My project speculates in utilizing self assembling technologies, chemical interactions and new materials to generate a system of migrating architectures. I chose two test sites for the proposal; the first is the city of Shenzhen in the coast of China, a city that in the past 20 years has almost doubled it's size via land reclamation from the sea; and the second is Great Garbage Patch, a giant patch of garbage and debri floating in the north pacific calculated to be roughly twice the size of Texas, gathered together by North Pacific Gyre.
In the first scenario, the floating architectures would be released in the bay and self assemble in the coast, certain aspects of their behaviour and location would be predetermined, but the stchastic nature of the system would permit a more natural response to the problem of land reclamation. Instead of imposing and 'breaking' the environment, this solution adapts to the surroundings and the environment with a much lower impact on the local ecologies.
In the second scenario, the floating elements would follow the same route that debri follow from the coasts of the U.S. and Japan guided by the North Pacific Gyre, though chemical processes they would release protocell technologies that create a web or a net, and as they self assemble they would trap in this net the marine debri and supended plastics. A third situation uses the oceans as a test site. Since the sea has a concentration of CO2 up to 50 times larger than the atmosphere, the floating architectures, moving by chemotaxis would find the areas with highest concentration of CO2 in the ocean and via carbon capture processes reduce the CO2 content in theat particular area. Once the floating elements gain a cetain size, a 'critical weight', assemble at the coasts and sink, generating new underwater strata that would serve as scafolding for new ecologies to develop around them.
Abstraction drawing of the Self-Assembly process: A disorganized system of particles
spontaneously self-assembles into and ordered construct.
Drawing showing photosensitive protocells.
This drawing shows protocells self-assembling into a net that traps marine debri.
Migrating architectures are deployed in the coastal chinese city of Shenzhen, where they achieve land reclamation through stochastic self assembly processes.
Above: Migrating architectures follow the currents of the North Pacific Gyre and
self-assemble around the Great Garbage Patch while creating a net to trap floating debri.
Below: The objects move by thermotaxis and chemotaxis reaching the areas of
the ocean with highest CO2 concentration.
Time based drawing showing the increase in size of the elements due to carbon capture.
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