07 Abstract

Several pandemics have wreaked havoc on the world during the past year. Those of us in North America observed the convergence of three systemic challenges that were concerned with people’s health, green places, and racial justice. The COVID-19 epidemic brought to light the underlying socioeconomic and health imbalances that had existed for a long time. In addition, as a result of lockdowns, residents in urban areas have become increasingly interested in public open spaces. As Weismayer said in the Relationship Between Natural Urban Surroundings and Resident’s Wellbeing, “Discrimination due to the price for a square meter of land is often driven by racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities whereby socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods have worse access to green public space. Similarly, leisure life is driven by societal inequalities and ethnicity. Inequalities are undesired developments with respect to green space access and resulting health benefits, yet have become apparent in manifold ways over the centuries”(Weismayer). Also, another problem that mentioned in this essay pointed out that the lower distance from the urban core, the smaller the mean sizes of forest patches, which all demonstrate that residents do not have the equity of enjoying the green space in urban scale.

Urban renovation is important to a city’s seamless growth. The redevelopment should address the social, economic, and environmental impacts. Urban deterioration steadily defunctionalizes ground community space, the programs between buildings. To move land from one program to another requires metabolism. With the ability to specify space needs and steer future development, new landforms can be grown. To revitalize the social worth of the site, the building and its land need a new planned structure. We need landformation to fill up the gaps left by neglected urban initiatives and demands. The new landform system can change the current urban texture and provide the city the property of depth to expand further.

Industry City is a historic multimodal shipping, warehouse, and industrial facility located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The privately owned Industry City complex is on 35 acres of waterfront land in Brooklyn. Eight ancient factory buildings numbered 8 to 1 between Second Avenue, 33rd Street, Third Avenue, and 37th Street. 19 and 20 are on First Avenue, Second Avenue, 39th Street, and 41st Street. A 50-year divestment and deterioration era followed the demise of urban industry in the 1960s. Our site includes the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, Industry City, part of Gowanus Expy, and residential areas next to the highway. Thus, the site has been separated into four scales ranging from XL to S. The site’s state nicely matched our thesis topic of Urban Redevelopment and Landformation. To expand Landformation design, the four gradient scales of site must be revitalized by new additions to existing structures.

As a result of human activity, the urban heat island effect occurs in towns and cities. Heat created by people, transportation, businesses, and industry is trapped in narrow streets and concrete structures, unable to escape into the environment. This can raise the temperature in cities by 3-4°C over the surrounding countryside, resulting in a vicious cycle. Simultaneously, the world’s population is anticipated to exceed 9 billion people by 2050, with 75% of us living in cities. What does this signify for the way our urban fabric and infrastructure are designed? How should architecture and infrastructure take climate change, resource scarcity, rising energy prices, and disaster resilience into account?

Urban green spaces show up as one of the infrastructure to solve that problem. Green spaces are any vegetated areas of land or water within or adjoining an urban area, Green infrastructure refers to “the network of different types of green spaces which together enable delivery of multiple benefits as goods and services. The needs of citizens accessing natural areas in growing cities generate the appearance of urban parks. Parks not only provide rest and amusement places to citizens, but also take into consideration the environmental crisis and transportation options. Water pollution control, storm water runoff issues, and park transportation design should be a trend in the future.

There are many different types of big green spaces: parks, public plazas, vacant lots, and schoolyards. More green areas are now being incorporated into smaller architecturefriendly settings such as retail stores, office buildings, and healthcare facilities as a result of the growing demand for them. Well-balanced architecture and our mental well-being both depend on green spaces. These spaces have become public gathering places where people congregate for leisure, social activities, and recreational pursuits, among other things. The availability of urban green spaces also provides opportunities for individuals to walk outside and interact with nature and others in ways that are not Also, today’s infrastructure is not thought of as a singular concept, but rather a multidimensional one. While discussions on infrastructure often center on horizontal infrastructure (roads, bridges, and rivers), horizontal infrastructure is the norm. There is, however, another side to the coin of constructing infrastructure, which includes schools, water systems, parks, and affordable housing. Contemporary trends presaging the planet’s increasingly urban future, including the emergence of megacities, massive urban regions, and the networking of places and communities, all rely on infrastructures. The horizontally growing infrastructure such as park networks, has limited connection to the mid-rise or high-rise buildings in the big city, especially New York. Moreover, aesthetic and ecological amenities are often considered essential to infrastructure. Green public places like parks, plazas, and streets need taking into account the atmosphere change and surrounding environment. Creating a unique climate zone in the building helps people understand the natural performance and climate change crisis. It functions as a prototype to address possible future interaction between the natural environment and urban strategies by demonstrating the potential of hybrid systems that integrate nature and technology. Thus, health, well-being, and economic security have all been significantly impacted by the presence of the built environment. Given all of the lessons that are still being discovered, it is vital to invest in the physical locations where Americans live, work, study, and meet. With the investigation of threedimensional urban environments, future infrastructure design can be addressed through high-rise structures and the ability to stack densely inhabited development atop urban infrastructure. The project will push the boundaries of what it means to build a truly “three-dimensional city” - mixing programs, encouraging high density, and introducing meaningful public space strategically throughout the building. The zone designed as an infrastructure will serve as a reminder of the importance of one of our most scarce resources: fresh air. Air, temperature, and the atmosphere are critical components of the biosphere since they connect all living things in the world. As a result, air serves as both a life support system and a valuable resource.

A greater difficulty is in applying boundary, form, and symbolic restrictions to the much larger scale of green infrastructure. This might help us better understand how contemporary cities affect agency. My study will demonstrate how landform buildings connect manmade and natural structures through an enhanced state of sensory and cognitive engagement as an entangled experience in New York City’s residential buildings. Most significantly, I will include energy conservation measures and other sustainable techniques via land extraction and expansion.

The term “Landformation ‘’ is a strategy of architectural and environmental design. It is a way how nature is involved in the design of architecture. Rather than mimicking nature physically, environmental sustainability is included into the construction of modern architecture on the premise that ecosystems interact with building systems to generate a new ecology in which natural models are replicated while also being transformed. The possibilities inherent in the junction of architectural and landscape design will offer new green approaches, and testing with several new technologies will be facilitated. Landformation has the ability to blur the distinction between land and structure.