Edaphication - urban research project for the Krupp-Guertel in Essen, Germany
lectors: Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Alisa Andrasek
In ecology, edaphic refers to plant communities that are distinguished by soil conditions rather than by the climate. In the context of urban strategies, edaphic tactics evolve a parametric design (global) from environmental conditions (local). Edaphication here, is an urban research project to develop parametric design strategies in the coherence of the Ruhrgebiet, a postindustrial region in Germany.
The initial point for the project is the logo for the cultural capital 2010 event in Essen, the recognition of the Ruhrgebiet as a pixilated landscape. The presumption, that there are natural reasons for the emergence of the flatten pixel pattern in an urban scale, is the starting point for an investigation on the basic principles of the emergence of city patterns, and on the environmental roots of the region. By the use of a parametrical relational network between the particular city-layers emerge urban figurations on the linkage points, in the structural coherence of a postindustrial region. Identity becomes a result of subjective perception of multiple readings.
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