MANHATTAN 5 MINUTES CITY(BY CAR)

CONQUER AD COMMAND

The way to move fast in a city, the time we spend going from one point to another, whatever the transport we use, specially in a big urban metropolis, and Manhattan as a great example, is the point we had as a base to start working. What we proposed as a final result of a 5 days workshop, taking CAR as specyphic case, had to do about the fact of introducing/developing an infrastructure able to follow the urban growth so we could CONQUER the city in a fast way.

After analysing the town in terms of existing infrastructure (railway, bus lines, subway) and his nature (as an island-element, connecting bridges, created sectors and main-attractors) we started developing a speed/moving diagram .

For that we found all kind of data that could be useful, as the number of population living inside and outside of Manhattan as well as different hypothesis related with density. We proceeded to calculate car capacity of a main road through rules so we could operate with a number of cars per hour and so then the road capacity.

It was also useful introducing hypothetical rules about migration and the distribution of this flux of people through the urban city considering the position of main-attractors carefully placed and the fastest way to get there.

The result was a flux-net diagram able to make us understand the main structure of car-moving in Manhattan, as well as his nature in relation to the grid and the existing building.

Studying the different type of speed we could attribute to a main road, which is higher when we cross big boulevards or smaller when we do the same through Downtown, we achieve an interesting result: a complex stream way able to reduce the city in function of time, connected to the existing traffic infrastructure.

We designed a prototype as a blood circulation network able to be placed in the urban scenario which in some cases appears as a generous green space, like Central Park, and in others as thick roads.

That one could be formalised as a group of “traffic tubes”, and through them the cars could achieve different speed depending on the category of the stream way –slower in contact of existing infrastructure and fastest in main entry-bridges or through open spaces-.

In the future the growth of the city could find resolution in terms of speed/moving using this kind of concept also able to grow with it.