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Adv. V : Super Manhattan Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation ARCH 4105.007, Fall 2018 Advanced Studio V: Super Manhattan Subtexts: 1. Utopic Journalism 2.

Metamodernism & Architecture 3. Bigness, Again 4. Age of the Raster Jimenez Lai Matthew E Davis Pooja Annamaneni Benjamin Beito Elizabeth Daddazio Christine Giorgio Cecilia Gonzales-Rubio Alexander Haddad Kuan He Jake Rosenwald Marcela Rueda Ryan “Sison” Sison Juan Pablo “Stephjuan” Uribe Stephan “Stephjuan” Van Eeden

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This studio is a collection of cities inside of a building, a phalanstery. Participants of this studio will subdivide the building into individual prefectures and sub-jurisdictions, where focused theses by individual designers can be mobilized. Apart, this is a city of cities - every prefecture or jurisdiction will take on their own architectural, economic, or socio-political agendas.

However, when re-combined together, this city is one oversized building with subpockets of plural cultures. Akin to a surrealist Exquisite Corpse, each individual jurisdiction will take on their own “thesis�.

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Babel, from Citizens of No Place (Jimenez Lai, 2012)

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This studio is based on the Babel Universe within Citizens of No Place (2012). The question of “how high can we build� is answered by our relationship with air. At roughly 12 kilometers, we will be close to the stratosphere and therefore will not have enough oxygen. The Babel Tower in Citizens of No Place is an extrusion of Central Park (4 km x 800m x 12 km), with enough room to shelter at least 80 million people.

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This extrusion of Central Park reverses the figure-ground relationship of Manhattan.

Additionally, it creates a population density high enough to absorb many of the nearby states - as a Phalanstery, this project is more than just a city inside of a building - this is an architecture as a political and economic entity at the scale of a State or Country.

Conventionally, urbanism is mostly a plan problem. However, architecture at the scale of urbanism transitions the question of size and scale into a sectional problem. We will develop the individual claims of territory via their relationships with the ground, air, clouds, sun, and privacy.

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Tower Figure Ground

Subtexts Additional to the primary design project, there are four subtexts to this design studio: 1.

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Utopic Journalism Metamodernism & Architecture Bigness, Again The Age of the Raster

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The Function of “Utopia” What has Utopias ever done other than a vehicle to reveal contemporary issues within the realities the authors lived in? “Utopia”, in its etymology, does not describe an “ideal place” - but rather, utopia is a “not-place”.

As far back as Thomas More and as recent as Superstudio, the function of utopia has been a placeless thought-experiment to examine and reveal the critical concerns within the world they lived in. A Post-68 Italian experience may offer a very different project than that of a 16th Century English problem. It is as such we should consider the nuanced differences between parody, parable, caricature and satire. All of these formats of fiction hold a particular attitude about realism. Moreover, all of these formats of fiction have a close relationship to “journalism”. If the hyperboles of The Onion only highlight aspects of truths, or if Jon Stewart re-tells familiar stories in order to articulate the cultural textures of his times, the function of such fictions are there to offer a new lens to re-look at the world we live in.

Heterotopia (Of Other Spaces) In the work of Michel Foucault, the status of “norm” is a moving target always under pressure. As people engage with matters of fact, their relationship with “norm” is dependent on the subjectivity of the observer. The relationship between the status of self and the society that the self belongs to is a relationship of shifting standards that continuously re-shape the identity of a culture. In this studio, we are counting on the

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individual selves to play out their individual concerns, and construct a composite society with many identities.

Political Architecture It’s is important to estate the distinction between “politics” and “political”. The readings of the philosopher Chantal Mouffe and the architect Andres Jaque provide a key to understand the conflict of this concept in our society. Mouffe understands “politics” as the set of practices and institutions corresponding to the traditional political activity in our society trying to establish an order in a controversial present while “the political” refers to the a dimension of antagonism that can take various forms and can arise in various social relationships.

This antagonism is a dimension that can be eradicated. As Jaque argues, we will try to envision an architecture that instead of eliminating conflicts by simplification, generates a conflictive everyday life. The issues of” The political “are not mere technical issues intended to be resolved by experts. The properly political questions always involve decisions that require us to choose between conflicting alternatives.

The Politics of Normal “Normal” is relative over time and space.

Something “normal” to Los Angeles in 2018 would not be normal to Los Angeles in 1918 - nor would the “norm” be the same between Los Angeles 2018 and New York 2018. Having the message of being an “independent” “centrist”, in fact, requires

field of journalism, and by extension our relationships with facts and fiction. In this studio, such notions of facts and fictions will be examined as we continue to discuss the relationship between relativism, pluralism, and other formats of considering the retelling of accounts as we reflect upon the reality we live in.

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Utopia (Thomas More, 1516) a lot more work than having a position.

While many of us probably lean one way or another, it is interesting to observe how politicians identify or construct “normalcy” over time and space. Normal is not any of the following: boring, generic, bland, punchless… it is in fact the average temperature of the spirit of the time – of a time, a space. We will try to rethink about this idea of average user trying to generate an object that escapes from channels of functionalist simplification. The material design of this construction should be understand as the translation of a conflictive social milieu and at the same time a device that enunciates and constructs the social from multiple points of view. In our utopias, we will articulate strange “normals”.

Fictions and Facts 2016-2018 has been a strange time for the

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Metamodernism & Architecture Metamodernism is a term extended thanks to the articles of the Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin Van den Akker that acquired great fame, above all, to the association with the controversial artist Shia Lebouf.

Metamodernism has gained traction in recent years as a means of articulating developments in contemporary culture, which, it is argued (and our generation appears to intuitively recognise) has seen a move beyond the postmodern mode of the late 20th century. In the wake of the myriad crises of the past two decades—of climate change, financial meltdown, and the escalation of global conflicts—we have witnessed the emergence of a palpable collective desire for change, for something beyond the prematurely proclaimed “End of History.”

“The metamodernism discourse is thus descriptive rather than prescriptive; an inclusive means of articulating the ongoing developments associated with a structure of feeling for which the vocabulary of postmodern critique is no longer sufficient, but whose future paths have yet to be constructed.”

Instead of opting for an ironical-passivecritical position against reality, Metamodernism architecture represents that spirit of inclusion of opposites, dissidence and empowerment and the search and acceptance of contradictions revealing new ways of understanding cities complexities.

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Bigness, Again Pans and Zooms (Big Paintings)

When We Talk About Bigness…

Garden of Earthly Delights (1503–1515, Hieronymus Bosch) and Along the River During the Qingming Festival (1085–1145, Zhang Zeduan) are two enormously big paintings. Because of the format of these two paintings, two cinematic techniques can be applied to read the details of these two paintings:

Beyond a certain critical mass, a building becomes a Big Building. Such a mass can no longer be controlled by a singular architectural gesture, or even by any combination of architectural gestures. The impossibility triggers the autonomy of its parts, which is different from fragmentation: the parts remain committed to the whole.

Pan At 25.5 centimetres in height and 5.25 meters in length, the aspect ratio of Along the River During the Qingming Festival is a very long scroll painting. The aspect ratio produces a scenario where the part-to-whole relationship renders the parts difficult to read and the whole difficult to register. As a painting, it demands the human to walk alongside the painting and consume only a little bit of the painting at a time. The details within such a scroll can be well-understood via a long, horizontal pan.

The elevator-with its potential to establish mechanical rather than architectural connections-and its family of related inventions render null and void the classical repertoire of architecture. Issues of composition, scale, proportion, detail are now moot. The ‘art’ of architecture is useless in BIGNESS.

Zoom At 220 × 195 cm, 220 × 97.5 cm and 220 × 97.5 cm, Garden of Earthly Delights is a triptych, comprised of three panels. There is an abundance of details inside the three parts of this painting, the kind of details only visible when we zoom into the image. There are plenty of surprising moments hidden in plain sight, made possible by the shear size of the painting.

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In BIGNESS, the distance between core and envelope increases to the point where the façade can no longer reveal what happens inside. This points at the obvious question of the communicative qualities of architecture, and of interior architecture. If the question of a Duck and a Decorated Shed is not necessarily the exact question to be asking, what are the semiotic opportunities in an urban interior? The humanist expectation of ‘honesty’ is doomed; interior and exterior architectures become separate projects, one dealing with the instability of programmatic and iconographic needs, the other-agent of dis-information- offering the city the apparent stability of an object. Where architecture reveals, BIGNESS perplexes; BIGNESS transforms the city from a summation of certainties into an accumulation of mysteries.

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Garden of Earthly Delights (Hieronymus Bosch) What you see is no longer what you get and, in this massively intertwining collection of “interior filmstrips”, the question of form and function is going to be a complex one.

Through size alone, such buildings enter an amoral domain, beyond good and bad. Their impact is independent of their quality.

Together, all these breaks-with scale, with architectural composition, with tradition, with transparency, with ethics-imply the final, most radical break: BIGNESS is no longer part of any issue. It’s exists; at most, it coexists. Its subtext is fuck context.

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Age of the Raster The First Digital Age: A Story of Vectors (1994 - 2014)

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The Paperless Studios at Columbia University marked many of the beginning points for architects working with computeraided technology. From the then-young professors who taught the early digital studios (Greg Lynn, Jesse Reiser, et al) to the then-students who became masters digital architects and future leaders in their own right (Ulrika Karlsson, Winka Dubbeldam, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Jason Payne, Marcelo Spina, et al), this was an important chapter in the recent history of architecture.

In looking at some of the early investigations of the digital era of architecture, perhaps one important milestone is the comparison between the croissant studies of Enric Miralles and the serial cuts of the Statue of Liberty from Greg Lynn. In both cases, some notion of animated cuts were established and, in both cases, the drawings established analytical logic that is based on vectors.

Vector continued to play a major role in the early developments of digital architecture.

Throughout the early developments of the digital age of architecture, the computing powers were not advanced enough for raster to play a meaningful role yet. Renders would have taken hours - if not days - and the resolution would still be low. Vector, on the other hand, was independent of resolution. Furthermore, accompanying technology such as laser cutters and CNC machines worked with vector files. The early installations, such as the Man O’ War

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(2003) installation by Jason Payne and Heather Roberge, draped catenary linework to physically translate the serial cuts of a massing.

The question of resolutions was able to be advanced during the “hot-cool� debates instigated by Robert Somol in the mid to late 2000s. Low-resolution allowed for a act of distancing to occur - a type of distancing that allowed for abstractions to occur in the shapes of architecture.

The Million Dollar Homepage (2005) by Alex Tew was an early example of the rise of the raster project. At 1000 pixel by 1000 pixel, Tew sold a pixel for a dollar and welcomed anyone to purchase pixels from his website.

The Million Dollar Website is at once a billboard and a digital decorated shed. In our Super-Manhattan studio, we will subdivide the massive whole into individual parts - not dissimilar to this idea of the deconstructed raster collections.

Today, we have the computing power to generate incredibly large raster images.

Perhaps in the zooms or pans of the subdivisions of an oversized object, we might be able to further mull over the status of scale, size, and resolution from a raster frame of mind.

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Million Dollar Homepage (2015)

Facts A collection of Facts about Super Manhattan: 1. Power Consumption / Waste 2. Food / Agriculture 3. Water Use / Storage 4. Atmosphere 5. Infrastructure 6. Elevators 7. Wind Load 8. Structure 9. Material 10. Life 11. Miscellaneous 12. Population of NYC 13. Dead Body Decomposition 14. Bigness 15. Scale 16. General Ratios

Facts Power Consumption / Waste ***Based on Germany statistics. .. Statistics to be added.

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Germany is the total consumption of 514.60 billion kWh Germany could provide itself completely with self-produced energy. The total production of all electric energy producing facilities is 589 bn kWh, which is 114% of the countries own usage.

Germany’s per capita electricity consumption: 7,035.48 kWh (2014) USA per capita electricity consumption: 12,986.74 kWh (2014) Almost all (>99%) of power-grid-scale energy storage in the world today is pumped-hydroelectric. It’s safe and proven technology, with capacity only limited by how big of a reservoir you can find to dam, and how big of a lake near it you can drain. The use of natural terrain and water as the energy storage mechanism reduces the system cost to an affordable level. The efficiency can be quite high -- 70-85% if properly implemented.

Developed regions like the US and the EU are pretty much maxed out on hydroelectric capacity due to lack of additional sites, but the developing world still has a lot of room for pumped-hydroelectric growth.

store, you use that energy to pump water from one reservoir to another reservoir at a higher elevation. When you want to retrieve the energy, you enable the hydroelectric generators and allow the water through the generators back down to the lower reservoir.

Molten salt batteries and flywheels can store smaller amounts of grid-scale power.

Chemical storage can work as well - just use the energy you want to store to generate hydrogen and then later use the hydrogen to power a fuel cell generator.

Note that all of these systems have losses associated with storing and retrieving the energy.

Food / Agriculture ***Based on Germany statistics. .. Statistics to be added.

Agricultural land use: More than half of the total area of Germany is used for agriculture. The size of the entire area used for agriculture, which currently amounts to approx. 17 million hectares, reduced only slightly from 1999 to 2007 by 1.2 percent.

Net agricultural export/import:

Pumped storage hydroelectricity is the only real solution I’ve heard of that can operate on scale equivalent to running a full power station for multiple hours or days. Basically, when you have excess energy you want to

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Overall self-sufficiency in agricultural products lay at 90 percent in 2007/08. Without taking imported animal feed into account, the level of self-sufficiency was 80 percent in

Germany - Agricultural land area In 2015, agricultural land area for Germany was 167,310 sq. km. Agricultural land area of Germany fell gradually from 195,310 sq. km in 1966 to 167,310 sq. km in 2015.

800*4000=3.2 sq km per floor 167310/3.2=52284 floors for same land area for agricultural use.

4000 floors in building 13 building to have the same land area for agricultural use as in 80,000,000 population.

In 2017, food imports for Germany was 8.1 %. Before food imports of Germany started to increase to reach a level of 8.1 % in 2017, it went through a trough reaching a low of 6.5 % in 2007.

In 2017, food exports for Germany was 5.6 %. Though Germany food exports fluctuated substantially in recent years, it tended to increase through 1968 - 2017 period ending at 5.6 % in 2017.

Average American consumes 3,600 calories in a day // 1,314,000 per year Building total at 80,000,000 people = 2.88 x 1011 calories per day Water Use / Storage ***Based on Germany statistics. .. Statistics to be added.

How much water does Germany use per day? -Drinking and domestic use?

The “consumption” of water, i.e. use of water, has been decreasing in Germany over the past fifteen years. Over the past three years, the average consumption of drinking water was between 120 and 123 liters per person and day. Compared to other industrialized countries, that figure is rather low.

123*80,000,000=9,840,000,000 liters per day.

1L = .001 m3 Square meters per floor: 4000*800=3200000 m2 3m height 9600000 m3 Total liters per floor: 960,000,000 Total floors necessary to hold water consumption per day: 10.25 floors only.

Atmosphere

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A single tree produces 260 pounds of oxygen per year. There are approximately 26,000 trees in central park. Therefore, 6,760,000 pounds of oxygen are produced by the trees of central park per year and 18,520.5 pounds are produced per day. In metric, these figures are 3,066,284.421kg/year and 8,401kg/ day.

Winds 5 meters above the ground largely only travel from west to east.

The “Death Zone” begins at about 8,000 meters or 26,246 feet. At this elevation, without the aid of compressed oxygen, severe altitude sickness sets in. The shortage of

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oxygen in the body can result in fluid in the lungs, or in the brain, debilitating the body and eventually resulting in death.

Gravity at 12km is approximately .37% less than at sea level Pressure levels at 12km reduce your sense of taste / smell by approx. 30% Wind flows at the jet-stream (just below the tropopause) are 400km/hr (250mph)

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Temperatures at 12km are -55°C (-64°F) You will lose an average 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit for every 1000 feet of elevation you gain (or about 1.2 degrees Celsius per ever 100 meters. Some people use 6.5 degrees Celsius per 1000 meters).

At sea level, water boils at 100C. At higher altitudes the boiling point is lower, dropping by about 0.5C per 150m. So at 1500m elevation the boiling point is about 95C, and at 4500m it is 85C. Infrastructure 6,750 individual stairs to reach the top [1 step for every 7 in - 12 km = 47,2441in ~ 6,750 stairs] Elevators The fastest elevator travels at 73.8 km per hour (45.8 mph), designed by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and installed at Shanghai Tower Unit OB-3 (China).

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The non-stop elevator ride to the top will take 9.756 minutes.

Number of cores required according to the code of NYC:

With 3937 floors at 3,623,218.6sq mts per floor we will need 906.5 elevators And there has to be an elevator at least every 4000 sq mts.

The requirement also states that the ratio of number of floors to number of elevators be 2:1.

Wind Load (?)

Structure The Foundation The foundation of such a building has to reach the bedrock.

The depth of the bedrock varies from 8mts to 45mts. (http://www.geo.umass.edu/research/ Geo-sciences%20Publications/vol%20 61,%20Taterka,%201987.pdf) Material (?)

The tower will need materials that perform well in high compression.

Concrete will need a bottom heavy and top light structure or it will crumble under its own weight.

Steel ….

3,629,025m2 Column every 15 m

3.5m floor to bottom of slab

Height 4m*3937 floors =15748m Volume of glass of full facade 4(1905*15748*0.02) =2399995m3

I beam cross section area 0.5*0.5m Thickness 0.05m 2(0.5*0.05)+(0.4*0.05) =0.07m2

Mass of glass facade Density of tempered glass 2270 kg/m3 2399995*2270 =5447989 metric tonnes of glass

Column volume per floor 16130*3.5*0.07 =3951.85m3

Grand total mass of 5,447,989+1,198,710,742 =1,204,158,731 metric tonnes of structure

Steel volume of two way slab 2(1905*127*0.07) =33870.9m3

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Steel volume per floor 33870.9+3951.85 =37822.75m3 Mass of steel per floor Density of steel 8050 kg/m3 37822.75*8050 =304473.1375 metric tonnes 3937 floors Total steel mass under the assumption that it would stand the compressive force applied by earth’s gravitational pull 3937*304473.1375 =1,198,710,742 metric tonnes of steel Glass facading 0.02 m glass to withstand the air pressure 1905 m per side 4 sides

2,944,000,000 Google searches a month in building- {12 billion explicit core search queries a month in US using Google. Divide 12 billion by 325.7 million (us population) to get: 36.8 Google searches per person per month. Multiply by 80 million, would get 2,944,000,000 Google searches a month in building.}

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Slab 0.5m Span ratio 1:30 16130 columns

513 wifi routers per floor for full Internet coverage. Range of typical 2.4 GHz bandwidth wifi router reaches 46m indoors. If treat as radius, one router can service 6,647.6 sq meters. Area of central park is 3,410,000 sq meters. Therefore need approx 513 wifi routers for full coverage of a floor.

The US has an average Starbucks density of 41 per 1,000,000 people, meaning there would be 3,280 in this tower. (Germany, on average, is only about 2 per 1,000,000 peo-

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ple = 160 / building) A body falling from the top of the tower (12km) would reach a terminal velocity of 75.95m/s in approximately 7.75 seconds.

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A body falling from the top of the tower (12km) would take approximately 2 minutes and 41 seconds to reach the ground.

It would take: -17 minutes to drive -56 minutes to walk

-20 minutes to bike The north-south axis of the building if the building behaves like an NYC street.

It would take: -4 minutes to drive

-11 minutes to walk

-4 minutes to bike The east-west axis of the building if the building behaves like an NYC street.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the average American spends 93% of their life indoors. 87% of their life is indoors, then another 6% of their life in automobiles. That’s only 7% of your entire life outdoors.

Miscellaneous How many people have ever lived on Earth?

“Modern” Homo sapiens (that is, people who were roughly like we are now) first walked the Earth about 50,000 years ago. Since then, more than 108 billion members of our species have ever been born, according to estimates by Population Reference Bureau (PRB). Given the current global population of about 7.5 billion (based on our most recent estimate as of mid-2017), that means those of us currently alive represent about 7 percent of the total number of humans who have ever lived.

PRB estimates that by 2050 about 113 billion people will have ever lived on Earth.

To be sure, calculating the number of people who have ever lived is part science and part art. No demographic data exist for 99 percent of the span of human existence. Still, with some assumptions about prehistoric populations, we can get a rough idea of this historic number Population of NYC

Population Density averages:

Suburb — 283 people / 1 mi2

NYC — 27,000 people / 1 mi2

Super Manhattan — 60.7 million people / 1 mi2

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US population aging The recent decline in immigration has also accelerated population aging in the United States. Most immigrants are working-age adults, and many start families after they arrive in the U.S., creating an immigrant youth bulge.5 Less immigration therefore reduces the potential number of young people in the

A decade ago, children under age 18 made up a significant component of annual population growth and exceeded the growth of those ages 65 and older (see Figure 2). But by 2011, these patterns had reversed: The number of people under age 18 declined by 190,000 between 2010 and 2011, while the number of elderly increased by 917,000.

Growth in the number of working-age adults, including those in prime childbearing ages, is also down sharply.

Annual Change in U.S. Population, by Age Group Source: U.S. Census Bureau, population estimates.

Because of its relatively young age structure, the United States still has a great deal of population momentum compared to many other developed countries.6 But as more baby boomers enter retirement and there are fewer people of reproductive age, we could see further declines in the number of births, and the age structure of the United States could start to resemble that of Europe

Dead body decomposition. Timeline and temperature: 25~30, or 77~86°F, is the most ideal temperature for dead body to decay, when the speed is approaching to its maximum value, that is: 24-72 hours after death — the internal organs decompose.

3-5 days after death — the body starts to bloat and blood-containing foam leaks from the mouth and nose.

8-10 days after death — the body turns from green to red as the blood decomposes and the organs in the abdomen accumulate gas.

Several weeks after death — nails and teeth fall out.

1 month after death — the body starts to liquefy.

When the temperature is lower than 0, 32°F, or higher than 60, 140°F, the body decay will be slow to STOP. Consider the height of our tower, the upper part of the tower, which is higher than 6 km in altitude, will prevent the body from decay in all seasons.

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population. But even if immigrant levels had held steady during the recession, the U.S. population would still be growing older as the large cohort of baby boomers starts to reach retirement age.

Also, the body decay is highly dependent on the circulation of fresh air. In the same temperature, the speed of body decay in the explosion of air is 2 times of that in water and 8 times of that in dense soil.

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Bigness One World Trade Center is 1368 feet (to the roof) / .4169664 Kilometers. 28.78 One World Trade Centers (to the top of the roof) would reach the roof line of the supermanhattan tower. Additionally, one could stack 5,560 Shaq’s to reach the top of the supermanhattan tower.

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The supermanhattan tower is about 3.5 kilometers taller than the Atlantic Ocean is deep (8.486 km) and about 1 kilometer taller than the Pacific Ocean’s deepest point (10.99 km) The average apartment size in NYC from 2010-2016 was measured at 866 sq. ft. The sq. ft. of central park is 39,000,000 sq ft. On one floor of central park, there could be a maximum of 45,034 average sized apartments. If the average floor to floor of our tower is 10 ft., the tower would consist of 3937 floors. Within the tower, one can fit 177,301,385 average sized New York apartments. There are approximately 3.4 million apartment units in NYC (per 2015 NYC Housing New York A five-borough, ten-year plan) Scale ****It if was build within the same logics the Empire State was.

-The empire state building has 103 floors and at roof height is 1250 ft (381 m) tall. The height when including the antenna spire is 1454 ft (443.2 m).

-The height of Super Manhattan is 29 times the height of the empire state building

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-The Empire State building has 103 floors -If the height of Super M floors were proportional to the height of the Empire State’s floors (3.7m), it would have 2,987 floors.

-The volume of supper M is 38,400,000,000 m3 -The volume of the Empire State building is 11,277,600m3 -Super M is equivalent to 3,405 times the volume of the Empire State.

-Around 3,400 workers were involved in the construction of the Empire State.

-If Super M was constructed in the same way the Empire State was, it would take 11,577,000 workers to do so.

-It took just 410 days for the Empire State Building to be constructed, quicker than anticipated.

-Following the Empire State’s construction rhythm and logic it would take 1,396,050 days (3,824.79 years) to build Super M. -There are 6,514 windows in the Empire State Building.

-There would be 22,180,170 windows in Super Manhattan -From street level of the Empire State to the 103rd floor there are 1,872 steps.

-There would be 6,374,160 steps in Super M -There are 73 elevators in the building, including 6 freight elevators.

-There would be 248,565 elevators, including 20,430 freight elevators

General ratios The tower fits almost two times the amount of water of the Great Lakes Lake Ontario - 1640 km3 Lake Superior - 8724 km3 Lake Huron - 3542 km3 Lake Michigan - 7836 km3 Lake Erie - 479 km3

building the Alaskan Pipeline. Since the completion of the pipeline in 1977, there is little activity in the area.

Prospect Creek is known for having the lowest recorded temperature in the United States. In January of 1971, the record low temperature of nearly minus 80 degrees F (minus 62 degrees C) was recorded.

The wind a the jet-stream runs at 450 km/h, just as fast as the fastest train on Earth.

The fastest train on Earth runs at 431 km/h (Runs from Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport to the Longyang metro station on the outskirts of Shanghai) In the atmosphere, the temperature decreases 6.5 C every kilometer, while at the tropopause (that runs approx from 11-20 km high) stays constant for 9 km.

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Great Lakes - 22,221 km3 Tower - 3411 km2 * 12 km = 40932 km3

At 11 km high is where the seasonal effects vary the most in the hole atmosphere.

The average temperature in the highest (and therefore coldest) point of the tower -55°C (-64°F) is the same that of Prospect Creek, Alaska, United States.

Prospect Creek is a very small settlement approximately 180 miles (290 km) north of Fairbanks, Alaska.

Originally, it was home to mining expeditions and the home base for the 27,000 people

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ACONCAGUA 6.960m highest peak in the western hemisphere

EVEREST 8,848m highest peak in the wrold

SUPER MANHATTAN 12,000m

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Puerto Rico

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A Collection Of Land Areas Iran

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CHALLENGER DEEP -10.971m deepest point in the world (Pacific Ocean)

New York City

ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER 541m highest building in the United States

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BURJ KHALIFA, DUBAI 828m highest building in the world

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LEADVILLE, COLORADO 3,109m highest city in the United States

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EL ALTO, BOLIVIA 4,150m highest city in the world

KARZOK, INDIA 4,570m highest settlement in the world

DENALI 6,190m highest peak in the United States

Express Train 110 km / hour

Supermanhattan Elevator 73.8 km / hour 9.7 minutes Walk 40 km / hour

1,204,158,731 t Hover Board 19 km / hour

Bicycle 16 km / hour

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The Super Manhattan Tower is 12km tall, .8km wide, and 4km long The Mariana Trench, which is the deepest part of the pacific ocean, is 1km shorter in height but 172.5 times wider than the Super Manhattan Tower The Puerto Rico Trench, which is the deepest part of the atlantic ocean, is 3.6km shorter in height but 50 times wider than the Super Manhattan Tower

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Volume of Supermanhattan :

RINKING

LAWN WATERING 950 L PER HOUSEHOLD

ALL OTHER ACTIVITIES 625L PER HOUSEHOLD

ASHING ACHINE

69% GLACIERS

TOILET

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Structure On November 9th, Juan Pablo Uribe and Matthew E Davis met with two engineers to discuss the structure of a “tall” tower. ... They said to do what we usually do, but scale it up.

Structure “ Hi all, We had a really interesting meeting with the engineers today about how to come up with a believable structure for the tower. We proposed to the engineers the idea of having a structure that only relied on two really strong cores that could be used to hang the rest of the tower. Much like the Colon building in Madrid, Spain (see picture)

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We talked about the possibility of not having any other columns.

Cores For the scale of the building, the size of the cores (250m x250m) seems reasonable. The walls would need to be probably around 5m thick. The walls on the shorter side of the tower would have to be a little longer since the loads received by the frontal elevation would be way greater.

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Foundation The cores should stand on a mat foundation with piles that go down until they reach the bedrock. We should expect to have foundations with piles that vary in depth at a huge rate. There is not a problem with this.

Megatrusses The way the building in Madrid works without columns is having a huge mega truss at the top with elements going down on the facade attaching the different floors to it. Since these elements never touch the ground, they do not work in tension and are usually more like cables. Given the scale of our building, we should think about more than one mega truss at the top. Probably we should have around three to five of these elements throughout the length of the tower. For us, the elements of the facade would become columns rather than cables.

We should probably get together and discuss how these structural elements are going to look like and where they should be.

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Divide & Conquer Battle of the Block Like any city, laws are written by the fluid matter that is human. We will construct our own set of political debates within our bounding box by all of us each staking our claims of a theoretical position. Hopefully, within this utopia, every student will have a chance to reflect their projects based on the world we already live in.

Through a due process of deliberations and negotiations, we will set forth a battleground of words and desires. Students are expected to fight for their territorial claims, and clearly articulate the why, who, what, where, when and how they aim to construct their worlds.

In this exercise, we will work rigorously to establish the universe your worlds reside within. We will look at vital infrastructural necessities that makes up a city. We will look at the makings of urbanism from an utterly sincere disposition, whilst holding out a sense of skepticism and irony.

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Fully Automated Luxury Communism A.P.A.S.S. Pleasantvillle Storefront Project The Digester Leaving the Large Object Ever-ey Cybernetic City Unite States (of Plastic) 3LW (John’s Town, Waterworld, Windy City) The New City

Fully Automated Luxury Communism The Misery of Not Being Exploited

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics states that over 2.1 million New Yorkers earn minimum wage, working an average of 8 hours/day, 6days/week to earn basic sustenance.

Making approximately $3000 a month till the age of 60 is the goal for these New Yorkers.

With an unemployment rate of 4.2%, New York spends more than $8 billion in taxpayer money each year on job creation programs.

With burgeoning unemployment, automation appears as the most imminent threat to our work flow, with estimates suggesting that anything from 47 to 80% of current jobs are likely to be automatable in the next two decades.

This project is designed as an assault on the existing ideologies of work. Fighting the fear of automation and shifting trajectories to harness the power of technological developments for the complacency of the society and eliminate the drudgery of wage labor. There exists an obligation to recalculate how work is valued, to displace work ethic from a position of constraint to fun. A post work world is not a world of idleness; rather, it is a world in which people are no longer bound to their jobs, but free to create their own lives.

The Death of the Capitalist

Revenge of the Surplus The quintessential socio-democratic response to surplus populations in cities is to demand full employment through low skill public work programs. Creating meaningless jobs to contend the burgeoning army of workforce is commonplace thinking when it comes to laborism. But there will always exist a surplus population that will at any given point exceed the number of available jobs, it will only increase over time and new types of jobs will emerge with skillsets the existing labor force wouldn’t have.

Creating such societal work is pointless to urban growth and becomes psychologically destructive when work ethic is paired with self-worth.

Productivity gains from automation, enable workers and unions to fight for the reduction of the working week with the retention of the same wages, to be supplemented by a universal basic income (UBI) that would further increase the leverage of workers and force a recalculation of how work is valued.

The propaganda to kill capitalism is: • A rejection of all forms of domination • An adherence to consensus decision making • A commitment of pre-figurative politics • An emphasis on direct action

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Ultimately, automation is a human-driven process, and it is human beings who decide whether or not to implement it in any particular environment, weighing the choice between investing in machines versus employing (lower-cost) humans to do the work. Humans would be required to do very minimal work — perhaps as little as 10–12 hours a week on quality control and similar oversight, to ensure luxury for everyone.

The Realm of Freedom 1. Full automation 2. The reduction of the working week 3. The provision of a basic income 4. The diminishment of the work ethic I believe that it is correct to view luxury communism from a Utopian perspective, not in the sense of something that is impossible but in the sense of something that attempts to open up the sense of future possibilities as opposed to a mere repetition of present conditions. Partially this is to act as a critique of the present, partially to act as a spur towards an open future. Indeed, the use of the term ‘communism’ implies a radical alternative future vision, one that is subversive of the present and, yes, even Utopian.

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The Preservation of Architecture over Time

Proposal for the Status of Preservation Tomorrow

Since the 15th century, preservation of the past has been integrated with the study of architecture such that it was a given priority for all students. The gradual onset of modernism initiated a split between those who valued preservation of the past and those who wanted to raze and demolish to build the architectures of the future. Into the middle of the twentieth century, adaptation of old buildings to contemporary uses came into play. In the 1960’s, government involvement in preservation increased in the face of rapid urbanization (at least in the United States). Next, preservation and sustainability collapsed into each other with prioritization of keeping historic buildings to save energy.

I make a proposition for the preservation of architecture through case-by-case (nominalistic) analysis of architectural complexity. Architectural education would evolve to focus on examining the levels of sophistication in architectural forms that can be codified as well as the underlying meanings and systems of architecture.

Architectural training becomes less about innovation through design of form, concept, and system, and more about innovation through description, explanation, and analysis of history. A building survives through writings, drawings and models as well as built form and the constant recreation of new architectural media emanates a never-ending flow of new perspectives, interpretations, and discourse.

Preservation then evolved to become as much about technical documentation of designs and building techniques as about history. In the 1980’s, advancements in computer graphics and the increasing prevalence of color photography initiated a focus on preservation of architecture as ideal pictures, images, and semblances.

Technical documentation only grew thereafter with the advent of 3D Modeling, Laser Scanning, Visualization, and virtual and augmented reality. However, preservationists are sometimes suspicious about the effectiveness of such innovations and are therefore often slow to adopt them in their practices.

The status of design would change to become partially automated through technologies incorporating artificial intelligence to the point where designs are mostly predictable as combinations of past precedents creatively entered into the computational system by the “designer”, and/or the satisfaction of creating physical buildings would be replaced by an increasingly strong valuation of history due to its ever-growing informational heft.

Overall, the separation of architectural theory and architectural practice would increase and then rapidly collapse into an academic singularity with history and theory as the driving force.

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McGill Architecture Mcdonald Harrington Building

Educatorium Utrecht Netherlands

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Oxford Brookes University Architecture

Tsinghua University School of Architecture

South Africa University of Johannesburg Engineering and Built Environment

Harvard GSD Gund Hall

University Buenos Aires Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism

Bauhaus Weimar University

University of Washington Architecture

Melbourne School of Design

University of Michigan Architecture

Nanjing University Meng Min Wei Building Architecture

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture

University of Washington Architecture

University of Campinas Brazil Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urbanism

Oslo School of Architecture and Design

National Superior School of Architecture France

University of Sydney School of Architecture Design, and Planning

University of Florence Italy Architecture

Unam Faculty of Architecture

Yale School of Architecture Rudolph Hall

Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana Faculty of the Built Environment

University of Florida Architecture

Delft and Berlage Architecture Netherlands

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Bricks and Masonry Medieval Architecture

Concrete Brutalism

Oslo School of Architecture and Design

University of the Andes Faculty of Architecture

Steel and Metal Deconstructivism University of Washington

Ancient Greek and Roman Architecture

Glass Constructivism Educatorium Utrecht

Technological Systems Parametricism Sci Arc

Paper and Cardboard Googie Architecture

Mechanical Systems Parametricism M.I.T. Architecture

Cloth and Textiles Chicago School Style University of Michigan

E-Waste Romanesque Architecture

Rammed Earth Art Deco University of Texas at Austin

Plastic Waste Baroque Architecture

Wood Expressionist Architecture University of Florida

Construction Waste Gothic Architecture

Stone National Superior School of Architecture, France

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Royal Danish Academy School of Architecture

Sand and Gravel Art Nouveau University of Florence Italy

Delft and Berlage, Netherlands

Microbiology Blobitecture Melbourne School of Design

Kevlar Mid-Century Modern University of Johannesburg

Animal Matter Bauhaus

Carbon Fiber Late-Modernism Yale School of Architecture

Material Science International Style

Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana Faculty of the Built Environment

Plastics Modernism Bauhaus Weimar University

Caves and Underground Architectures

Neolithic Architecture Unam Faculty of Architecture

Plant Matter Neo-Futurism Oxford Brookes University

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Elizabeth Daddazio

Pleasantville Figures predict over two-thirds of the world population will live in cities in the coming thirty years. The US, however, has seen a recent decline in city dwelling and an increase in low-density suburban settling.

Compared to their predecessors, these suburban homes and plots have doubled in size. Improved infrastructure, unsatisfactory city conditions, and a desire to connect to “nature” push an growing population outward. The resultant urban sprawl destroys natural environments, while its inefficiencies and car emissions contribute to pollution and climate change; it serves as a symbol of America’s pervasive, rampant consumerist culture. This image of picket-fence banality defines the American Dream— and with globalization, it knows no bounds. Desert communities, with their sand-covered roads and hazy skies, are home to cookiecutter communities with symmetrical green lawns. Artificial waterfront is being fabricated via man-made islands and canals to accommodate more luxury properties.

Multipurpose super-malls are entirely selfsustaining, climate controlled microcosms.

We construct and contain nature in our city parks and office buildings.

Man’s compulsion, to colonize is certainly not a radical assertion. Humans adapt to unfamiliar environments across every continent; travel with unprecedented ease by land, sea, air; construct artificial landmasses; manipulate weather conditions; and pioneer space exploration. Having mastered survival in toxic, low-pressure environments, It is only natural, then, that humans settle Earth’s own atmosphere.

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The Super Manhattan tower gives new definition to city density, where the building now serves as a country with multiple, simultaneous urban nodes— but where do people go to get away from the city?

What is the new suburban condition? Like any suburb, the proposal seeks to occupy the periphery of the tower: the southern facade. In an extreme environment where prosthetics are required for human survival, a new vernacular architecture must emerge.

Defined by environmental and construction needs, this architecture is time and place specific. Given the altitude, each ecosystem is determined through a series of strict formal conventions imposed by scientists— there must be a double skin for pressurization purposes; an optimized cylindrical dome shape is most efficient in low pressure and should be considered the standard; primary materiality will be reflective to offset heat gains. Sensors and alarms are the new storm sirens, changing cloud heights replace seasonal shifts.

Traditionally, low density communities are defined by their unsustainable, excessive car use. The vertical tower must address issues of efficient circulation. There are new implications to travel and commuting, where asking your neighbor for sugar requires an oxygen tether and thermal gear. The boundary between properties defines expression and ownership. How do these spaces reflect new social anxieties, insecurities, and desires? The proposal seeks to explore consumerism, identity, and the development of a new vernacular through the referential lens of metamodernism.

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The Storefront Poject

Christine Giorgio

The Manhattan of 2018 is unfathomably small. Conceived on a human scale and built mostly by human hand, the architecture all too often fails to de-familiarize familiar environments, divert expectations, or rearrange perception. And although we’ve recently seen building reach record heights, successive floor plates is not the kind of big that we’re talking about.

The Super Manhattan Tower is an attempt to render new consciousness. At first, it can’t be approached through current rational thinking. Design begins in a dream [or nightmare] state. Approaching the project in real life produces a sense of dread. There is resistance because there is an implicit understanding that the designer will be completely dominated by the work, so she continues to move around it, unable to commit to the making. Finally the dreamstate-making tilts into waking life and the work begins. Fear of the potential failure of the completed object is not an issue because the work is never complete.

The Storefront Project is located the base of the tower, the first act, and features 400 floors of galleries and shops—it is the nexus of consumption and collection.

Presenting an accelerated notion of collection and exhibition, the gift shop and the museum have become indistinguishable.

Objects from the MET’s collection are recreated larger than life in this decolonized, post-kitsch future.

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These objects on view and for sale in these shops come pre-loaded with cultural cache.

Because they signify a collected work (or works), they are charged the kind meaning that can immunize the purchaser against buyer’s remorse. Here, shopping is a meaningful and collective experience.

This new archetype is also about perpetual locomotion—it’s not about the shop, but about shopping, not about the design, but designing, not about a collection, but collecting, and not about geometry, but vectors.

The language of cinema is employed to construct the project. Each floor is a frame and movement is traced through a succession of these frames, depicting various individuals traversing architectural sets and forming a montage—a faint outline of the making and unmaking of the tower, its quotidian sites and its spectacle.

A narrative set in the tower tells the story of Diane, who’s lived in the tower her whole life.

In fact, she’s never left. She doesn’t have to, and she doesn’t want to.

Diane lives on the 251st floor above her shop where she makes and sells souvenirs of the Super Manhattan Tower, but her desire to create the most authentic simulation of the tower drives her to nearly destroys the tower she loves.

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Museums, gift shops, galleries, popups, collectives, residential, tropes, trophies and temples are permissible spatial types in this zone.

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Collection My home contains many collections-drafting pencils, books, Criterion DVD, coffee mugs—but my most treasured is the collections of objects claimed from relatives who have passed on. It includes a ceramic tiger, a delicate pair of white gloves, a broach embedded with a small clock, an old camera, and a Deutsche Mark taken off a dead German soldier. At some point in these objects’ past, they were part of another collection. And when my collection dissolves, maybe they will become part of yet another.

The life of an object is a story told through acts of collection. Meaning accrues to the object with each act and the current narrator is rarely the originator of the story.

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Storytelling

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With regard to style, one could say the precision of a building detail is not unlike the character details that add color, voice and texture to prose. With regard to structure, the verticality of architecture can be understood in the literal sense at the constant progression of frames (i.e. floor plates) or conceptually as Act Structure in a screenplay.

In screen-writing, the differentiation between acts is when a character or the plot does something that cannot be reversed—a material change from which point the story can only move forward, or end. Most vertical architecture presents in the form of Three Act Structure, where the act changes occur:

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A. At the ground B. Between the plinth and the middle floors C. At the top floor or parapet In this setup, however, we encounter the problem of the middle—an endless, indistinguishable middle. Bigger buildings, longer buildings, should have more act changes. Instead, they’re all middle. The Super Manhattan Tower contains over twelve act changes. The story keeps moving and the participant is at the edge of her seat— that feeling when you don’t want the story to end.

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The Digester

Cecilia Gonzalez-Rubio

The Digester has not always been named like this, nor its actual function has always been the same. Originally, what now is composed by one south land and two north territories is the result of a collision between districts that took place a long time ago.

Back then, the population of Super Manhattan was an eight of the current population -80,000,000 and steadily increasing- and the industries of food and waste were completely independent within each other. Basically back then, there was enough territory to raise the cattle, farm the seafood and harvest the fruit and vegetables that where required by the daily intake of Super Manhattan’s population.

Similarly, there was enough space to manage the waste of the tower on a massive landfill that was situated at the south territory mentioned before.

For centuries both districts worked independently fine, nevertheless and regardless of the numerous warnings made by few upon the fate both industries where facing, they eventually collapsed for scarcity of space at similar times and stopped functioning.

On one hand, the food district collapsed because at that moment, there was not enough land to grow and prepare the food for Super Manhattan. Consequently, disputes amongst the tower’s districts arose and a third of the population starved to death.

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On the other hand, the south territory meant for the waste management had filled its entire volume with waste that piled up through centuries in a 2 km high landfill - the tallest the planet earth has ever had, they say-.

It was at this moment when the inhabitants of Super Manhattan faced their possible extinction and only then, imperative action upon them was urgently taken.

It was only after years of partial hunger and lack of hygiene that both industries - always before considered independent-, got merged into one highly efficient district, now known as The Digester.

Proud of its efficiency and considered the metabolic system of Super Manhattan, the district composed of two north territories and one south land produces the food for the population of 80,000,000 people while managing its waste daily by a process that we call “simplification”.

The process of Simplification consists on reducing and reusing the remainders that both industries produce.

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The food is digested at 12 km high due to the water collection that takes place through ice caps that are naturally formed at this height.

The waste is digested at 4 km high beacuse waste incinerators do not work at higher levels due to the lack of oxygen.

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Simplification in waste management is applied on diverse ways. Sewage along with organic waste, are now collected in mounds that host bacteria that with time enrich the soil of forest like landscapes that release enough amount of oxygen to enable the existence of fire at this height. Consequently, combustion -powered by the gas generated by the waste gas emissions -is used in two large incinerators that explode 4 times a day to burn all the inorganic waste of the tower.

Grey water is collected in a lagoon that holds the water that is later released along a 500 meter long purifying wall. The water drips through the wall as a waterfall that later on is collected on a lagoon of clean water that is pumped back to the tower for further use./

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It is a fact that there is not enough land to traditionally grow all the food needed for the present 80 million population of the tower or the 200 million population that is expected in the next 100 years. Simplification in food production has made all of this possible.

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The north territory is divided in two lands.

The NE land is meant to exclusively grow in large landscapes of soil banks: mealworms, crickets, potatoes, duckweed and pumpkins.

This production substitutes traditional food in an excessively balanced manner. Once harvested, the NE land patties of the production are made and later on sent to the NW land where hey are cooked, packed and shipped to the rest of the tower.

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The NW land is known throughout the tower as “Nostalgialand�. Here cattle is raised, seafood is farmed, and greens are harvested in the traditional way. Nevertheless after all the units reach maturity, they are are killed and dipped in boiling tanks that extract their flavor.

The highly concentrated essence extracted through the boiling process is carefully handled and stored to be applied on the patties made in the NE land.

The result is having all the traditional flavours on healthy patties that beat up the nutritional values of traditional food.

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Leaving the Large Object Myth as Means of Coping with Scale

Alexander Haddad

“From what I understand of existentialism, it says we should make our own meaning in an indifferent universe. [Terence] McKenna corrected Sartre by saying nature is not mute, as Sartre felt, but obviously it is humans who are deaf. Existentialism seems like an ends, but I’ve learned that it can be more like a phase.”

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This project looks not at synthesizing a response to scale, but finding one. Synthesization relies on a closed syntax, denying the scale and depth of its respective subject of synthesis. For example, the largest, synthetic molecule, PG5, pales in comparison (in terms of scale and complexity) to a naturally-occurring complex molecule, such as the Mosaic Tobacco Virus. This is not to say that PG5 does not succeed in its structural soundness, but this project is willing to challenge that the complexities lost in the transfer from natural to synthetic, might not be so negligible. This project is willing to challenge that not only are these natural complexities not negligible, they might be deep and potent sources to read and build a world beyond analysis and synthesis.

Engaging with a complex, external object, one whose scale is daunting and seemingly post-human, might produce narratives that transcend a starved synthesis, but which are closely tied to complexity of it’s subject architecturally, in this case, the large object.

When I talk to others in the tower, about another world we could live in, they say that I’m going down rabbit holes. But, I feel more like I’m in a recently-made, human-made hole--a small hole somewhere, and I’m tunneling out into a larger world. A world outside the Large Object. 5 Places in the tower.

1. Room with the productive capacity for doing nothing.

2. House sounding like a ghost.

3. Office for non-chemical rehabilitation.

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5. Small and hidden is the door that leads inward, and the entrance is barred by countless prejudices, mistaken assumptions, and fears. Always one wishes to hear of grand political and economic schemes, the very things that have landed every nation in a morass. Therefore it sounds grotesque when anyone speaks of hidden doors, dreams, and a world within. What has this vapid idealism got to do with gigantic economic programmes, with the so-called problems of reality? But I speak not to nations, only to the individual few, for whom it goes without saying that cultural values do not drop down like manna from heaven, but are created by the hands of individuals. If things go wrong in the world, this is because something is wrong with the individual, because something is wrong with me. Therefore, if I am sensible, I shall put myself right first. For this I need—because outside authority no longer means anything to me—a knowledge of the innermost foundations of my being, in order that I may base myself firmly on the eternal facts of the human psyche.

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EVER-EY When the Super Tower with designed capacity of 88,000,000 people reached 5 km high, over 40,000,000 people from surrounding states have moved in, meaning over 1/8 of US citizens live in Great New York, and the city’s job offering are highly dependent on this tower. The immigration shrinkage and aging population threatened the potential population supply.

Kuan He

To ensure enough job and industrial profit provided, government keeps constructing the next part, a 4 km high block, designed for all NYC citizens to move in. But many people are not willing give up current life, the city is facing financial crisis for supporting the construction.

8,000,000 people are supposed to be inside the new block, even if not physically are.

Government passed the Identity Decree ( ID ). The core is: both living and dead are counted into population, so the inhabitants always grow, and the new city indeed keeps developing.

Great New York received the most seats in Congress, adding new constitutional amendments with legality of human existence and equal right protection. But after first step, social broad operation is necessary.

The definition of Identity is introduced to replace living & dead, describing human existence.

Then popularize identity and its political legitimacy, till it is accepted and maintained by the public. The direction of media propaganda establishes a series of specific calibers,

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such as expressing living as visible identity and death as invisible identity. Vocabularies in the meaning of “terminate” or “lost” is suppressed.

People with visible/invisible identity share equal right. Legal system related to live and death is adjusted accordingly.

Copyright, used to refer intellectual achievement, is extending to refer all reasonable behavior and consciousness, including way people live, that is, the life trace of deceased is translated into Copyright. The housing and property of the deceased is a carrier of copyright, is retained legally till expiration.AS Inheritance, the legacy can only be issued when deceased once abandoned his/her copyright. But with legacy tax 3 times higher than before Foundation in the name of deceased entrepreneur is supported by government once it helps in house purchasing for other deceased. Empty neighbors appears, continuously expanding the community.

This operation is crucial to transfer the legal equality into space and city.

Hierarchy is formed with the construction going. Aging community at bottom gets empty for copyright maintenance. New inhabitants keeps moving up, live with empty neighbors.

On the very top is the government, waiting for the block completed and fulfilled.

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The transformation of communicative forms has been a present force throughout human history. From spoken word, to written text, to recorded sound, image, and video, new forms of media have reshaped the way societies organize and transfer cultural information. The rise of digital platforms in the late 20th century has rapidly amplified the effects of this transmutation of data in ways contemporary society is still trying to grasp. On one hand, digitization has created a virtual parallel to physical reality, providing a non-physical platform for media to be disseminated at a systemwide scale instantaneously. On the other, it has created a new space for cultural consensus on ideas, aesthetics, and values.

More recently, the creation of block-chain technology provides foresight into the power of algorithms to replace socially constructed “technologies” that allow society to function. In essence, these protocols replace ideology through the automatic enactment of contracts people make with each other. Unfortunately, architecture has been slow to respond to implications of this rapid change, perhaps because of its intrinsic foundations in physical reality or discursive distractions during this period of incredible transformation. Using a survey of contemporary literature, exhibitions, and cultural publications, my proposal attempts to survey some of the invisible effects of digital technology on society and reify these forces through the physical construction of space, with the hope of designing an architecture that properly responds to the time in which we live and will live. This essay will lightly touch on five emergent effects of

digitality and explore potential social and spatial responses. I will look at the ideas of digital materiality, the implications of “smart contracts”, the phenomenon of quantifiable consensus valuation, the rethinking of hyper-interiority, and a few infrastructural operations designed into digital media. I will then speculate on prospective spatial consequences to which architecture must reciprocate.

The digitalization of our interactions has spatial implications in the physical realm.

First intuition regarding the digitization of our socio-political and economic networks is to think that the virtual world is replacing the physical, consuming physical materiality into its realm of binary code. This could not be farther from the truth. Conversely, “the more digital, the less virtual and the more material a given activity becomes.” (Latour) Servers, satellites, screens, terminals, mobile access points all take up space in the physical realm, and these objects will only proliferate over time. These material emanations have effects on the way we inhabit space- the where, when, and with whom we congregate.

They also have the power to influence how we feel, outside of spatial or temporal context, whether it be through an automatic news update of a rogue nuclear power when we are in a lecture or a funny meme at a funeral. Interestingly, it also seems that these physical emanations of the digital world are tied to time and become obsolete almost as quickly as they come into being. The CCA exhibition “404 Error: The object is not online” displays a myriad of technological tools of the past and present, including old

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The Cybernetic city sits within a black box, wrapped by a screen. It is a totally interiorized urban environment. Its zoning within the tower relies on access to energy intfrastructure and ventilation ducts.

Adjacent districts include a city of automated production for material needs.

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computer terminals, scanners, and floppy disks, as well as conceptual designs for early data structures. These objects will have appeared only for an instant within the immense future digital technology promises; however, their material presence showcases the rapid evolution of the physical tools we have developed to construct our virtual worlds.

The 2008 publication of the Bitcoin White Paper by a mysterious figure(s) under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, led to a revolution in currency and the way we understand social contracts. The invention outlined a platform in which digital assets could be natively protected within a constructed protocol, thereby allowing commodification of digital media and products.

The promise of “smart contracts”, in which decentralized algorithms erase the potential of breach and the need for institutional mediation or adjudication, has created a model of digital transactions outside of the purview of a centralized power structure.

A decade later, there are now proposals of reappropriating this structure in the form of political social contracts, where direct representation could be decentralized and protected by algorithms inherent in the protocol. The now anachronistic Hobbesian political structure where a centralized sovereign power is accepted through a social contract to provide security for civil society can now be rethought, as individual interactions are protected by lines of code. In the same way the invisible forces shaping political society could be digitally restructured, digital socialization has the potential to reshape entire notion 149

of socially constructed phenomenon. The digital extension of our social self has created a world in which every previously qualitative aspect of interactions can be “counted, dated, weighed, and measured...

(The digital) has rendered fully visible what is needed to think and to imagine and to trust; to have taught all of us that those cognitive competences are now pain in hard won bits and bytes- and have become, for that reason, fully describable.” (Latour) This latent digital ability, to render visible normative patterns through data mining, to store this data permanently and to measure changes over time, creates a world in which all simulated constructions can be made visible asphysically real. In contemporary society, this consequence reifies in “targeted marketing”, “posts you may like”, or predictive Google searches, but there is still an eerie illegibility to how it exactly works.

The brand consultancy K-Hole describes this notion as “illegible order” in their #3 issue, claiming it “promises a universe in where at least some logic prevail. At its peak, Illegible Order is the best version of normal.”

(K-Hole) It seems that this potential order could be applied to ideas of aesthetics or notions of valuable space; in a world where these immaterial, consensus-based notions can be made visible, we now have the ability to construct an environment based on the aggregative regression estimation of every individual’s needs and preferences.

Unfortunately, this coalescence could also lead to extreme conformity and a monolithic trend-line vision of what we think we want, based on consensus data and society-wide variables.

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As stated, digital networks provide a virtual infrastructure for instantaneous communication of ideas, values, and norms; however, were we to understand the organization of virtual space in terms of physical space, how would these networks concretize?

Latour, in “Spheres and Networks” posits an almost paradoxical notion of networked spaces, specifically in context to the empty space of which networks are intrinsically comprised, claiming “The real choice is between two utterly different distributions of spatial conditions: one in which there is a vast outside and infinite space but where every organism is cramped and unable to deploy its life forms; the other in which there are only tiny insides, networks and spheres, but where the artificial conditions for the deployment of life forms are fully provided and paid for.” (Latour) At its core, these two methodologies approach exterior space, the outside, in different fashions. The former attempts to create a condition in which The “outside” is embraced, and the interface between the “open” internal and the vast external becomes a point of design and focus. Within this condition, the boundlessness of exteriority does not provide the ground in which we can deploy and inhabit. Conversely, the latter rejects the notion of the outside and instead creates a hyper-interiority.

This interior space structurally provides the conditions for interconnection, more accurately reflecting the contemporary network. The question this poses is: what if we, as architects, could provide these artificial conditions? We could pave the way for an already-amplified interconnectivity to flourish as it wants!

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Digital networks may reflect existing social conditions; however, unique operations intrinsic to these platforms emerge: profiling, selection, interface, and protocol. Joselit, in “What to do with Pictures” outlines the concept of profiling that has emerged with digital data accumulation. Defining profiling as “the imposition of such a finite shape onto a set of perceived statistical regularities,” Joselit examines the work of Seth Price, an artist who uses silhouette cutouts to tap into mimetic registration of specific events or vacuum-formed plastic to create “event(s) within a...Field of data.” Profiling is the foundation of consensus valuation and is now accessible through immense data streams. Digital access to this new data landscape also requires a new significance for the operation of selection. Within the contemporary art world, new media has brought a group of artists approaching selection as a conceptual generator. (Bishop) Where the deluge of information at our fingertips could overwhelm, selection has become a tool to find meaning and value within this information. This art, however, does not wrestle with notions of authorship; rather, it aims to re-contextualize history by framing it within a new environment.

As discussed, the digital world has a reciprocal material presence in the physical realm; consequently, it is necessary to examine points of access between both worlds. Our phones, computers, screens, and terminals allow us to enter virtual space, but the materiality and design of these toolobjects have implications on how we interact and perceived value within this realm.

The design of the interface is engendered with the value structure of the designer.

Its form mediates the way we interact with the content, and perhaps has more impact on how we communicate than has been

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considered. Analogously, the design of the protocol, or the infrastructural code that provides the rules for virtual space also affects the nature of our interactions. While, as noted, algorithms have the potential to replace ideology in terms of social constructed notions of contracts and norms, the algorithms, themselves, have an ideology embedded by the programmers.

Speculating on the survey of effects digitality has on society, I believe two major consequences could arise with regards to the built environment. First, consensus based norms could create spatial conformity based on contemporary society’s definition of efficiency. As ideas of value collapse to linear regression models, homogeneity could emerge in architecture and design. These new architectures could be completely different than any past construction, nevertheless, the rate of change in architectural approaches could stagnate indefinitely. However, in contrast, there seems to be the potentiality of moments of extreme heterogeneity that arise as well. With vast data archives becoming accessible, and history and contemporary context becoming a resource to draw on and re-contextualize, hybrids of past, present, and future could be recombined indefinitely as experiments in form and content. These hybrids could be failures, or they could merge with the consensus value stream over time.

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do this, we must use the tools digital culture provides- super-hybridized combinations of typological form and content, and employ spaces and materials that move between the physical and the digital. Relatedly, I experiment with variations on digital/physical materiality through an exploration of pixelbased image making. The raster image could provide new design methodologies on top of its representation capacity. In addition, to promote, rather than stagnate, our interconnectivity, we must embrace the interiority that digital networks leverage.

Instead of paying lip-service to the outside world, we must create an interiorized network with spaces for co-existence and intimacy over vast distances. Last, we must understand, and maybe even venerate, the material and digital presence of storage.

Digital archives of vast information are now our greatest resource, and we must create space that responds to its material presence.

CCA, 404 Error: The Object is not Online (2010) Bruno Latour, “Spheres and Networks” (2009) Claire Bishop, “Digital Divide” (2012) David Joselit, “What to do with Pictures” (2011) K-Hole #3 (2013)

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United States (of Plastic) Spaces as network of relationships, a complex place where a huge number of interconnections between different agents emerge and overlap. A phenomenon that occurs between entities of different origins, which coexist physically in a particular place at a particular time” Through this statement Amid Cero9 defines space as a phenomenon for interaction that surpasses its near-sided definition as an static physical object detached from human transformation. This notion of space suggests to refocus the practice of architecture on people and the existence of a “Third Nature”, a space in between, “that other part of life”, “The contra-routine: hallucinatory short-term compensation for the gray, unsatisfactory reality of everyday life”. A place that “explores renewed forms of community within the territory of the non-productive time, that of leisure, rest and vacations and puts under discussion the usual notions of privacy, segregation, relation and exploitation of the territory and the environment” In terms of the tower this space refers to the area in between the various realities existing in each world. A place accessible to all. The True Public Landscape.

This project is about public landscape.

Landscape understood both as “a portion of territory that can be viewed at one time from one space. Definition that regards the position and significance in relation to the tower (A) and in a simultaneous approach the meaning of landscape is understood as the diagnosis of the state of a particular area of activity, the scenario of public space and the counterculture to which it serves as a home (B). The project is about the transfor-

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mation of these two takes on the meaning of the word landscape. The transformation of A is given by the variation of climates along the drastic changes of altitude within the tower and also the spatial changes in relation to the facades resulting from the different positions in plan. The transformation of B is given by the effects of occupancy of a widely diverse counter culture. The encounter of these two parallel variations results in three specific scenarios that can be read as a degree of scenarios.

The primary component for public space is the geological piece of land on which it is located, nature. Piece of land that often determines its spatial configuration and the architectural strategies that are used to intervene it. What happens when this geological piece of land is a man made piece of territory?

Within the tower our landscape is no longer composed by earthly given conditions but instead by man resulting strategies. This condition corresponds to a new geological epoch that the human race has being creating for itself for the past 50 years as a result of radioactive elements from nuclear bomb testing, unburned carbon spheres emitted by power stations, plastic pollution, aluminum and concrete particles, high levels of nitrogen and phosphate in the soil and domesticated chicken fossils. The Anthropocene.

“The future is already here, only unevenly distributed”.

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United States of Plastic consists of 3 states spread verticaly withing the height of the tower, strategy that guarantees adjacency to every existing district within the tower. The reason for its being is to provide a third nature, a place of scape and meander to the totallity of the population of the tower as well as a shelter to those who do not have a home. United States of Plastics collects its inhabitants from the army of forgotten and dispossessed.

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of what today we know as the public spaces, third nature to some and sheltering home to others. All this through a changing scenario in relation to the variation in towers altitude using different typological enclosures and a mutating relation among the drawing techniques of the surface, the lines and the points.

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The first, The Forgotten Prairie. A contemporary nostalgic strategy used by humans to recreate nature and provide cities with spaces that serve as nature but that are man made and require millions of dollars of investment to be maintained. Formally resulting on an external surface reminiscing of nature clearly separated from its structural foundation which do to the scale of the tower is a world in itself. World taking over by the commonly found residents of public space, the homeless. The second, The Collision Valley. The in between state of transformation. A place where nature is still existing in human minds as a not so long ago reality but has had a formal metamorphosis. It is a demonstration of the transformation of land.

A place where the rigid separation between the structure and the surfaces starts to cross its former limits and merge and with it unveiling the formerly hidden reality of the existence of a counterculture. The third, The Cave of Discardment. A place that indicates the death of what once was the main resource provided by the universe to survive, nature. It poses the question of: What are we left with? What is natural in human environments? To which I answer, our objects.

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Typically, our resource collection and distribution hubs are located on the peripheries of our cities and suburbs. In New York city, invisible pipe lines of water infrastructure extend more than 125 miles north of the city and render what would seem as natural as a lake actually a reservoir, an extended prosthetic to the inhabitants of New York City. In terms of electricity, “nearly 60 percent of the state’s electricity is consumed in the New York City Area, where only 40 percent of it is made. Our standard interactions with these complex and extensive systems of pipes and wires are relegated to the faucet, turning on or off our electronics, and the occasional maintenance workers on the street working on sub surface sewer systems or disguised power lines. Our systems are taken for granted.

In the Super Manhattan tower, our relationship to infrastructure changes completely. It can’t be feasible to pump up resources from the earth’s surface all the way up through the 12 kilometer tower. As the tower evolves, new ways of acquiring and producing resources must be investigated.

At the same time, the super Manhattan tower provides us to opportunity to also rethink the physical relationship to these settings. In, “Water, Space and Power, in Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy notes in regards to New York, “Reconstruction of the invisible city, the upstate reservoirs, the underground pipe galleries, the valve chambers and other largely hidden or distant architectural features could no longer capture the public imagination in the way

they once had.” Stanley Greenberg, author and photographer of Invisible New York: The Hidden Infrastructure of the City also claims that “few great civic constructions of the last 50 years command respect and awe that earlier counterparts did.”

This project aims to break down the anonymity of infrastructural forms of resource and water collection. In a similar fashion to Ernd and Hilla Becher’s representation of European infrastructures as largely scaled creatures, the project aims to bring infrastructures to the forefront in such a way. Introducing infrastructure in such a way renders the system as something to live in unison with as opposed to something to take advantage of. By integrating large scale infrastructures prominently into our way of being, the project provokes discussion about the reuse of archaic forms of collection and production, ideas of creation, extraction, usage and excess, and infrastructure’s scalar qualities and ability to be a monument or new technological sublime.

3LW – Three Large Worlds Johnstown First, the lowest level of the Super Manhattan tower, now known as the “rust belt – buckle” was created during an era when the president at the current moment valued nonrenewable environmentally unfriendly systems. Due to its location 3-4 Kilometers above the city, it was somehow reasonable to pump the remaining reserves oil and gas New York City had access to up to this

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Johnstown is located at 2-4 kilometers to maintain ability to extract resources from the earth’s surface; Water World at 5-8 to collect water from cloud formations at this elevation; Windy City at 10-12 to harness the power of the jet stream for limitless energy production.

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territory. Large scale storage tanks and conversion systems initially populated the surfaces of these territories. At one point in time, it was the focal point and tallest peak of the Super Manhattan tower. It was simultaneously a symbol of power and the home the powered the city.

Hundreds of years after its creation, with a new regime in place, the new city, the XX was created above the rust belt buckle, and then eventually the city of No ID and Fully Automated Luxury Communism began to rise, requiring new forms of water distribution and electricity generation to occur. First, due to the dwindling of nonrenewable resources and two, the desire for new technologies to emerge. This rendered the rust belt buckle in a state of economic depression and an aging population dissatisfied with their new roles and lack of support from the newer economies and infrastructures.

The completion of the water world and eventually the wind turbine world allowed the rust belt buckle to take on a second life. As a physically lower town in the tower and due to its aging defunct structures, property values within this sector were lower than most, which resulted in an influx of artisanal coffee shops, yoga studios, Super Manhattan’s largest beef jerky producer, and reclaimed gas tanks becoming venues for Super Manhattan’s best djs and music artists. It helps, that the young hipster architects of Ben’s preservation school spearheaded this adaptive reuse.

Water World As the creation of the XX, No ID, and Fully Automated Luxury Communism began to rise, new modes of resource collection were required. Taking advantage of its location 5-9 kilometers within the troposphere, this sector aimed to take advantage of the 75% of vapor that was located in the troposphere and then moisture held within the clouds of this area. It was a boom, equivalent to the goldrush of 1849. Massive “cloud chambers” were created to extract water from each cloud type within the troposphere. The water collected is transported to smaller sub reservoirs that either provide water to neighborhood districts within the city or to neighboring territories. Understanding the need to generate electricity, the water collected is pumped through a series of miniature turbines that generate electricity for the city and surrounding territories. At the base of the territory is the great basin, which serves as Super Manhattans water supply in case of shortage.

The establishment of the great cloud chambers as a focal entity within this territory aims to highlight for every inhabitant of this city the process of resource collection and extraction. During rainy months, in influx of water may be too much to handle, causing the town to alert citizens to drink more water, but in times of drought. The depletion of water is readily visible. The effect of every long hot shower or extensive upkeep of some residents’ lush green rooftops is constantly questioned via the looming presence of the cloud chambers.

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The final phase of infrastructure for the Super Manhattan tower is the uppermost territory located within the range of the jet stream 9-12 kilometers above the earth’s surface. 3 Massive Wind Turbines were constructed to provide the entirety of electrical power for the Super Manhattan Tower. Along with the 3 Turbines and the electrical headquarters, a city was constructed to house the workers who oversaw the system and provided necessary maintenance for the world. The three wind turbines were Super Manhattan’s greatest technological feat in terms of scale and production of energy, rendering them immediately as infrastructural monuments.

Even the electrical grid, converting and transporting energy throughout the tower became somewhat of an electric forest for workers and citizens get wander through and experience a technological sublime.

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The New City The Mythology of the Tower The tower as a cultural and urban tabula rasa

The New World The tower that is both familiar and unfamiliar.

The basic proposal of a hypothetical tower as city is entrenched in a mythology, from Babel to Metropolitanism. In Manhattan, the tower arises from the constraints of the block, its height only determined as a speculation of imagination and limited by the possibility of its construction. It is a virgin territory of the imagination that synthesizes all aspects off New York: scaleless-ness, congestion, artificiality and serial repetition.

The tower generates new grounds. Each floor different giving another world, yet are connected through shared infrastructure. Its shape is ultimately determined by stacking rather than spreading. The tower operates like a machine that relies on the air rather than the ground. The tower replaces nature with architecture.

To construct a new form of city is to interrogate the historical idea of the new world. A world that is at once is familiar but unfamiliar -a frontier based on the extraction and generation of resources.

All the components of the city are known, kidnapped from their context and transplanted to a mythical island, reassembled into an unrecognizable - yet ultimately accurate- new whole: a utopian city, the product of compression and density. The city a catalogue of models and precedents: all the desirable elements that exist scattered through the Old World finally assembled in a single place.

However to limit a city to be built in the form of one tower -no matter how big- is to defy the most basic principles of modern urbanization as we understand it; an infinite web for human association based on mobility, infrastructure, and the individual dwelling. To contain an entire population of a country in a tower -a finite container- is to prevent its potential expansion. It is the ultimate anti-urban form and the ultimate architectural form.

The pursuit for the natural in the 18th century, and the metropolitan-industrial in the modern era, and the technological in the postmodern, is understood as a historical interrogation of the sublime that is inherent to culture. In a building that not only operates at the scale of a territory, but is a new territory itself, the sublime becomes a concept to be reexamined.

The tower necessitates a new understanding of the city, one in which we are no longer obliged to follow urbanization’s intrinsic logic of disconnection between planning and architecture, the logics of capitalism, and the assumption of the infinite limit. The tower is an opportunity to question a current condition that links urbanism with modes of capitalistic production.

The endeavor of building such a city is to start with a cultural and urban tabula rasa; a condition that radically questions the status quo of urbanization as we know it. The new city encourages a resistance towards the given social and political conditions of the world in search for a different –and betterway of living.

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The New Sublime The tower that is nature and architecture.

It is from this interrogation that the city calls for the necessity of a new sublime. A sublime that is not generated by a fear of nature but replaces nature with architecture itself. A sublime that is not defined as an emotional response, awe or fear, but the result of reason and the understanding of the limits of reason. A sublime that is framed on what Kant would define as the “presentation of an indeterminate concept of reason”.

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The New Pilgrimage The tower for the collective individual

The Founding of the City The New City as a radical shift

The citizens of the city are like pilgrims to the new world. In a conscious act to escape the current condition of urbanization, they choose to travel to and live in a form of reactive containment.

The city occured at a radical shift in History that reorientated every aspect of Super Manhattan -a much needed break in an otherwise continuous assembly of individualities. The citizens of city seeking a restart, a revised necessity of seclusion, built on top of the existing landscape of the Tower beneath them. They remain isolated even when the tower continued to grow above them.

As a response to the anxiety of production and accumulation inherent to the capitalistic urban complex, pilgrims to the new city demand an austerity beyond the means of design. The new city acts as a condenser. It closes the distance between its citizens and the processes that enable their existence.

Within this rejection of current modes of production, there is the possibility of creating new and meaningful architecture.

An architecture based on a radical individualization that privileges not the one but the many.

A city becomes a place of radical intention both in form and its citizens. It is the place to look for a different place to live, and is the place you go and come back from. It is place that addresses a continuous transformation of the self, and it is a place to think, to leave and to come back to.

The New Urbanization The tower that is a condition rather than a place.

Crisis in urbanism is worsening. An urbanism that is in disagreement with new forms of behavior and results in dismal and sterile ambiances in our surroundings. Can a new era be produced out of a condition of decadence, over-consumption and the assumption of infinite growth?

It is a dissatisfaction of present urbanism that in the context of the tower, we can radically challenge the formal plan-based notions of urbanism itself. Instead, a new form of city is imagined from its section rather than its plan.

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A call for the architectural necessity of the sublime. It is an event in history that, while necessarily integrated within the bigger structure, refuses to completely fit in.

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Schedule The Studio took place over 96 days during the Fall of 2018, from September 6th to December 11th.

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The brief included a schedule that was thoroughly followed.

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Exhibition On December 12th at 1:30pm an exhibition of the work happened. Invited guest included Andres Jaque Jaffer Kolb Thomas De Monchaux Anna Puigjaner Matt Shaw Michael Young

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Exhibition Facts The exhibition is both a temporary ephermal event and culmination of months of preparation. Yet, it can also be described as a simple collection of basic facts and figures.

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The breakdown Drawings 24 Models 12 Projector Stand and Truss 2 Blue 1:5000 Tower Model 1 Group Massing Model 3 Massing Model Re-Print 1 Resin 2 qt Sky 48 linear ft Manhattan model Tape for Wall 150 yards group 3d print 4 lbs Wallpaper 90 linear ft Metal Structure 2 sign post 1:25000 Model 3 ceiling tiles Acrylic Sheets 24 Manhattan print 9 linear ft Jimenez drawing 12 linear ft Foam core 4x48x8ft Cost 2,161.85 US Admission Invite only

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Special thanks to L.A. based: - 2126 /SET - Joanna Grant - David Jimenez - Andrew Kovacs - Sarah Lorenzen - Kevin Pazik - Bureau Spectacular - UCLA

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and our Midterm Critics: - Tei Carpenter - Cristina Goberna - Thomas De Monchaux - Bryony Roberts - Michael Young

This exhibition is dedicated to Tom Cruise