UNCERTAINTIES: An Approach to a New Urban Framework

Abstract

This thesis investigates business scenario planning models as an investigation tool for deriving architectural uncertainties and future possibilities in the context of city growth, and then strategically assimilating these uncertainties into architecture propositions. The missing link between architectural propositions and ecological systems is the experimentation and analysis to come up with an alternative sustainable proposition for Auckland. Through the parallel generation of programs and functions, the design responds to the current condition and helps to minimize environmental impacts while at the same time creating strong moments of architectural experiences for Auckland. My design aims to address how designs can ease the adaptability of ever changing conditions of our city. Architecture and Urban strategies form the interface of people and space; it has implications on many levels: social, economic, and environmental. Through good design, I aim to insert architecture to our land as an integral component of our ecological system rather than an addition of. By utilising the techniques of collage, elements will be deployed with an aim to ramp up intensity and complexity. Ecological urbanism is not about large-scale eco-cities or infrastructures. It is about working with nature and network. The process helps to show that everything begins as a response to the collective needs and aspirations of a certain population by re-doing, readapting, renovating, and transforming existing assets that we have already built. “Where sustainability aims to put the world back into balance, resilience looks for ways to manage in an imbalanced world” Andrew Zolli. Thesis Question: How will architecture benefit from inheriting scenario planning and close loop ecology system as a design generative methodology in the context of city growth?