Projects
2016
AIR AS INFRASTRUCTURE
Infrastructural, Botanical, and Ecological Information System
- Amazonas, Brazil • Cornell Architecture • Supervisor: Tao DuFour + Paulo Tavares
Air as Infrastructure is a program integrating various infrastructural, botanical, and ecological information systems which aim to provide autonomous communication channels for protected territories and indigenous communities in the Tapajós National Forest.
The scalable broadband communication network solution provides protective tools to the forest and its residents to monitor their land.
It also enables the transaction of decolonized information between communities and territories, strengthening social organization and broadening access to internet-enabled devices within the forest.
fig.1 Deforestation between 1984 - 2012 in the Tapajós region
fig.2 App interface: biodiversity mapping
fig.3 RF propagations in the Tapajós generated by the communication network
fig.4 App interface: geotag and identification of species along path
fig.5 Deforested zones in the Tapajós region
fig.6 Temporal densities mapped in the Tapajós National Forest
fig.7 Projection of data onto 1:30,000 milled model of the Tapajós region: RF propagations
fig.8 1:30,000 milled model of the Tapajós region
fig.9 Projection of data onto 1:30,000 milled model of the Tapajós region: deforestation between 1984 - 2012
fig.10 Mesh Node propagation
fig.11 Scale model of technical components in the rainforest.
fig.12 Density of individual trees