CITYX China Joanne Zhouhang Qiu Supervisor: Prof. Tom Kovac
CityX is exploring the potential to boost the development of human knowledge and social efficiency through urban environmental connectivity and scalability. Based on the predictions on emerging technological evolution, this project is promoting a metropolis organised by a dynamic Voronoi, which is an urban solution that significantly reduces the overall length of the path system while maintaining a low average detour factor. By creating a green, self-sufficient city that restores the environment, this system aims to tide over the infrastructure and technology as well as life and social well-being, which peruses a friendly coexistence of both city and nature. While respecting the cultural histories of the land, and reinterpreting the infusion of future technologies, this new form of habitation is challenging to move away from rigid form and functionalities to a dynamic urbanism, from designated systems of linear production zoning to a hybrid condition of the city. This project is seeking to fulfil the essentials of the city demands. New spatial organization, new industries and new technologies form a symbiotic system that allows the new city to be connected and function on a local and global 24/7, as it is no longer a 9-5 world.