PHASE 1_Polis

Sultan Almutairi, Hazel Simay Ozrenk, Pavlos Symianakis

Most cities, have sprawled to an immense extent, leaving the outskirts segregated and isolated from the urban attractions and opportunities that are usually gathered in its central areas. We want to achieve a densely populated urban fabric and an equitable spread of amenities and public nodes that can ensure ease of mobility for the inhabitants. A dynamic system that informs the inhabitants of the city of the best possible location to occupy, but also adapts to their own decisions and adjusts itself accordingly. We use the materiality of timber and its construction methods to achieve efficient, ecological, and adaptable. To achieve our objective, we are pursuing the task on 3 levels: using semi bottom-up settlement techniques, based on a spread of attractor points to different neighbourhoods, we attempt to connect them but, at the same time, give each of them a diverse and interesting characteristic; a rigorous dynamic system that merges inhabitant intelligence, with the expert intelligence provided by an informed and constantly updating AI to make joined democratic decisions; and through the use of lightweight timber structures that allows for digitally informed and efficient matter, adaptability and mass customisable structures.