Research Cluster 6 The Bartlett School of Architecture 2013 6.1 6.1 – 6.4 Shuyi Zhang Invisible Architectures 6.1 Temporal Territories of Pearl Street. Reviving the history of Pearl Street in Manhattan through an invisible particulate landscape of smells dictated by air flows. This drawing shows the landscapes and spaces generated by the constantly responding system of emitters and sensors that adapt to the prevailing wind condition to maintain a ‘cloud’ of territories along the streetscape. A series of architectural events of recollection and reorganisation are produced through the interaction of landscapes of smell and the physical infrastructure along the street, that intersect and respond to the shifting air flows within the city. 6.2 Smellscape One. A physical representation of a CFD structure of smell created by a series of emitters and the prevailing wind. Generating architectural forms and spaces 122
through the manipulation of air. 6.3 Smellscape Model. A coloured 3D-printed model of one of the invisible architectural territories showing gradiations of smell strength and encoded with different types and forms. 6.4 Manhattan as Dynamic Landscape of Smells. Using a fluid dynamic system of particles to make a smell map of Manhattan that shows the changing landscapes of air and smell across the city over the course of the year. By defining these parameters for a non-visual landscape of air flow, a series of emitters and elements set up to respond to this would allow for the maintenance of ‘still’ landscapes through a series of reponses and counterbalances in relation to this ever-shifting meteorological landscape.