Growing Collectives
Jennifer Gautama
The Power Station A would act as a centre point of heritage of the power district in the whole masterplan. While the overall masterplan attempts to embrace the use of smart and renewable technologies, Power Station A aims to invite visitors to understand the history of the coming of the power district – which includes both the significance of the original power district as well as the original Labrador Park that once covered the area. Nature and the exploration of new material technology alongside big data would be used as a the main medium to shape spaces that aims to “keepsake” various memories and heritage of the Power Station, in an attempt to celebrate our heritage and memories while embracing the new smart and green age.
The spaces and structures conceived over the next few years would be one that is constantly changing. It features a self 3D printing mechanism that would follow human data and create spaces/ structures based on that information. Essentially, it would print more on the ground plane (bottom up) when there is more people. This structures would eventually be overgrown with plants that are introduced into the mesh structure itself. As these plants would need sunlight, a second 3D printing mechanim would always print from top down (the roof) on areas where structures are not growing on the ground plane to redirect sunlight to areas that requires it.
This self growing structure by itself is biodegradable and would decompose after a few years when sensors track that space is no longer crowded to print other structures elsewhere. The plants in the mesh would be processed to form new materials and energy to power up the power station itself and feed the 3D printing mechanism.
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