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Cloud ECologiEs ANAcycle Freshkills, Staten Island, 2012 ydia Kallipolitiâs design practice, ANAcycle, works with the issue of environmental performance. It seeks to convert perceived crisis into opportunity, viewing actual and virtual excrement as a potentially fertile material and locus for design. ANAcycle looks at cultural flak such as noise, pollution, and waste as inspired material with potential for architectural innovation. At first glance this might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but here waste is reconstituted not as other, but rather as an integral precipitate of human and non-human operations. Kallipoliti describes her architectural practice as an âideational and philosophical system of viewing the world of ideas, information, and matter as flow rather than as the accumulation of discrete objects.â ANAcycleâs ambition is to elevate architecture to âa psycho-spatial or mental position,â a vantage point from which one could experience a new order of reality characterized by motion and change. A speculative proposal for Freshkills Park in Staten Island, New York, formerly the worldâs largest landfill, ANAcycleâs Cloud Ecologies project is comprised of ten ground pavilions that anchor eleven balloon clouds, each of which serves to harvest highaltitude wind energy. The land system (ground pavilions) and the air system (balloon clouds) work reciprocally, not only to generate energy, but also to create islands of new micro-ecologies and forms of inhabitation. Although the City of New York has immediate plans for the restoration of Freshkills Park, the chronic accumulation of waste has been detrimental to the siteâs capacity to sustain biodiversity. Thus, each ground pavilion brings new life in two ways: first, it introduces programs â fishing, roller sports, observation, play, et al.; second, the pavilionsâ perimeter becomes an enhanced thermal zone designed to instigate particular forms of native biodiversity. Each structure is composed of thermal chimneys and piezoelectric cables that generate an ambient temperature field, providing heat for native species and sharing space with outdoor programming for human visitors. Cloud Ecologiesâ interoperable systems of weather, ecology, and human use provide a pragmatic, albeit futuristic, provocation concerning Staten Islandâs growing energy needs. At the same time, the project exists as an immersive reimagining of public space and natural habitat in a decidedly twenty-first century spectacle. Top: Rendering of water pavilion. Bottom: Section of typical ground pavilion. Courtesy ANAcycle. L îª PAJ 109 (2015), pp. 16â17. doi:10.1162/PAJJ_a_00232 © 2015 Performing Arts Journal, Inc. ANAcycle / Cloud Ecologies îª 17
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press
Published: Jan 1, 2015
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