TMRW CHALLENGE 2020 - RUNNER UP WINNER
Hosted by Ronenbakerman and TMRW , the new challenge for the Hudson Yards- New York.
Imagining how our world would by the 2040 right now, wasn't an easy task, but it was a fun thing to do.
The Challenge was produced in-Cuts of the city imagined in different modes and angles in the same zone of the Hudson Yards area, simulating our new future, and trying to create a similar Complexity that's still not so far from our current present, a bit of a dark visionary view towards the future, was the main tinting soul covering the proposal concept and idea.
Its for sure that kind of skeptical-Healthy dose about the future, how it would be and how we will be interacting with, in simple words i can say its just a vision of our heads up high, keeping our feet on the ground. its an imaginary future, yet we hope its not the exact one i imagined.
CONCEPT
Imagining Architecture as a movie or a memory flashback, we see how the human urban development has reformed from horizontal expansion to vertical expansion pattern as a methodology to maximize profits and make the best use of our limited resources.
This is how I imagine New York in 20 years! Not to say it is terrible, but maybe not so bright. Life within 20 years will not change that much. Humans will keep trying to overcome the feeling of horizontal expansion as cities expand vertically into ever taller, agile, glossy interconnected towers that are responsive to the growing density.
On the other hand, humanity will keep using our old infrastructure. Because these things take time, and so we’ll still have less light and less attention to those old streets: less clean and unfinished works everywhere, a real contrast of old vs. new life forms. Different technologies but still seems familiar, like seeing electric car today.
With this observation, I tried to imitate the attempt to contrast a soft new modern structure that penetrates the existing gap. The gap between the towers is our way as humans to breathe, break the habits, and make an impact.
Finally, this vision may not be real. It may not be positive, but I find it best to speculate about it, hoping we can learn and do better.
