Infrastructure occupies a vast amount of space in urban and rural landscapes, supplying towns and villages with technology, mobility and energy. Infrastructure is a technological phenomenon that many engineers work on and develop. However, infrastructure is even more than that. How could infrastructure be seen in a non-technical, speculative narrative? Could infrastructure contribute to healthier conditions in cities? On one hand, health could be approached from an individual, human perspective on specific patterns of human behavior. On the other hand, it could be approached from the perspective of emerging healthier environments. Infrastructure could be compared to an energy supplier: it contains energy and distributes it to the respective points of the area it is providing for. An evenly spread-out network infrastructure could be used to improve the health of the residents of nearby areas. Investigating the human body could help create ambient environmental conditions in order to sustain balance in terms of both physical and physiological health. In this sense, a macro-scaled area would create micro conditions for living and well-being.
While infrastructures outside cities are immense and inhuman, within cities, they should be an integrated part of everyday life, acting as amusement sites where culture thrives. Similar to museums that display artifacts that have influenced today’s culture, infrastructures could remind us of the toxic environments of previous times. Simultaneously, they could be the core of remedial urban environments. Pollution, heat and density are some of the factors that threaten the livability in European cities today. Infrastructures could integrate temporary uses and enable life for other beings that parasitize their large, linear forms, creating a unique environment that would change people's perception of urban space.
