PLANS

The Futurist Infrastructure is a critique on the functionality of urban planning, which drives urban regeneration and re-densification by introducing new public spaces. This new typology of vertical urban fabric combines transportation nodes, types of open spaces, built volumes and circulatory branching models to exploit the layered growth of future cities that are prone to extreme flooding. The strategy used to re-densify an existing city is to create centralized public spaces by stealing corner spaces that will re-introduce new public activities. The circulatory network has a reversed hierarchy, where pedestrians are placed before vehicles and transportation. The local roads will reflect the 'Traditional High Street' by being of a greater width with no boundaries between pedestrians and vehicles, and the extreme curvature of roads will create constricting sightlines for drivers so as to naturally control vehicle speed limits. Within the city plan, certain tiles will be selected based on the differentiation of spaces  and the complexity of social network that can reside. These tiles will then be the bases of new landmarks that can be further captured and contained by inducing structural elements to form a massive glass inclosure. The result of this treatment to each selected space will be a series of buildings that will reflect the area and the public activity of each community.