Wait…What Does Frenetic Mean?

Coming to a city near you, a social amenity which reimagines the streetscape to accommodate personal electric vehicles and RoboBins–trash collecting robots which will take the trash to a waste-energy plant. Electricity from the plant is used to power work-cafes which double as EV and RoboBin charging hubs. Through a system of power hubs and waste-energy plants, the urban environment can utilize their waste to power the life of the city.

School of Architecture | Undergraduate Architecture
Student: Weilin Berkey
Faculty: Jason Lee, Scott Sorenson
Black and blue top view drawing of a building on the corner of an intersection. People on skateboards, bikes and scooters can be seen driving on the sidewalk and also within the building to charge their vehicles. There are also desks and chairs meant for working. Certain walls are blurred to create a sense of motion within the building.
The project is designed for public use. People can come and go and utilize the charging stations, which promotes accessibility to personal electric vehicles.
Exterior perspective view of the corner of the building. There are some trees in the foreground and the building is in the mid ground. You can see the trash robots buzzing across the street as well as pedestrians and people on bikes and electric vehicles. The façade of the building is inset from the boundaries of the building and one part juts out over the sidewalk. The building is concrete and a grey color
View from the opposite side of the intersection allows you to see the frenetic nature of the area and the way the RoboBins would incorporate themselves into the urban streets.
Interior perspective of a workspace area. There are plywood tables, chairs, and lamps. There is also a dome-shaped wall that is light-colored concrete. People are blurred in the image to simulate movement.
Interior view of a study area in the building. Through the fading of people, a sense of life is shown in the space. The walls can be moved in order to customize the experience at this cafe.
Diagram of the system and components in the waste management amenity. It begins with the city producing waste which is then collected by the RoboBins and brought to the waste energy plant. The made electricity is then brough to the work cafe/power hub and distributed back to the users of the city.
Diagram showing the different components and connection of this waste management system. Specs of the RoboBins are also shown.
Site plan of the frenetic area. Different lines in shades of blue and green are drawn along the streets to show paths of travel from different users. There are circles with different components, like the waste-energy plant and the work cafes.
The site map of the newly designed area shows how regular cars will be eliminated from the roads to encourage the use of electric vehicles.
here is a white speckled wall that is mostly straight but at the bottom has a rectangular-shaped indent. The indent is smooth like melted plastic. Sitting in that indent is a wooden box with two sides removed like a tube. Within, there is a person working at a desk. The ground is a concrete gray. There is also a person riding a scooter in the scene.
Model photo of wall morph study to change the working space.
Link to the project documentation.
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