Haecceities of the Frozen and the Thawed: A Post-blizzard Assemblage for Boston

The project on blizzard territorialization contrasts the frozen and the thawed, the trasformation of the organisms in relation to the weather of Boston, in freezing temperatures, a winter playground, fueled by snow, but on an equilibrium state, with warm weather, the snow melts and the site becomes a water playground, the interaction between organisms and the circumstances generated by the disaster define the character of the site.

The same procedure of decodification as a sequence was done for blizzard. First the earth organism was territorialized on the site, then the earth organism decodification with air, then, the earth and water relationship, the water and air, earth and fire, water and fire and air and fire decodification. Last we can see the decodification of all organisms on site.

For blizzard, after the organism are placed on site they start having encounters when overlaped, the first relationship its between earth and air, and the air organism gets down till it gets to the pools of earth. Then, between fire and earth, the column of the fire roof places in the center of the earth organism. When it gets to the relation between fire and air then the roof gets shorter till it gets to the air organism. Next relation it´s water- air and in this case the air organism gets sliced by the igloo.

For the last relation that it is between water and fire, the roof goes down so the igloos are closed by a heating element so people wouldnt freeze inside.

The project on this modality will intend to generate the concept of a city which feeds back from the conditions generated by temperature. The organisms will become and mutate in different conditions, starting from far from equilibrium freezing conditions, were instead of becoming resilent, the project will intend to nourish from this.

Earth organisms make a stair topography, this means that there are plain surfaces along the site, and they variate their size depending on the elevation of the terrain, when the terrain has more slopes then the organism will be smaller and more repeted. When the terrain has more plain places then the organism its going to be bigger. Also, the organism its subdivided in 4 areas on site, this is because of the existing grid on the outskits of the city varies its orientation.

For air the analysis of wind intensity generated a grid which is orientated embracing warm summer air and opposing towards the winter wind. Each rectangle of the grid takes the intensity of wind in that point and places one size of organism.

For fire, it was also analyzed a mapping of radiation and placed a grid that it goes directly with the sun direction. So the same that happened with air happens with fire, these roofs are bigger when radiation is more.

Lastly for water, starting from a water flow mapping it was determinate that water goes from the upper central part of the site to the lower perimeter so, the igloos that are made of snow during winter will be shorter in the central part and taller in the perimeter.

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