Tutors: Bernd Gundermann, Rajan Hira
With the planet shifting with climate, the serious threat of rising sea levels throughout the world catalyses new methods of inhabiting a city, Self Replicating City - SRC - is a direct response to this issue. Set in Auckland's CBD, SRC utilises a combination of 3D printing technology with the Delta Robot parallel system at a building scale: an upscaling of existing technology. Beginning as an 'office garden' parasitic scheme, the robots will eventually manufacture themselves using plant matter grown on a greenroof and interior gardens above as an extruding material populating a new green surface which is inhabitable by inhabitants as a new floating ground level. The robots have the ability to stengthen existing structures, but also to form their own independent self supporting structures independent from the existing city retreating the current ground level up and allowing the natural decomposition of the exisitng CBD to take place.
Self-Replicating city was published in the Stephenson and Turner publicaiton 'Adaptive Urbanism: Sea Level Rise, Resilience & Urban Development'