Ground Erosion Simulation

The stable ground footprint is constantly mapped, determining the boundaries of the relocation areas. White represents safe ground, while black areas are unstable.

Real-time Detection of Reusable Materials

Based on a machine learning model, reusable components such as claddings, windows, beams, and columns are detected and stored.

Deconstruction Process of Existing Infrastructure

Robotic arms disassemble existing infrastructure, estimating material lifespan and classifying elements aligned to their constructional use.

Material Dataset

Deconstruction process of existing infrastructure renews the material dataset, while each component circulates in multiple cycles of reuse.

Local Identity and Hyper-Typology

Agents Simulation in Architectural and Urban Scale

Identity is decoded through behaviour. Agents’ traces are encoded into heat maps revealing different levels of users’ occupancy in space.

Catalogue of Spatial Fragments

A dataset of behavioural patterns simulated in international floorplans is created. Based on them, the floorplans are cropped into fragments and are organised into a catalogue.

Hyper-Typology Process

Hyper-Typology is the automated process for the reconfiguration of existing architectural typologies considering spatial qualifications driven from behaviour.

Generation of new Floorplans by Different Fragments

The new typologies are the result of a colour to colour correspondence between the heatmaps of the existing typologies and the catalogue of spatial fragments. Multiple solutions can satisfy the same conditions.

Constructional Syntax/Translation

Structural Analysis

The structural analysis of the hypertypogy floorplans is realised, with the aim to acknowledge the possible tectonics cases and define the challenges of Qaannaq’s constructional syntax.

Translated Infrastructure Typology

Sequential constructional phases lead to the generation of a new type of hybrid architectural morphology, through the translation of complex architectural fragments.

Isometric Section View of a Translated Infrastructure Typology

The preservation of the original morphology together with the need for structural efficiency have been served, despite the complexity and diversity of tectonic cases.

Hyper-Migration process

Hyper-Migration refers to six interdependent processes: erosion prediction model, detection of endangered buildings, tracking of safe ground, adjacency matrix, Hyper-Typology and translation.

The Community’s Evolution Over Time

Erosion and population growth’s impact through time depicted in a speculative timeline.

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Hyper-Migration is targeted towards a regenerative system design that is able to combine multiple processes in order to balance between social, economical, cultural and environmental conflict.