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THE CLOUDTHE LANDMARK HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE

“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the coura-geous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the suc-cessful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire with-

in you to leave this world better than when you found it...

Innovation is only a remix of what already exists. Innovation cannot exist without a past, thus in order for a landmark to be successful in its inclusivity it also has to include different points in time such as the past, present and future. Innova-tion is a benchmark drawn by some and pushed further by others.Vertical landmarks are hierarchical; they represent a dominant economical hierarchy because of its financial restriction to access top spaces. The more you go up the more expensive it gets. With this a horizontal, multicultur-al and inclusive landmark that gives an egalitarian eco-nomic access to everybody becomes a new paradigm in icon creation. Reducing aggressiveness present in rela-tive poverty.A quick status quo study on the landmarks up until today shows that the majority are static, without movement. In or-der to push the icon benchmark further to a new para-digm an ever shifting landmark will give a sense of sur-prise and awe. In todays era users not only have their physical three dimensional objects usually called human bodies but also their interactive and electronic objects as well, the landmark must be a service platform that serves all of the them. Silicon Valley is a place where people have pointed to the stars through the clouds. The icon of the cloud raises awareness that the first step to arrive to the stars is being in the clouds. In science the cloud represents a large agglomeration of objects, this way the cloud is an accurate representation of Silicon Valley’s tangible and in-tangible wealth. It is Silicon Valley’s duty to reclaim this hid-den icon with its tangibilization.

Wilferd Peterson

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Confluence of diverse communities, from east and west, from past, present and future, dedicated citizens with civic pride to the common welfare.

Dependency of historical symbols and technological innovation with the graphical concept of the cloud.

Mass orientation respecting the city grid and a gateway to Silicon Valley.

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Solar energy captation / Anti-glare flexible solar photovoltaics

Reconfigurable Interactive skin

Green speed bumps

The cloud object

Urban Fabric

Flexible, adaptable sport courts

Proposed anti - acoustic vegetation

Existing vegetation

Water elements to celebrate the confluence

Items of cultral significance

Urban Fabric reinforcement

Mist nozzle

Water sprinkler nozzle

HORIZONTALITY

Wireless energy Wireless internet Plant microbial Fuell CellsNew generation servers

Urban Fabric

Greenery as elements to reduce noices and velocity. High noise levels are cancelled because of the position of the landmark. Scaling up to the visitors size and activitites.


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Not only net zero but the first icon to approach the idea of a responsive city by giving to the co-munity free internet and energy.


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Horizontality is inclusive and a non hierarchichal form of being.Interactive skin reacts to different data inpute ( visiting amount of people, weather, type ot event, etc...) Water sprinkle and mist nozzels for maintainability and meta effect of cloud.


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Telegraph and radio hub

William schockley- Transistor inven-tion- Funds own com-pany -Transistors from silicon instead of germanium

Silicon Valley

Materials

transistorssolar cells

rectifiers

Don Hoefler

Computer - components

Standford

Materials

StandfordResearch Center

Students

8 employees renounce company

¨ Tra i to ro u s eight ¨

Sherman Fairchild

First Radio Station in San Jose

Dock and mantain the USS Macon

Ames research center

Largest wind tunnel

Hewlett packard founded

MilitaryOhlone

Ceiling of the church at Mission Santa Clara de Asis painted with angels, saints and Clouds.

RitualSmoke TobaccoSky

Tactical clouding

-radar-artillery technology

Intel

Apollo program

Arpanet

XEROX

-ethernet computing-graphical user interface

PARC LAB

PsiQ

Video Games

SpaceTesla

Utopic Mars

Attributes

Black

Paypal

Elon Musk Starlink

Solarcity

SpaceXHyperloop

Google

X-box Playstation

Other companies

The Shed - 2008

Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Blur Building - 1998 - 2002

AppleUber

AirbnbAmazon

Face-

Superposition

AIRPORT

Decoherenceinformation loses over a certain period of time

ConstructiveDestructive

multiplanetary species

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider

ArtistsBerndnaut SmildeTomás Saraceno

On Space Time Foam (2012)Flying Garden/Air-Port-City (2005)

Nimbus Atlas (2015 - 2016)Breaking Light (2015)

View from Guadalupe river trail

C L O U D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO-8CMdeSHA










https://cee.stanford.edu/programs/structural-engineering-geomechanics/research-areas/innovative-materials









https://www.ft.com/content/afc27836-9383-11e9-aea1-2b1d33ac3271



https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJCfOvochA


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Uyfqi_TE8

https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/columnists/mergawati/2013/09/26/innovation-the-keyword-in-trip-to-silicon-valley





- “...and to your right is the new landmark of Silicon Valley, The Cloud“- “wooowww ! “

- “even though we are sitting here, the flood control still works in case of emergency“

- “check this out man, how cool is the cloud from this perspective ! “

- “This is a really great idea to have an outside concert ! “

-“seems that tonight is gonna be a storm“-“why do you say that ? “-“The cloud is announcing it...“

- “ Finally we we are able to marry “- “ Yes, and doing it here is like being in heaven, “- “ Yes, a celebration in the clouds “

- “ Are you happy we are going back home honey? “- “ Not really... “

- “Were are you going honey !? You have to stay still for the photo’! haha “

- “Its always changing “- “Yes, like the people who forged this place “

-“this is a collaboration with a contemporary artist “-“this is fantastic ! “

Landing in Silicon Valley 8:00 pm

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Site Plan

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FaunaPond

Urban beach

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Flexible translucent Solar PvMicrobial Fuel Cells Restaurant

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Guadalupe Highway Comerica Bank

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