Living Bridge_1

This was a research that I carried out in my 3rd year project at the AA, its inspired by Living Root Bridges, located in the depths of north-eastern India region of Cherrapunji where bridges aren't built - they're grown(link: http://rootbridges.blogspot.co.uk/), I used Grasshopper to parameterize the local environmental dynamics, optimisation of resources and the grow rate of mangroves as a way to use biomass (mangrove plantations) as sediment regulators in the non-geologically stable Dubai world islands development, as a way to propose a new living infrastructure that could regulate the island sedimentation cycles and simultaneously regenerate and stabilise the destroy local marine ecosystem, while providing a foundations for a new LivingArchitecture.

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Comment by I_M_F [Iker Mugarra Flores] on July 2, 2012 at 7:23am: Thank you Very much!!!

Comment by Darren Chang on July 1, 2012 at 8:15pm: BTW, I think AA is really spearheading parametric design. Talking of the other very established school, GSD, where I went for my MArch I, things are mostly very traditional and the professors tend to be critical and suspicious of new approaches...