ARCH-4980.2 | Jeremy Carvalho, Adjunct Professor

INJECTING LANDSCAPES

DANIELLE FLEISCHMANN

This ecological formation of the living and the mechanical cohesively to preserve all ecologies enhances an artificial growth that may have the appearance of a natural state of existence. The production of life is a dynamic force that can be utilized for unlimited sources of development. The key is the survival of the individual when the built environment becomes its own ecology thriving on the collaboration of its parts or reacting systems. The Mississippi River flows into the Gulf of Mexico collecting 60 percent of America’s water flow along the way, leading to a substantial amount of runoff and pollution at the mouth or the delta of the river. As a result of this and the repetitive occurrence of natural disasters in the area, one of America’s most prosperous trading and cultural ports will cease to exist in time.In an attempt to preserve this essential delta by implementing a multi-scalar bio-industrial morphology that stabilizes and allows for further evolutionary prosperity in this area. This is achieved by using a wave like module to control the fluid dynamics in all mediums of the river to optimize flow, by harvesting bacteria and pollution, which in turn can provide energy systems and enhance marine life.

Creating a denser delta with many processes that come together and form a united, hydro-industrial ecology that augments transportation and lifestyle for all habitats is vital for its existence. This hybrid structure is an interlocking weave-like form with elements that mutually constrain each other, constituting an artificial ecosystem, a system of interdependent niches. Within each system the defined parameters have preconceived equilibriums, parameters that are independent measurements of the energy landscapes, and they adapt according to rapid environmental changes. The interactions between these landscapes represent the specific behavior of the occupying organism, helping to identify the aspects of its surroundings that constitute its function. Initially branching off of the hard shoreline into the versatile marshlands and extending out into the waterscape along the surface, as well as the river bed, the man-made morphology of the delta becomes an urban extension that revives the entire system.