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The City Synthesiser

Part 1 Project 2021
Xiaoya He
 Architectural Association London | UK
The project puts forward an urban vision for Moscow, where transport also affects speed, direction, and the image of the city’s growth and expansion. The transit infrastructure of Moscow needs to be conceived beyond its ring-roads and metro networks, whereas the transplants of cultural sites trapped in pleasure parks deny Russian visionary histories.

A system of infrastructural “machines” would alter the way the historical center and its ever-expanding edge are connected. It shows that the way we accelerate and equip transit would profoundly affect the way citizens understand the location, cultural experiences, and programmes. For high-speed transit not only can propel users across places and territories but also compress and distort time and consciousness. Inspired by the technologies of theme parks as well as transport, the project stages a set of both spatial and functional dis-placements on three indicative sites. With the deliberate reinvention of transit pods, elevators, and bridges, I reconnect the everyday commutes to the insanity and spectacle of theme park “ride.” My project alerts us to the impact of the future impact of technology, but also the multi-sensory experience on the city – while positing that the city is a flow and process, breaking down the boundaries between institutions, typologies and locations.
Xiaoya He
Tutor(s)
Maria Fedorchenko
2021
The project introduces new spaces of transition that act as a disturbance to functionalist logistics. Each machine is tuning the flow around it, creating disharmony. But together, they can script the impromptu music of Moscow. These transit machines are n
Through the proposed machinic intervention, one is able to connect the insanity of the theme park to the everyday commune of Moscow. Writing its fiction in the form of infrastructural rides.
The second element is the Unisphere which is the confluence of education immerser through space, a spherical transfer ride. The Unisphere provides a single platform that preserves and extends the spirit of the main institution building. The convergence of
The layering condition of the Manege Shopping Center is particularly suitable to test the idea of a level-changing infrastructure that converts the elevators into an inhabitable, slowly moving platform. Of which the circulation is unpredictable, allowing
The choreography of the Zebra is based on the principle of the triple pendulum. It is instrumental in creating space for pedestrians among the busy transit flows. Tripling the rotation generates much more complex and flexible special patterns, and that th
Given the unprecedented technological breakthrough, the awareness of time, speed and location have been called into question. This is also an on-going project that critically access both the local and trans-nation effect of high-speed technologies that ex
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