Canopy City
GAUD Pratt | Master of Science, Architecture, and Urban Design
Director: Architects Kutan Ayata & Michael Young
Most cities have a strong relationship to the ground, in terms of structure (supporting things), infrastructure (connection to the systems of the city) and Real Estate (monetary value of the land for development). The project challenges the necessity of the ground as the foundation of the city. The Canopy City supports the systems of the city so structure, infrastructure and Real Estate are based on needle points that connect to a canopies network, and allow to develop the city in different ways over time. Canopy-> Down as an opposite to Ground -> Up.
The Canopy city allows to reclaim areas of the city with damaged ground conditions and reclaim them with a new kind of urbanity. The intervention is done in a needle system, this creates infrastructure on a point instead of infrastructure on streets and blocks
Project: Alternative Strategic plan for urban planing
Program: Culture, Commercial, & Infrastructure
Location: Newtown Creek, Brooklyn, New York.
First Stage Snapshot
Solar Panels –
The primary economic engine
Internal “Mushroom” – The basic Canopy
Connected and tie Bubble Spaces
External Nest to supports the Bubbles
Connection to the city’s infrastructure systems
Ground Design
Section
Canopy Stage One
Canopy Stage Two
Canopy Stage Three
