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The city of Calgary has experienced its two largest floods in 2005 and 2013. The two events respectively forced more than 40,000 and 75,000 people to evacuate from their homes, each leaving the city with $75 million and $787 million in infrastructural damages and recoveries. It is hence more critical than ever to leverage architecture and urban design to address some of these recurring challenges and reframe Calgary’s relationship with water.
Pattern Generation Grid of 4 or 9 or 16
Master Plan Pattern Generation
Final Pattern without context
Applying the values of Solarpunk as foundation, the objective of the project “Solar Neo-Bologna” is to imagine and design a unique and innovative architectural language to create a new urban logic that can respond to shifting aqueous ecologies with more agility. The project seeks to assist the city of Calgary in cultivating a more local bank of alimentary resources.
Urban Analysis
New Urban Terrain
City Programs Plan Diagram
Solar Envelopes and Urban Programs
Solar Envelopes for Built Forms (Solar Voxels)
Solar Envelope Carving Diagram
Refined Built Forms
City Circulation Network
City Circulation Network
Solarpunk Urbanism
Solarpunk Urbanism Masterplan - Close-Up Views
Local Axon 1 - River
Local Axon 1 - Built Plaza
Local Axon 1 - Forest
Local Axon 1 - Farmland
Perspective Render 1 - Plaza
Perspective Render 2 - Public Walkway
Perspective Render 3 - Aerial
*This project was completed as an independent study design studio, 2021, under the supervision of Prof. Alberto de Salvatierra from the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape.
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