Event Title
Airspace: Infrastructure of the Unseen
Faculty Mentor
Jennifer Akerman
Department (e.g. History, Chemistry, Finance, etc.)
NA
College (e.g. College of Engineering, College of Arts & Sciences, Haslam College of Business, etc.)
Architecture
Event Website
https://arees2.myportfolio.com/work
Year
2020
Abstract
Humanity exists in a time where emerging technology has created an emotional disconnect of spaces. Fractured spaces such as these are seen as uninhabitable, yet the possibility to transform these intangible realms are here. This project has attempted to rework the typical ideals of how one exists in everyday airspace and push the boundaries of such space to establish an immersive infrastructure of the unseen.
Transportation industries are rapidly expanding how we experience everyday movement with the establishment of vertical take-off and landing aircrafts, drones, autonomous vehicles and other machines that occupy our airspace. Until now, most major modes of transportation have relied on established mapping of landscapes and commercial airspace. This paradigm shift in transportation technology raises the issue of how one designs for such liminal airspace. What does the architecture of emerging mobile airspace consist of? Presently there is a division among such spatial zones within society’s mobile networks. The spatial division among these ways of transportation are in need of reshaping in order to create elevated experiences for its inhabitants. A seamless network of architectural airspace.
These architectural atmospheres will encourage the exploration of flow visualization methods as wells as computational fluid dynamics, CFD, simulations of occupiable airspace to create an immersive infrastructure of engaging moments. Existing transportation maps will be essential in designing such space as the idea is to superimpose mobility networks of both “today” and “tomorrow”. Air travel of “tomorrow” is here and there is a responsibility as designers to not let such space become once again a wasteland of congested travel paths and dead space enclosed by the structures that multiply around us. This liminal airspace demands architecture that activates the wondering senses of humanity.
Airspace: Infrastructure of the Unseen
Humanity exists in a time where emerging technology has created an emotional disconnect of spaces. Fractured spaces such as these are seen as uninhabitable, yet the possibility to transform these intangible realms are here. This project has attempted to rework the typical ideals of how one exists in everyday airspace and push the boundaries of such space to establish an immersive infrastructure of the unseen.
Transportation industries are rapidly expanding how we experience everyday movement with the establishment of vertical take-off and landing aircrafts, drones, autonomous vehicles and other machines that occupy our airspace. Until now, most major modes of transportation have relied on established mapping of landscapes and commercial airspace. This paradigm shift in transportation technology raises the issue of how one designs for such liminal airspace. What does the architecture of emerging mobile airspace consist of? Presently there is a division among such spatial zones within society’s mobile networks. The spatial division among these ways of transportation are in need of reshaping in order to create elevated experiences for its inhabitants. A seamless network of architectural airspace.
These architectural atmospheres will encourage the exploration of flow visualization methods as wells as computational fluid dynamics, CFD, simulations of occupiable airspace to create an immersive infrastructure of engaging moments. Existing transportation maps will be essential in designing such space as the idea is to superimpose mobility networks of both “today” and “tomorrow”. Air travel of “tomorrow” is here and there is a responsibility as designers to not let such space become once again a wasteland of congested travel paths and dead space enclosed by the structures that multiply around us. This liminal airspace demands architecture that activates the wondering senses of humanity.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_eureca/2020/winners/1