The City of Perpetual Motion

Julia Pawlowska (Year: 2)

The project explores the possibility of a new model of industry, an incubator for it. Its aim is to witness the dawn of an intelligence belt emerging out of the post industrial rust. By acknowledging the importance of industrial foundations and functionalist convenience in the Fordist production sheds, the project proposes a new factory concept nested inside the old shell. By assigning control to artificial intelligence on site, the project explores a new prototype for machine design as well as a new human-less industrial typology. Here no longer the system is confined to its incubator sheds, rather it expands as an infinite grid matrix of information, logistics and movement to form an “atomic industrial cloud”. This matrix houses the heart of the European factory of the future.