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TOWNSHIFT Suburb into City / Fleetwood : Marker

Presentation Panel

no.1

Perspective

from the highway

Perspective

south-east

Axonometric Drawing

tower

Elevation

lateral

Plan

site

Axonometric Drawing

device

Axonometric Drawing

fastening system

Plan

balloons' fastening system

Schema

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITOR

Team	Luis Callejas
	Edgar Mazo
	Sebastian Mejia
	Sara Hellgreen
	Lovisa Lindstrom

Distinction	Second Prize
Doc. level	75%

Description

Weightless
The structure

Certainly the least interesting thing that a vertical tower can do is just displaying a welcome sign. Vertical structures can serve diverse specialized uses like communication, energy conduction, weather forecast and are always the most interesting places for having great views over distant landscapes.

The Fleetwood marker is a dematerialized tower. It's lighter than air and its structure keep it sticked to the ground instead of supporting its own weight: is made with clusters of weather balloons filled with helium.

What is interesting about balloons is that with enough cubic meters of helium they can replace traditional static structures based on heavy steel. The tower ends up been lighter than air.

It doesn't look like a skyscraper, maybe it's more related with a zeppelin of the now common helium balloons used around the world to serve as viewing platforms. It's something that will be affected by the weather, like a vertical cloud, or simply something very strange happening in the sky welcoming the city visitors and inviting to climb up to have a better view of Mount Baker.

The installation
"We drive an astonishing 6.3 billion miles every day in the U.S. If the kinetic energy generated by moving vehicles was captured at any given moment, it could produce enough electricity to power over a quarter million homes each day."

Fraser highway will be covered with kinetic carpet system already available. It's length will be enough to power le installation and dome pilot houses in the city with complete clean energy from the pressure of the passing cars. The vertical balloon cluster of the tower will be in correspondence to the horizontal areas of the highway destined to harvest the energy.

The cars generating the electricity will lighten up the installation at night showing a contemplative vertical color light show of what is happening in the highway.

(From competitor's text)

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