The proposal is for a new borough in New York City, Symbioun, built entirely within the boundaries of the Upper New York Bay.
The borough is built to accomodate a growing population that is increasingly moving to urban centers.
It is designed to withstand and adapt to rising water levels and higher rates of major storm frequencies that will occur due to the effects of global warming.
The borough will be thought of as an “event city” of mixed-use development, where people can live, work and play.
The city is organized through the use of a distance-based algorithm - a voronoi grid that can potentially create dynamic spaces of rapid movement and slowed relaxation. Diag. showing tight movement zones vs. open plaza zones.
The borough has three community districts which are bounded by the main shipping lane that traverses the bay and by the Kill Van Kull canal that connects to the Newark Bay.
The shape of the district cells is determined using a two-dimensional voronoi algorithm, generating three cells that define the maximum buildable extents of the three districts.
The number and position of the input points that are used to calculate the voronoi is static in this case. There are three points, one for each of our predetermined sites - Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Bayonne, and they are manually placed so that the voronoi cells do not lie on the important transit lines of the Upper New York Bay.
This is the only part of the process that is not self-generating.
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