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Inter-Pelagos
Project details
Programme
Research Cluster
RC14
Inter-Pelagos investigates mental health deprivation in the metropolis. The psychological impact of public space is a concern dating back to Guy Debord’s psycho-geographical study of Paris that is still relevant to understand how the post-pandemic city will function. Inter-Pelagos aims at dynamically re-organising public spaces in Canary Wharf by studying the politics of “atmosphere” and restructuring day and night events to boost of pedestrian activities and circulation. The research shows how computation can be deployed to not only map the morphology of public space and perception, but also to make hypothesis about the relation between the two.
The variation of the flow of pedestrians on site is a particularly important factor to understand how Canary Wharf is used during the day and at night. The analogy of the theatre provides a key image to understand and speculate through data: what is the theatre-ability of public spaces? What areas, at what time, and how can public spaces in Canary Wharf provide a platform to organise and stimulate activities for different demographics? The final design provides a series of public spaces distributed across the site providing, dynamic, atmospheric conditions for new programs and behaviours to arise.
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Project Overview
Project Overview
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The Data-scape
Data Synthesis for the Large Scale
Data Synthesis for the Large Scale
The mechanism of mental health deprivation is tested and clarified through machine learning, including basic statistical correlations, Principal component analysis (PCA), and K-means Clustering Analysis.
Data Synthesis for the Small Scale
The same set of the machine-learning process is conducted for small scale area, and the K-Means offers clear anatomy of this area.
The Visual Accessibility
The Visual Accessibility
The visibility graph analysis is conducted to check the visual accessibility and how the connection between the most accessible area to the less accessible area can be achieved.
The Lightening Condition
The Lightening Condition
The analysis of the night remote sensing image is included, to support the special requirement of lightening in the night movement.
The Visual Attraction
The Visual Attraction
The user-produced and geolocated pictures are analysed, both in terms of colours and elements, to defined the elements with visual attractions in the area.
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The Movement
Differentiation between the Day and Night
Differentiation between the Day and Night
The google popular data are included to show the real-time movement, which reassures that there is a decrease of liveness from daytime to nighttime and that the current centre has the potential to be repopulated at night.
Agent Simulation - Night Attractions
Through the agent simulation, the night flow from the targeted residential community to the centre area are simulated, using the current data of “point of interests” as the targets of the movement.
Agent Simulation - Night Attractions
Agent Simulation - Night Attractions
Network Map in the Agent Simulation
This Network Map shows potential connection among the agents in the process of the movement, while also indicating the potential event site where there exists well-connected network.
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Synthesis of Data-scape
Synthesis of Data-scape
Event Programing I
To realise the proposal of rebuild, the movement and connection in the surrounding area was a key intermediator in the even bigger scenario of night free movement.
Event Programming II
These new flows are supported by the distribution of theatrical elements with visual attraction, as an atmospheric transformation of the area, finally constituted as a distributed “urban theatre”.
Lightening Master Plan
Based on the event programming and the distribution of the theatric elements, the transformation of the atmosphere is achieved, making this area of design a distributed “urban theatre”.
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Detailed Design
Detailed Design
Visual Directed Flows
Visual Directed Flows
This process of using visual, directed movement as a clue of design speculation is followed across different scales, from the master plan to the detailed design.
The Arrangement of the Theatric Elements
Based on the flow system, different theatric elements (stages, lights, stands) are distributed, to transform the atmosphere. The area along the canal, which used to be “dark” and “inert”, is now activated.
The Sections
The Atmosphere in the Final Design
View over the Inland Canal
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