Shape Computation Lab

Rhizome | i75/85, Atlanta, GA

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01. The power set of three strands of memory and program.

02. Arrangements of single and double x-configurations over the 75/85 highway

03. Topographic plan of the project vis-à-vis the 75/85 interstate

04. Decomposition of the project in terms of its programmatic strands.

05. Matrix of the morphology of the housing unots of the housing strand

06. Plan of level 2 featuring mall and retail spaces

07. Plan of level 3 featuting office and parking spaces

08. Plan of level 4 featuring housing and parking spaces

09. View of the facade of the building looking east

10. View of the project from the I75/85 looking south

Jean Kim and Simon Lee

ARCH 6051: Computational Design Studio

Athanassios Economou, PhD

Architecture Program

College of Architecture

Georgia Institute of Technology

Spring 2001

 

Keywords

Housing; Urban highways; Urban modules; Landhuggers; Shape grammars

Urban space (housing + working + shopping + parking + entertaining) is conceptualized as a dynamic construct engaging multiplicities of speeds and degrees of engagement of public and private interfaces. This project envisions such structures over the interface of Atlanta I-75/85 highway with the city itlsef in the fom of rhizomatic spaces that spread obliquely to it. The highway paradoxically cuts through, divides, but also structures the city. Starting from a typical zoning program the project is organized transversally, aiming to connect existing sparse programs along the highway (public transportation, student housing, parking lots, football stadium, social housing, popular restaurants). Spaces and paths function as a fluid whole floor plates distort, shift, merge and split to create hybrid open spaces that maximize the presence of the site. Its order is not generated by static forms, but by transient deformations and discontinuities, within which fragmentation and difference occur.