1. Somatic Collaborative

  2. Projects

  1. SC14

  2. Arizona Report

    Frameworks for a well-tempered urbanism in the American Southwest

  3. Arizona Report

    Conceptos urbanísticos para el suroeste norteamericano

  4. Phoenix, AZ

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  2. Phoenix and Tucson, commonly known as America’s “desert cities” have established a bipolar relationship with its immediate environment of the Sonoran Desert. Sitting a top of some of the largest non-replenishable aquifers in North America, the Phoenix-Tucson mega region has evolved from an accretion of diverse infrastructures tasked primarily with the laborious manipulation of water. These infrastructural projects have throughout the twentieth century generated an inconspicuous yet extensive public works system that transformed the terrain from arid ground into an arable Eden, and later into an overextended urban oasis.

    This funded research project investigates the role of the territorial grid and water infrastructure as the two primary organizational systems for urbanization in the region. Furthermore, the project explores ways in which a re-conceptualization of these two constructs can proffer more integral and well-tempered models of urbanization for the region.

    The work will be documented in a publication to be released in the summer of 2011.

  3. Phoenix y Tusón, conocidas como las “ciudades desierto” de Norteamérica se han urbanizado desconectadas de su contexto inmediato del desierto Sonoro. Asentadas sobre uno de los sistemas acuíferos mas extensos del continente americano, esta región se ha urbanizado en relación a una serie de grandes proyectos infraestructurales que facilitaron extensas cantidades de agua, permitiendo la transformación de suelo seco a edén agrícola y luego a un gran oasis urbano.

    Este proyecto investiga el role de la grilla territorial y las infraestructuras de agua como dos elementos claves en la organización urbana de este territorio. Adicionalmente, el proyecto explora la posibilidad de repensar estos dos elementos como herramientas que puedan proveer modelos urbanos mas integrales y eficientes para la región.

    El material de la investigación esta documentado en una publicación que será impresa en el verano del 2011.

    • PROJECT TYPE
    • Funded Research
    • DESIGN TEAM
      Felipe Correa
      Dan Handel

    Carl D’Apolito-Dworkin

    Maria Arquero
    Ian Klein
    Noel Murphy
    Ashley Scott Kelly
    Michael Sypkens

  1. Size_3_somatic_postcard1
    cover
  2. Size_3_somatic_arizona_grid
    grid projection and urbanized matt
  3. Size_3_somatic_arizona_saltriver
    Salt River hydrological infrastructure
  4. Size_3_somatic_arizona_project1
    urban model 1: new city extensions