Research's IaaC - Research Studio 1 - Emergent Territories

Self_ Sufficient Ecobarrio II Term: Director Vicente Guallart, Assistant: Hemant Purohit

The main issue of the Hyperhabitat research project is to try to develop a general theory about the understanding of the structures and logics where the construction of the urbanity is based, considering urbanity as a complex and diverse ecosystem were the people is able to develop their lives in a artificial environment exchanging information between them.

The understanding of this complex reality as a system of networks that are mixed between them is the starting point for the methodology of analyse; ‘urban network structures’ are based on four elements:

Nodes > concentrate the information and specific contents

Nets > distribute the information between nodes

Environment > supports all the systems in a specific context

Protocols > organise the ingredients of the system: the information