2012: Transforming the Bridge | 12185

Team: Jacob Graves

Location: Ames, Iowa

Overview: The time has come. Perhaps for the first time in history we, the human race, have to consciously decide the fate of our planet. For thousands of years we lived in relative harmony with the systems that nature has perfected and in the last two hundred and fifty years we have pushed every system to the brink of irreversible destruction. Once we stopped living on solar pay checks and living on solar credit, everything changed. Like every debt, the time has come and the collection agent is knocking on the door.
By drastically changing the way we make things we got ourselves into this situation. Fortunately for us, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Logic would tell us that by once again drastically changing the way we make things along with the reasons that we make them could once again change the history of the future.
This design represents a system wide re-purposing of anything and everything manufactured by man. By starting with the infrastructure that the rest of the system is built around, we will strategically force a paradigm shift in the areas that need it the most. The time has come for us to start manufacturing the future.