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How do we see the city, the most complex thing man has designed? We daily navigate the topology of the city, as if we know and own it but as Antoine de Saint Exupery wrote, much of ‘… what is essential, is invisible to the eye’. Once, much of what is hidden was under our feet – sewers, pipes and power-cables – but now there are virtual systems too, flowing through the air unseen.
To paraphrase Reyner Banham, if a home is not a house, a building is not a building and a city is not a city. All are dense systems of aligned networks made manifest in physical form. Digitisation and the information revolution has made the abstract and the invisible evermore a critical site in the production of real physical architecture. If, for the Situationists the city was a confrontation between the psycho and the spatial, in the Naked City of now, in the space of flows that transcends all objects and experiences, there are other opportunities for architecture to both understand and act: to connect, to close loops and cycles, to conflate energy with urban systems, to synthesise and speculate on the design of the future.
Perhaps architecture has never been as solid nor as stolid as we thought, it’s built on shifting sands that never rest and are becoming more restless. This publication seeks to explore some of the hidden architectures that influence and condition life in the city on a daily basis, beginning within the servicing of the house and expanding over a square kilometre of city fabric.
Foreword
Belfast 2017
The Square Kilometre
Introduction
Electricity
Water
Transport
Physically Wireless
Ecosystems
Gas
Security
Waste
The Bathroom
1976
Introduction
‘Communism is Electrification’
1924
‘The Rise of Electricity’
‘Electrical Dependency’
‘UK Supergrid’
‘Electrical Grid a Target’
‘The Mechanics of Electricity’
The Naked House
Conclusion
Introduction
How Long Have We Got?
Kilkeel to Annalong
1972-1976
Annalong to Slieve Donard
1982-1983
Aquarius
1999-2004
Water Supply
Water Treatment - Equipment
Equipment List
Conclusion
A Cycle Friendly City?
Introduction
Destinations
Why We Travel
Traffic Lights
Bicycles
Buses
Taxis
Ambulances
Deliveries
Petrol Systems
Electric Cars
Location of EV Charging Points
Conclusion
Introduction
Conclusion
Introduction
Humanity + Nature
Nature - Machines for the City
Lungs for the City
Amenity for the People
Nature for Nature
Conclusion
Introduction
The beginning or the end?
From the Street
The Distribution Network
Pressure Reduction Valves
The Historical Network
Pressure Reduction Station
UK & Ireland Distribution Network
Beattock Gas Compressor
St. Fergus Gas Terminal
Europe Pipelines
Conclusion
Introduction
Police Stations in Northern Ireland
Fragmenting
A Street’s Security
Conclusion
Introduction
Pakamatic
The Dustcart
1960
The Terberg Bin Movement
The Ritual of Waste
The Distribution of Waste
Waste Water Movement
The Tunnel Sewer
Facts
Waste Water Treatment Process
Aeration Tank
The Clarifier
Sludge Treatment Process & Power Generation
Centrifugal Pump
Conclusion
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