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Suburban Sky

Part 2 Project 2006
Ahmad FN Harun
Stuart Napier
 Oxford Brookes University Oxford | UK
The subject for this project is suburbia,
examining various suburbia and their representations.The site is Hillingdon,London outskirt which the light pollution become a major concern.Creeping urban sprawl invading the suburbs, creating horrifying environmental catastrophe.
People in the suburbs demand for a dark and starry sky , to make galaxies visible to challenge the mind, induce the rational,part of the rural ingredients need to be protected. Inspired by ‘Calvino’s Invinsible Cities' so the suburban sky is created ,splitting the suburb vertically into two areas, act as a bubble park for the community to enjoy the night sky.

Ahmad FN Harun
Stuart Napier

This project assumes a city sprawl without an ozone layer and a need for shade and solar energy. Suburbia and environmental catastrophe go hand in hand and the city-country divide has gone. Over Hillingdon an inflated solar shade/collector for the borough is created that also works as a night park. Up here the sky is deep blue/black and you can see the stars. The interface between city and nature is now played out in vertical space. The project nurtures our nostalgia for the countryside by hanging dislocated fragments of it from it’s underbelly.
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2006
plan showing a series of networking system of towers supporting the suburban skyscapes (bubble park) to prevent the light pollution from leaking to the suburban sky.
the suburb is been split vertically into the dark and the bright area, by the suburban skyscapes supported by the towers of chandelier.
the scenario of suburb in the future looking up to the suburban skyscapes during the daylight, showing the environmental catastrophe because of the global warming and the urban sprawl.
scenario from the top of the suburban skyscapes (the bubble park for the community) preventing the light pollution and making the stars and the galaxies visible to bring the country side ingredients back to the city.
plan showing the relection of the stars on the surface of the suburban skyscapes.
plan looking up towards the suburban skyscapes showing the reflection of orange sodium lights from the ground,and the hanging country-side ingredients that remain for people to observe from below.
aerial view of the towers-of-chandelier supporting the suburban sky.
spaces on top of the suburban sky.
structural study
structural study showing the spaces between the tower and the ground.the tower connects the people to the suburban sky.
the suburban sky acts as a shade during the day,piercing the lights to the ground.the angle of the rays change with the movement of the sun.
the creeping of urban sprawl chasing away the rural ingredients and slowly fade away.what left for the people in suburbia to see is just hanging cows,lawnmower,hays,sheeps and other country-side leftover.
several scenarios showing a view from the suburbia looking to the city and the river in the countryside,and also a view of farmers in the countryside overlooking the suburban with the new sky.
because of the invasion of the city using the light as their weapon,so they built monstrous tower of chandelier to show their victory.
..struggling to survive from the ecological meltdown, from a catastrophe , the city is where people carve out a portion of lights, articulate their own boundary,claiming their own territory.
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