Biodiversity - The ecological productive infrastructures of the Port Authority Bus Terminal - New York City

Biodiversity - The ecological productive infrastructures of the Port Authority Bus Terminal - New York City

Benoit, N.

Nottrot, R. (mentor)
Van de Voort, J. (mentor)
De Jong, T. (mentor)
Leitner, P. (mentor)

Architecture

Architecture

Explorelab 11

2011-10-31

Short description : The research understands the biodiversity as a complex system and translates it into principles and tools to achieve a special interface between natural ecosystems (planet) and human consciousness (people) not only based on economic value. With these tools, habitats' opportunities for other species than human are created, used and increased within the urban ecosystem of NYC in order to resolve current issues, to prevent others and to make the city less vulnerable as ecosystem. This risk cover for life principle is the very base of biodiversity. The design of the Port authority Bus terminal of New York City as an eco-infrastructure experiences one strategy to link the people (in that case, the bus station with the commuting experience) and the natural environment through a service needed by the urban ecosystem yet answered with a biosphere tool : a waste water management machine. Through this project, transportation layers are overlapping activities both recreational and professional to offer a more livable and less stress environment for commuting, living and working. In that concern, the materialization of the ensemble is bridging non-biodegradable matter with both biodegradable and organic matter in order to achieve different time-related spatial perspectives.

biodiversity
New York City
infrastructure
living machine

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2012-08-01

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2011 Benoit, N.