Research's IaaC - Students Research -

The city of Cairo is the main focal point in all Egypt, thus migration from rural areas of the northen and southern part of the country is expected and is overwhelming. This factor, plus lack of regulation in many aspects brings to the city various dilemmas: demand for housing, high air and water pollution, lack of public areas and creating satellite cities. These factors will be taken into account into the design process of this building. In no way iti is implied that this project will resolve all of this issues, but it will incorporate them in such a way that they are reflected and manipulated in order to create a sustainable building in a economic, social and environmental way. With a programmatic redistribution of dwelling areas mixed with agriculture crops and public spaces, the functionality of the building will provide descent housing for the high demographic of migrants and permanent families, a chance to produce income and consumption products from the crop areas and open space for public use. By Karlo Alejandro De Soto Molina

This vertical building was designed in New York City. Specific elements that characterized the city were used, like the big pollution in the city, CO2, the trajectory of the wind, the distribution of the 5 boroughs in the city, the supply of the water and the city as a melting pot. Respecting to the CO2 I used tidal coated with titanium dioxide a pollution-fighting technology activated by day light and an electrostatic system to attract the dust in the air. The water in the building has 3 different ways of recollection by the main supplier of the city, by the rain, and absorbing water of the sea. The floors of the building are setting in a way that allow the entirely ventilation of it. To represent the melting pot, I create a big park in the bottom of the building that can be use by the residence and the city, and the building has 2 parks distributed in the middle of it to allow the interaction between the neighbours. By Lilieth Aparicio

The concept to develop this building consisted of analysing an aglomeration of arguments that explains the actual situation of the city of Paris. Paris is now a city that is sailing a beautiful image while in reality have critical problems in society.The strongest one is the social debate betwen the politics ideology trying to answer the necesities of the society. That is why this project tries to compare the two ideologies in a dinamic skin with movement systems, of which the housing units can be adapted by the user depending on their needs. The users can experiment diferents functions and conditions. By Luz Escobar Michel

Beijing is the cultural capital of China. It consist of a rich history that it is being removed from the residential area of the city. Families have been reduced, and the extended family has become a myth. So the project focuses on the social aspects of Beijing; creating 3 scenarios of families, and mixing each scenario with the amount of space needed and a specific skin typology. By doing so, it makes a building with continuous growth and morphology, that adapts to the different living conditions of the emergent families. By Natalia Enid Miranda Morales

A combination of micro-systems, in a structure, giving it the character of a building…….or not. A public student residence, in a city with a 24 year old medium age, 3 universities………but no public student accommodation for the poor. An infrastructure without walls and using reflections to deal with the high crime rate……psychology in action. Sun collectors, water collectors that function in a different way above or under the ground……...the positive and negative. The functions that emerge from the different microenvironments……..no predetermined use of space. A self-sufficient building(?) situated on the limit……. By Panagiota Piperidou

Construction boom and floating population are characteristic elements of Shanghai city. The “gruascape” propose a flexible, sustainable and efficient system that take advance all the spaces under construction. The contemporary nomads can find new conditions of habitat and can enrich the previous “vague” places with new functions. By Ntovros Vasileios

The project is based, by the research concepts of the sites, in developing an economical, social and environmental system that could generate a new formula in thinking about the sustainability. The microelements define the basical strategies. These are the environments (water-land, ice-land, ground-land, forest-land…), the saunas (that provides the heat system of the building and define influence areas), and the little fishes (camping tents, self-organized and distributed around the saunas). The contacts are the structure, and the communication is based in holding objects. Moreover, the saunas protect the little fishes when these are in hibernation phase, but when the fishes become adults they are self-sufficient protected. It’s a growing system in interaction with the environment. By Carmen Ferrando Ortells

The city of Sydney due to the global warming is suffering from water shortage. In order to provide water to the citizens the proposal of the new self sufficient building for the city consist of a system for catching water through rain fall and reserved it. The building acts as a mechanism that makes the water flow through all the space units providing each space with water for different uses such as water for drinking, water for domestic use, water to produce electricity, water for irrigation and for recycling process.