Thesis Highlights

"Noosphere II"

Fiona Alicandri and William Trotter, 2024

"Noosphere II: A Battery for the Modern Metropolis by Fiona Alicandri and William Trotter"

This model argues that there are additional programmatic opportunities not being explored for these vacant spaces.

Noosphere II proposes transforming vacant office towers into 'urban batteries' that recharge the social and ecological deficiencies of the metropolitan condition through hubs of transportation, socialisation and environment.

This urban epicentre of science, art, culture and nature provokes an untested merger of community program and ecologically-oriented infrastructure.

In establishing a multi-block sustainable microgrid, a vertical park, a transit hub and physical connections to its direct context, the model seeks to reintroduce nature to the places that humankind needs it most.

Faculty Thesis Directors: Cordula Roser Gray and Todd Erlandson

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