/ Colonisation Mechanism
Colonization Mechanism is a decision-making and planning-support tool for the transition of former lignite mining areas to urban agroecosystems. The strategy actively connects local communities – the socioeconomic environment, its actors and processes – with the physical environment – its developmental patterns and life cycles. Modeling them into an ecosystemic continuum generates more resilient, dynamic, and adaptive urban agroecosystems from planning to management to construction.
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#mechanisms
01.GENERAL SCHEMA
The mechanism processes information and reorganises its structure to adapt to the landscape’s transition and rehabilitation, through a 3-phase algorithmic process. In the first one, the selection phase, the algorithm selects the number and type of crops aiming at the area’s economic sustainability. Moving into the allocation phase, the algorithm maps the optimal positioning of each crop by correlating their suitability maps with available natural resources thus pointing to the ecosystem’s environmental sustainability. In the third and final schematization phase, the algorithm precisely defines each crop’s boundaries in relation to all other while at the same time exploring the full range of their possible future formations.
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what
COLONIZATION MECHANISM
PANHELLENIC COMPETITION
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how big
6.5×5.5 Km
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why
MATERIALIZE AFFORDANCES
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where
AMYNTAIO, KOZANH
WEST MACEDONIA
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process
01.GENERAL SCHEMA
02.ALLOCATION PROCESS
03.SCHEMATISATION PROCESS
04.OPEN-SPACE FRAMEWORK
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mapping visualisation | 2019
3-PHASE ALGORITHMIC PROCESS
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COLONISATION MECHANISM | OPEN SPACE FRAMEWORK
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#fields
02.PRODUCTIVE DYNAMICS
Colonization Mechanisms innovation lies in monitoring, visualizing and utilizing the environment’s productive dynamics, pointing both to the local communities (biotic) and the physical environment (abiotic). By simulating environmental, economic and social dynamics in real-time, the mechanism algorithmically generates the optimal spatial and material organizations of urban agroecosystems. It is a multi-parameter, computer-based model to be used as dynamic decision-making and planning-support tool, with the capacity to straddle the complexities of urban agroecosystems, in a short time and in a “self-conscious design process. It can be simultaneously applied across different areas and scales while at the same time actively connecting its multiple agents and their perspectives.
INITIAL GROUND
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NEW GROUND | SECTIONS
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GROUNDS' SUPERPOSITION | SECTIONS
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GROUNDS' SUPERPOSITION PROCESS
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GROUND DIFFERENTIAL FIELD
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SURFACE WATER ANALYSIS
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SURFACE WATER DIFFERENTIAL FIELD
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INCLINATION DIFFERENTIAL FIELD
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VIRTUAL MAP
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03.SELECTION / ALLOCATION / SCHEMATISATION PROCESS
Throughout its life-cycle, the dynamic cropping system processes information regarding the physical environment (edaphic and climatic data) and local communities (population and economic dynamics) and re-organises its structure to adapt to the transition and rehabilitation of the landscape. Identifying the optimal potential positions of individual crops regarding available natural resources (surface water analytics, inclination, soil management, climate), the scheme increases its environmental resilience. By integrating both local and broader economic dynamics (each crop’s minimum annual income, number of land-owners, needs in the food industry and public/private funding potentials) the algorithm sets the frame for the area’s economic self-sustainability.
WATER AFFORDANCES
mapping visualisation | 2019
WATER AFFORDANCES | CROP SUITABILITY MAP
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INCLINATION AFFORDANCES
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INCLINATION AFFORDANCES | CROP SUITABILITY MAP
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ABIOTIC AFFORDANCES | CIRCUITS' MAP
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CROP ALLOCATION ALGORITHMIC PROCESS
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POTENTIALITY MAPS | CROPS S1,S2,S3
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ACTUAL/VIRTUAL CROPS | GRADIENT SUPERPOSITION
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SOCIOECONOMIC AFFORDANCES | PHASE A
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CROP ADAPTATION MAP
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MECHANISM'S SPATIAL ELEMENTS | SYNAPSES, NODES, FIELD CONDITIONS
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CROP ADAPTATION MAP | PHASE B
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SCHEMATISATION PROCESS
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FINAL SCHEMATISATION | SET BOUNDARIES
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SCHEMATISATION | PHASE C
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OPEN SPACE FRAMEWORK | EVENT 01
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what
COLONIZATION MECHANISM
PANHELLENIC COMPETITION
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how big
6.5×5.5 Km
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why
MATERIALIZE AFFORDANCES
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where
AMYNTAIO, KOZANH
WEST MACEDONIA
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process
01.GENERAL SCHEMA
02.ALLOCATION PROCESS
03.SCHEMATISATION PROCESS
04.OPEN-SPACE FRAMEWORK
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