Perforating the City

Description

Urban transport is shifting from fossil-based modes to more sustainable forms of mobility. In the climate-resilient city, land is redistributed, and bicycle networks are redesigned. In the context of adapting to the climate crisis, it is more urgent to take a planetary view of the mobility transition and avoid sealing off more land. ‘Perforating the City’ therefore calls for water-sensitive design of urban cycle paths. In response to increasing weather extremes, the approach designs permeable traffic surfaces that infiltrate, distribute, store and evaporate rainwater. The surface material consists of a flat surface structure with parametric perforations and a porous volume structure with adaptive water distribution. Autonomous 3D printing robots will be used to continuously print the adaptive cycle path from mineral materials on site