Post-Urban Archipelago is a speculative and dystopian master plan for the Candlestick Point neighborhood of San Francisco, which is set in the future, amid sea level rise. The proposal depicts an era in which the public realm has collapsed, and private landholders rely on cut and fill in order to fortress off their properties. This high density scenario would thus no longer be urban, as interconnectedness is a crucial premise for a ‘city.’
street sections | 1"=32' | 3d prints
diagrammatic longitudinal sections | 3d prints
These 3d printed section models study barrier conditions at different scales. The street sections study, on a smaller scale, the transverse condition, while the second set of models are abstract longitudinal sections that map two variables—barrier porosity and barrier frequency on each parcel. The variety of forms is a representation of the varying measures different landowners take for their own security.
conceptual framework diagram
BARRIER-DRIVEN FUTURE | This radial timeline establishes predictions for the site’s dystopian future. The timeline is separated into different categories—circulation, land use, ecology, culture, and economics—which contain examples that demonstrate the trend of increasing barriers over time. The timeline progresses from 2018 to 2030 and 2100.
tectonic model | 3d prints
CUT + FILL | Vertical landfill and moats comprise a morphological framework for a ‘post-urban’ Candlestick Point. The landforms become habitable space following successive subtractive interventions and are in a constant state of flux. Both the construction of landforms and the architectural interventions into these landforms correlate with fluctuations in demand for tenancy.
sectional vignettes
1 - archaeology center interior concept collage / 2 - archaeology center transverse section / 3 - vehicle entry point / 4 & 5 - informal marketplace + live-work spaces / 6 - envelope + pores
site sections models | 1”=200’ | 3d prints
archaeology center sections
archaeology center section model | 1”=32’ | 3d prints
ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER | One island in the master plan is imagined as an archaeology museum which allows visitors to descend into a lost 20th century urban block that was buried underneath the landfill. Each level is reached by a series of staggered, undulating stairwells that involve both a physical descent and the suggestion of a temporal descent. Patrons are funneled through an enfilade that tunnels between houses, disrupting parti-walls in order to expose interior barrier conditions—a microcosm of the fortresses that comprise the Post-Urban Archipelago.
