Printing a Green Park for Now;
Experimenting a Concept for Future.
Designed by: Kelvin IP
My project stemmed from a doomsday imagination of Istanbul.
Imagine we have lands covered by the water because of the rising sea level…
Imagine we have nowhere to go…
Imagine we might have to live in somewhere without lands forever…
People suggest moving away from the Earth, and living in another planet like Mars. Some say living on a giant floating platform and let ourselves floating on the water endlessly…I raised a question, “If we do love the Earth, if we like the way we lived, why do we have to leave this lovely planet? Why don’t we rebuild the Earth again? Why can’t we stand up again on our continent?”
I designed a machine consisting of different functions works like a vertical city, the bridge-like structure collects the wastage from the city, purify the waste and then drop them into the water. The idea is basically to reclaim the land, filling up the earth, printing out a new city. The machine is similar to a ‘3D Printer’ we commonly used for architectural model, but this is for printing out a city, not printing out an architectural model. This machine could be multiplied and spread like spider web around the whole Istanbul, or even the entire world.
Some experiments testing on how to drop those purified wastage.
In order to attach this visionary scheme more into the reality, it was finally proposed to be built in the shipyard at Istanbul as an experimental project. It works like a test bed. Istanbul people will be invited to live in the system. The ‘filling system’ will be tested. At the end of the experiment, a central park will be ‘printed’ out. Contemporarily, it gives a big green space that the densely populated Istanbul is now lacking of. In the long run, this is an experiment for Istanbul city to get prepared for the doomsday.
Kelvin Ip
