The Green Dip: How to Fully Green (Y)our City?

What city would you dip into a thick layer of green?
Why green? What are its capacities? How does green perform? How can green be implemented to our cities? Can we create a database of plant species? Can we create a software to help us do it? Can we invent a series of green elements to be implemented?
If we want to face the climate crisis, let’s start by finding answers to some what’s, why’s and how’s.
Why Green?
The Why Green chapter discusses six urban urgencies which greening cities can address: The urban heatisland effect, air pollution, sinking cities, noise pollution, more frequent extreme weather, decrease in biodiversity.
The Green Maker
The Green Maker combines the knowledge of buildings with the knowledge of plants. A set of 9 strategies can be chosen to dip any base typology in green. A catalog of parametric elements allows for grasses, shrubs, and trees to be placed on any surface in on and around buildings. Knowledge of biomes ensures that only native plants can be used per site. And finally a database of 4500 plants including their water needs, total weight, maximum height, oxygen production and co2 absorption are included.
Green Cities
Watch the green maker dip a 1000m x 1000m section of Dubai, New York, Moscow and Mumbai into a thick layer of plants.
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Credits:
The Why Factory, TU Delft
Teachers:
Winy Maas, Javier Arpa, Adrien Ravon, Lex te Loo, Leo Stuckardt
Students:
Alex Da Costa Gomez ,Anne de Schepper ,Antonia Bohn ,Clara Beckers ,Daniel Sobieraj ,Daryna Chernyshova ,David Fritz ,Dries Brøns ,Emma Chris Avramiea ,Eszter Katona ,Fraser Carroll ,Gongbu Han ,Hannah Namuth ,Jacqueline Yueh ,Jesslyn Humardani ,Júlia Dubois Auleda ,Katharina Stommel ,Koen Meijman ,Loen Sung ,Ludvig Sundberg ,Maciej Moszant ,Maja Lindborg ,Michelle Li ,Mihaela Tomova ,Mikołaj Strzelczuk ,Natalie Keynton ,Rogier Tamminga ,Siddharth Jain ,Sophie Vrisekoop ,Sophie van Riel ,Stanisław Klajs ,Ton van Giessen ,Ugo Azoulay ,Yi Shan ,Yuchen Li
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About Us
The Why Factory (T?F) is a global think-tank and research institute led by professor Winy Maas, founding partner of MVRDV. It explores possibilities for the development of our cities by focusing on the production of models and visualisations for cities of the future.
Education and research of The Why Factory are combined in a research lab and platform that aims to analyse, theorise and construct future cities. The Why Factory investigates within the given world and produces future scenarios beyond it; from universal to specific and global to local. It proposes, constructs and envisions hypothetical societies and cities; from science to fiction and vice versa. The Why Factory thus acts as a future world scenario making machinery.
We want to engage in a public debate on architecture and urbanism. The Why Factory’s findings are therefore communicated to a broad public in a variety of ways, including exhibitions, publications, workshops, and panel discussions.
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Website: www.thewhyfactory.com
Instagram: / thewhyfactory_winy.maas
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Publications
At the core of The Why Factory’s campaign is a series of books -the ‘Future Cities Series’-, which is being published in association with nai010 Publishers in Rotterdam. In the ‘Future Cities Series’ the following books have been published: Visionary Cities (2009), Green Dream (2010), The Why Factor(y) (2010), The Vertical Village (2011), Hong Kong Fantasies (2011), City Shock (2012), We Want World Wonders (2014), Barba (2015), Absolute Leisure (2016), Copy Paste (2017) and Porocity (2018).
Books: www.naibooksel...

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