“An Exhaustive Collection” is a collection of speculative diagrams that display urban solutions to local and regional urban environments. Local environments are the structures themselves and how they are embedded into the neighborhood. Regional environments are the impacts on a city | with a focus on implementation in dense cities. The goal is to discover ways to expose exhaust and mechanical systems in a piece of architecture by analyzing. And that is not to say expose it as an aesthetic feature like the Pompidou Center, but to cleverly conceal systems while, at the same time revealing how these systems are concealed and also maintaining an ease of access to those systems. By compiling a section of elements to showcase hidden system, this book can serve to be the start of a more extensive systems and parts index/catalog collection.
Hyde Park Obelisk in Sydney, Australia serves as a masked vent for Sydney's toxic sewer environment
Speculated association between New York City's Oculus transportation hub and it's next door neighbor Two World Trade Center
Originally made vacant for London's King's Cross Station steam trains that run underneath this part of London's residential properties
Located in Brooklyn, NYC, this hollow building to filtrate subway air with subway access via a stair cases that travel nine stories below ground in case of emergencies
Located in Paris, France, this hollow building serves to ventilate Metro hot air. The building is surrounded by Paris's dense city landscape
