train journey between

Nimes to Valence in France, with everything in view outthe window passing in time with the music. Below are

some stills taken from the Star Guitar music video. The

first thing that I did was to look at the objects passing by

and its relationship to the sound wave. T he image to the

right lays out the length of the track against, the sound

wave, the journey, and marking significate moments in the

video. After looking at the whole length of the some I then

zoomed into 10 second, seeing how the sound waves

bend up and down as a new building passes by.


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Chemical Brothers Star Guitar

To analyses 10 second further I made a sound wave

animation using After Effects. Below are some stills for

the animation. The animated sound wave can be view

at: http://charliebarnard.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/

chemical-brothers-star-guitar-chronogram/


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The following image is a Chronogram

from Nimes to Valence in France

the way. The drawing looks at the tra


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Project 2

DLR Soundscape

Our brief was to make a space-time analysis of the DLR. I

based my analysis from Bank to London City Airport, look-

ing at the sound pollution of our city. I stood in Canary

Wharf listening to the humming of the air-conditioning

and rumbling of trains passing by. As I moved east the

sounds still continued buzzing, even in Robin Hood Gar-

dens which was designed in such a way to reduce sound

pollution entering the estate it still managed to find its

way in. As I went toward the water things became quieter,

looking at the water and how the sound waves are reflect-

ing in the ripples. In the film below I wanted to see whatit would be like if you could see sound, and how a new

landscape could be created from the sounds of the city.

The DLR Soundscape film can be view at: http://char-

liebarnard.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/soundscape/


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Bank to London City Airport

Soundscape

The film ends with an animation of a new typology cre-

ated from the sound recordings from Bank to London City

Airport.


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DLR Datascpae

I started by looking at how oyster cards work as a mas-

sive tracking system telling us where Londoners are. This

is also the case with car number plates, flight number,

phones, internet etc

What can be learnt by knowing the location of the cities

populations What happens to all this data? Who is

looking at it and using it?

The DLR is run by a computer system intelligent enough

to do the job of a large amount of drivers, who would

be needed daily to operate all the trains. Are machines

starting to take sole control over our movement, putting

us directly into their database

By knowing where people are located adver tising could

be more targeted, like how the advertising that you see

on facebook is tailored to your profile.

How much more can this invade our lives The big lights

of Piccadilly Circus Covering Canary Wharf with ad-

vertising to promote buying, to support the banks stock

market inside If allowed how far would advertising go

to keep us consuming What would the world look like if

advertising brought the rights to colour.

The DLR Datascape film can be view at: http://charliebar-nard.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/datascape/


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DLR Datascpae

As the world develops more cities are being created, with huge populations of people

migrating towards the cities to seek work and opportunities. Erection of high-rise towers

and flashing advertisement has become apart of modern day life of living in a city. Being

surrounded by the electronic signboards of Piccadilly Circus and flashing advertisement it

could have a better relationship with a SF movie rather than how we traditionally define a

city. The modern city has excelled the technical definition with its wallpapering of advertise-

ment and lighting.

Is the sign the building or the building the sign?

Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi, 1994

The urban fabric of our modern cities is changing the identity of our architecture. As sig-

nage plasters our city, cities are losing their cultural identity, as one city star ts to look like

another, as the architecture is hidden under blankets of poster s and lights. The purpose of

this being to keep business in business, and as a refection of this citys wall paper, desire

among our society is created, and consumerism continues.

This branding is also visible at our city gates, airports, upon arrive you may be greeted by

Starbucks Coffee before being able to recognize the country you are in.

airports have now, all the new ones, also become shopping malls, into

museums, finally into the city itself (Future City: Fredric Jameson pg 255)

The financial districts of the world seem to be in their own bubble all together. From Canary

Wharf, New York, Dubai, to Hong Kong you can familiarise yourself with the corporate glass

high-rise architecture. From visiting one financial district to the next, one is able to maintain

the same daily routine, eat the same food and experience the same climate in the environ-mentally controlled towers.

In these financial districts you are able to shut yourself off from all other realities and

places. This same fantasy space is carried between districts in different countries allowing

one to completely cut their selves off from the rest of the world erasing it from their reality.

Where culture was thinnest, will it be the first to run out? Is emptiness

regional? Junkspace, Rem Koolhaas pg150


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DLR Datascpae

Sigmund Freud founder of psychoanalysis discovering a new a approach to understanding

human personalities, which he believed were hidden in our unconscious minds.

Freud developed the theory that humans have an unconscious in which sex-

ual and aggressive impulses are in perpetual conflict for supremacy with the

defences against them. In 1897, he began an intensive analysis of himself. In

1900, his major work The Interpretation of Dreams was published in which

Freud analysed dreams in terms of unconscious desires and experiences.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/freud_sigmund.shtml

In 1923, Freud published The Ego and the Id, which suggested a new structural model of

the mind, divided into the id, the ego and the superego. Freuds nephew was Edward

Bernays and he was the founder of Public Relations in America. Public relations connected

organizations with the public in order to find out their desir e, which companies could then

market to.

Bernays was the first person to take Freuds ideas about humans being and

use them the mutilate the masses. He showed American corporate for the

first time they could make people want things they didnt need by linking

mass produced goods to their unconscious desires. Out of this would come a

new political idea of how to control the masses. By satisfying peoples inner

selfish desires one made them happy and docile, it was the start of the all

consuming self which has come to dominate our world today Adam Cirtis,

The Century of The Self Part 1 of 4.

In Adam Curtis documentary The Century of the Self, looks at how consumerism started

and evolved. Edward Bernays found a way to connect the public with products, creating

desire. Before the first wor ld war people brought only what they needed, but Bernays help

to create the culture of desire.

This desire would keep alive mass production, which was a new manufacturing process

founded for the war to produce weapons. Once the war was over there was no longer a

need for this productions line, in order to keep it alive consumerism was created.

This images explore to what extent will businesses go in order to keep people consuming.

As Edward Bernays discovered we are refections of our environment therefore if adver-

tisement wallpapers our urban environment this could result in an increase in product

consumption.


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Reactive Advertising

The short animation looks at how adverts could react to

human behaviour, changing the immediate environment,

suggesting that people could be in the same place but

experiencing different environments.

The Reactive Advertising animation can be viewed at:

http://charliebarnard.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/

reactive-advertising/


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Canary Wharf

This model was used to cr eate the animation. This image

shows the camera route taken to create the short film.


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Unplugged City

The Unplugged City animation can be viewed at: http://

charliebarnard.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/unplugging-

the-city/


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Plugged City

This images represents how our movement and

actions are recorded and a plugged into big com-

panies so they can concentrate their advertising

and marketing. Our behaviour is being recorded in

order to promote consumerism.


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Time

This diagram represents one month, each cube representing one hour. The solid cubes are the hours of a month,

which is taken up by advertising. The diagram is based on a 31-day month containing 744 hours, 148.8 of which are

consumed by advertising. This is based on TV advertising where, 12 minutes per hour is devoted to advertising. What

would you do if you were given this time back? What if you could choose how you consumed advertising, deciding to

sit 6.2 days a month of solid adverts to have the rest of the month visually free

The image to the far right is a college of a protest, were the public are protesting against hyper advertising, the idea

is if adverts are removed form our society there would be more space, time and freedom.


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Protest

As advertising increases and continues to wallpa-

per our environment protest take place appealing

for freedom back. As data collection gets out

of control every step people take is monitored.

People have started to lose their identity and have

be come a data number on a computer.


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Not content with existing offshore

Freedom Ship is a floating sh

imagination is nowhere clearer th

Capital does n

Libertarian seasteader, Mare li

nature is that water resists occ

Water is free because it wobbles. Th


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The London diagram below was

tended to be used as a grand mast

social & function areas. Using the ide


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The financial districts of the world

to Hong Kong you can familiarise

district to the next, one is able to m

In these financial districts you are ab

is carried between districts in dif

Where culture was thinne


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We have developed a culture wh

current consumer product we

keeping up with the time, keeping

Baudrillard suggests that just as th

fictional. We live by object time: by

cession. Toda it is we who watch th

it was timeless obj

time-travel is (probably) impossible

libidinal deadlocks. the idea a gap/hole through which one ca

domain where excrements vanish a

Beyond of the primordial, pre-onto

on with the excrements, the ima

daily reality, and Lacan was right in c

with what to do with its excrements

the horrifyingly- disgusting stuff ree

passage to a different ontologica

that we perceive/imagine excremen

Zizek talks of the disconnection of

reality of our waste, what is this

The only way


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Fishing Village Animation


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Fishing Village Animation

View animation at:

http://charliebarnard.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/

fishing-village/


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This is a quick sketch diag

At the top of the pyramid is the in

but superficial. In the middle of the

evolve over time. At the bottom of t

ronment, changi


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This is my thesis diagr am; I have trie

project to represent research theme

written refe


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I am planning to make a docum

thesis themes and points of intere

Thesis Trailer


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I feel that the balance between fiction and reality has changed significantly in the past decades. Increasingly their roles are reversed. We live in a world

ruled by fictions of every kind mass-merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the pre-empting of any original response

to experience by the television screen. We live inside and enormous novel. (Ballard, 1973)

Looking at the start of consumerism with the work of Edward Bernays and ho

way we live and design architecture. Man has become slaves to their own ma

for their own survival and falling into debt.

Reviewing these environments against science fiction it is hard to decide whether we live in and real or fictional world. With mass consumption comes mass waste as products are designed with sh

disposable lifestyles we lead, Zizek suggests that we cut out waste from our

to carelessly consume.

Thesis Trailer


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This thesis reviews the possibility that

if we are reconnected with the natural

environment, will this effect how much

we consume and waste, and will this

change how we behave, live, and

design a city.

Urban Concept- Garden City of To-morrow


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Garden City of To-morrow was designed by Sir Ebenezer Howard and was

published in 1898 in the UK. The idea behind the utopia master plan was

to create a mix of city and nature which people could live in. The new city

design was to be free of slums and aiming to provide a better standard of

living for the working class. This would allow the city to be self contained

where people would work and play. The city would be surrounded by green-

belts to persevere the natural around the towns. The Garden City was

designed to give relief to over populated cites and once a Garden City was

to reach its maximum capacity an other one would be built.

The city is planned out in a circular shape with a central city area which

everything else is planned around.

With in my project design I want to embody the importance of living within a

mix of city and nature, maintain mans connection with the natural environ-

ment. There is also the importance of the city centre and area where the

community can meet, interact and enjoy leisure activities.

Urban Concept- Black Rock City


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Black Rock City is home to Burning Man Festival, it is the third biggest city in the Nevada Desert for the one week a year it stands. Burning Man being the lar gest Leave No

Trace event in the USA. At Black Rock City has an alternative way of li ving with no money, freedom of expression and creativity. Rod Garrett helped to develop the master plan of

the city, the city designed with a geographic centre where the Burning Man is located, this gives an identifier of ones position by providing a visual bearing at ever y radial road.

The Man is located in the middle of the Playa, which is also filled with installations, art cars and structures (sometimes burning). The central playa provides an area where the

community can meet and enjoy social and creative activities, due to the cities design the residents are able to easily navigate to this area.

A gap in the circle of the citys master plan is there left open to invite the natural world into the city. The break in the citys circle provides a humbling view into the vast desert and

sky. When I went to visit Black Rock City I walked to the open edge of the city, it was so silent and as you looked out into the Nevada you felt like you could suddenly see forever.

This gap in the city, which allows you to see into the horizon, allows the re-connection with our surrounding natural environment, something that it almost impossible in most cities

in the world.

From looking at Garden Cites and Black Rock Citys master plans I believe that it is very impor tant to have this connection with our natural world, be it seeing into the distant

horizon or being able to experience fast green spaces. What these two citys plans also have in common is the circular plan and central community space, something that I believeis important in order to gain a sense of community and to be able to navigate yourself easily around the city.

Urban Concept- Decompression Zone Freedom of Movement


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Always having views out the city to see the

horizon. Maintaining a connection with the sur-

round natural environmentRemoval of Boundaries

As the peoples home are constantly cha

mean there is a removal of city boundarof movement and removing the constrai

boundaries and city walls

With the floating city people are able to m

around freely. With the creative commun

of the Island and the outskirts of the isla

ples floating houses, giving them the fre

detach their homes to the island. This to

the island is constantly changing, therefo

people who live there. A city is only as b

people it has there, all attaching their flo

to create a larger settlement.

Full fill creative Desires

Where we are currently surround by des

city will promote creating desire outlets,

ment, shaped by the people who live the

Constants New Babylon: The Hyper-arc

Page 169 - Utilitarian norms such as tho

functional city must yield to the norm of

mans way of life will be determined not

Creative social city space

Horizon

Moving settlements arranged

around the citys facilities

Evolving Urban Plan

The Projective Cast- Perturbed CirclesRobin Evans


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Robin Evans

The point of centre.

The ideal type of the Renaissance church was central in plan and surmounted by a dome. In this form the a ge found

its most perfect expression... Every line, inside and outside, seems to be conditioned by one central re gularizing and

unifying force, and it is this that accounts for the static and restful quality characteristic of buildings of this kind. The

four arms of the cross are in dome is distributed equally to all parts of the building. A stat of fulfilment, of perfect be-

ing reigns throughout [Projective Cast p.3 (Joseph Conrad, The Secret A gent, Toronto, 1984. p 43)]

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Shopping- Town Centre

Consumer Madness


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Consumer Madness

In our current capital cities and towns the centre is surrounded by shops. Shopping has become a leisure activity

buying for desire rather than need. A product of modernization is not modern architecture but Junkspace. (Rem

Kooolhass, Junkspace p.136). This central Junkspace encourages consumerism. If these shops were to be taken

away from our town centres, what would stand in its place, which could also full fill the desire of the consumer.

The high street shop can cause society to behave in odd ways. Shoppers have been know during Black Friday sales to

become aggressive and there have been reports of assaults, shootings and people trampling on other shoppers in

order to reach their product to full fill their consumers desire.

The erratic behaviour of these shoppers on Black Friday 2012 was reported by the BBC;

As shoppers flocked to the stores, various incidents were reported:-A man reportedly pulled a gun on a shopper who punched him in the face while the two were waiting in line in a Sears

store in South Park Mall in San Antonio, Texas late on Thursday

-A couple heading into a Walmart on Thursday night was hit by an SUV driven by a driver police suspect was under the

influence of alcohol

-Video footage emerged from a Walmart store in Moultrie, Georgia, showing a large crowd of people pushing, yelling

and grabbing boxes of mobile phones off a shelf; Walmart said nobody was injured

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20458895

This report reveals the anxieties and behaviours caused by the consumerist market and the pressures it imposes

onto people. In Adam Curtis documentary Century of The self he looks at the start of consumerism with the work of

Edward Bernays.

Bernays was the first person to take Freuds ideas about humans being and use them the mutila

showed American corporate for the first time they could make people want things they didnt nee

produced goods to their unconscious desires. Out of this would come a new political idea of how

es. By satisfying peoples inner selfish desires one made them happy and docile, it was the star t o

self which has come to dominate our world today Adam Curtis, The Century of The Self Part 1 of

Looking at the work of Bernays, could it be possible to redesign desire, replacing the town centre

alternative, which does not mean the consumer would have to r epress the feeling of desire, but t

something which does not have such a damaging effects on our environment and have such a lar

Remember that our basic message is We are allowed to think about alternatives. If the taboo i

live in the best possible wor ld. But there is a long road ahead. There are tr uly difficult questions

know what we do not want. But what do we want? What social organization can replace capitalism

leaders do we want? (Zizek, At-occupy-wall-street-transcript, 2011)

How could we redesign the desire for the highstreet...

Concept DiagramPurchase of

Resources


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Monetary System

Corporation

Business

The Masses

Public

Society

The Inventors

Designers

Engineers

Scientists

Patent System

Funding

for Resources

Controlled Release

TechnologiesMoney from

Retail

Capitalise

Product

Consumption Waste

Product Waste

Resource Waste

Energy Waste

The Inventor

Designers

Engineers

Scientists

The Masses

Public

Society

No Release control

of TechnologiesSk

Product built

to last

Resources

Resources

Education

Energy

Resources

Material

Resources

With out controlled release dates of t

cation and shared skill bases among

edge of survival rather than what is

technologies, find cures for diseases

Our current world evolves around a monetary system. Inventors ideas are limited to the amount of exposure they receive and businesses controlling the release dates to the

masses, holding back societies development. The inventor is also limited by money as this controls how much resource they can afford in order to develop their ideas, again

holding back our development. Currently products are capitalised, designed to break within a short life span in order to kee p the masses consuming. Skills are learnt by how

much that skill is worth in labour time, rather than how that knowledge can benefit our quality of life. Within this system of control their is also mass waste which is destroying

our natural environment and consuming resources.

Masterplan Development of City Centre


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The masterplan has been design to allow the city to be self sustained, where an Island is able to produces its own food, water and energy. In relation with crop fields, the plan has been broken down into different segme

the city with needs to live independently. Between buildings there will be a collection of horizontal and vertical gardens and water reservoirs providing c lean drinking water.

The plan has been organised in a way to minimise travel distance between the citys functions, with the main functions centre in the middle.

Sketch Development


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Hand Sketch Development

Bubble Structure


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Bubble Structure


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Research Laboratory

A key driver of this project is to excel research and learning through open sourcing These laboratories become atool to investigate


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A key driver of this project is to excel research and learning through open sourcing. These laboratories become a tool to investigate

and discover new sciences, designs and technologies. Using nature as the engineer, man can learn how to li ve in harmony with the

planet, rather than using the worlds resources to generate technologies, but learning from many technologies that exist within na-

ture. Learning how to live with nature r ather than against it. This would hopefully result in a change of attitude towards our current

products, which are superficially created with short life expectancies, but instead designing to last and live for longer.


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modular form lends itself well

roa

Constants New Babylon: The Hyper-a

that it now amounts to less than that

to seek his social contacts either in pr

more or less imp

With the transport space detached from


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Developing Form


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Energy from the Sea

This will be a self sustain city living off natural energy

resources from the sea The central core of the island will


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resources from the sea. The central core of the island will

generate power from the seas movement and circulate

this directly to into the citys centre. Cords coming off

the city will be used to connect floating houses to the

city, and providing them with power. This form of energy

generation has no pollution waste products and does not

consume the earths minerals.


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Hydrogen Production

Some of the tentacles in the water will split the water in order to create Hydrogen, which will inflate areas of the city.

The tentacles will act as a photocatalyst suspended directly into the water which is more efficient than the traditional


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use of electrolysis used for water splitting in order to create hydrogen. The left over product of this process is oxygen

which will be allowed to rise through the water in bubbles and breaking on its surface and released into the atmos-

phere.

Battery

- +

Anode

Cathode

Oxygen Bubbles raise

to surface

Harvest Hydrogen

Bubbles

Natural Sail


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Portuguese Man of War Fish Fin Leaf

Birds Wing Birds Wind Butterfly Wing

Drift Map


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Carbon Nanotube

Carbon Nanotubes are extremely light and strong. The usual from for carbon is in a diamond or graphite, Graphite is

made up of many sheets of carbon atoms, one on top another, in which each carbon atoms is connected to three

th b t i th l Di d i t t h d l h i hi h h b t i t d t


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other nearby atoms in the same plane. Diamond is a tetrahedral shape in which each carbon atom is connected to

four other nearby atoms in all three dimensions. Carbon nanotubes differ to diamond and graphite as they have to be

synthesized artificially. The carbon nanotubes are formed into a hollow cylinder of carbon atoms. The tensile strength

and lightness of this material allows it to have great application to structural engineering. In this project it is proposed

that the tentacles are made of carbon nanotubes.

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Capillary Network

The carbon tubes will work together like a capillary network. The image below left, is a section of a capillary, each

strand of carbon will act as a capillary used to filter and transfer water and nutrients from the sea to the city above.

Energ can be har est thro gh mo ement of ater thro gh these t bes and c hanges in press re Energ can also


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Energy can be harvest through movement of water through these tubes and c hanges in pressure. Energy can also

be harvest from the collective movement of the strands from the sea currents. The image below right demonstrates

how the carbon tubes can connect and work together as a network system. These tubes will also be used to direct and

steer the island.

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Salt CrystalsUsing the by-product of producing drinking water to construct the city

The by product of filtering sea water to provide the city with drinking water will be salt. T his project will explore how

thi b d t ld b tl d i th t ti f th it l l ki t th t l f ti f lt T h


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this by product could be partly used in the construction of the city, also looking at the crystal formation of salt. T he

drawings below are a study of crystal salt construction.

This would be a sustainable material to use to construct the city as is it is a by product of producing drinking water

and any salt which was to enter back into the sea would cause no harm as it returns to its dissolved state.

Salt Landscape


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Utopian Dream- Film Stills

This film looks at the floating open source city as it drifts

past the UK. Offering people the chance to escape the

city, walled in by its own architecture and incubated in

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office space. The island cleanses consumerism, washing

over advertising which causes anxiety, freeing us from

our incubators and allowing us too see into the horizon.

The film starts in London, where areas of the island are

projected onto the city in a dreamy state, expressing the

wonder of people thinking beyond their current environ-

ment. Is this floating city a utopian myth or does it really

exist...

A boat is filmed crossing the sea to meet the island and

on its approach the island lifts its tentacles to greet theboat and connect it to the island. T he island then contin-

ues drifting along the current.


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