Technoscape - The architecture of engineers

respond to contemporary culture, transportation, health policy, and urbanism with new ideas for use of streets. The studio’s vision is to humanize technology and pedestrianize the built environment. The site for this reimagination of the street is the Ringstrasse in Vienna; a 19th century urban scale experiment in land-ownership, civic institution building, culture, politics, leisure and commerce. Six different teams designed the 4.2-kilometer-long street as a reconfigurable network of intelligent robotic infrastructure, street furniture, pavilions, equipment and energy infrastructure. Using electric mobility and autonomous navigation technology, the Ringstrasse is pedestrianized for festival, art, retail and gastronomy uses. The simulation of transport, configuration, assembly, and occupation is designed using game engine software. The scope of design encompasses building design, ergonomics, local manufacture, transport and construction logistics including assembly, demounting, transportation, storage, and re-use.