GT Track
Spring 2019
Critic: Dr. John Peponis
The evolution of technology, society, and the economy calls for transformations in the role of Universities. Transformations include:
Continuing education offered to graduates and others throughout their life, personalized advice, and individually tailored curricula, and finally, educational content offered in modules that can be flexibly scheduled and combined to serve emerging needs for skills.
Set in the year 2040 and commissioned by the Office of Research Development at Georgia Tech, the following project investigates technology and architecture’s role in Redefining the fundamental approach to educational delivery for the next generation of learners.
Inspired by the Japanese Metabolism movement of the 20th century, the following project is an adaptive reuse imagination of a parking structure that reinvents the physical presence of a university for a worldwide population of learners in an existing structure designed by Herzog and de Meuron in Miami Beach.
01 Arrival at GT Track
02 GT Track App is designed to let visitors to pick, order and monitor their desired space for learning and interaction.
03 The production factory at roof level fabricates pods in real-time to be deployed at any level.
04 Scaffolding installed on the building’s north side will provide a lift for the pod’s pieces to be deployed on lower levels.
05 Automated vehicles will transfer the produced kit from the scaffolding to the designated level.
06 GT Pods transforms into a series semi-icosahedral spaces
07 The pods provide small classrooms for visitors to learn about the most up-to-date Georgia Tech research and seminars happening on the campus.
This project tries to create a language where technology, building materials, and systems are joined with artistic-subjective experience in transforming a parking structure into a branch of education and learning facility designed to be transformed, deployed, used, and recycled according to different needs.
North-South Section
