Research's IaaC - Students Research -

The project starting point considers the symbiotic dynamics of the lichens, based on two vital processes of most of the ecosystems: photosynthesis and fermentation. The structural and geometrical configuration has been generated to allow daily blooming, provoked by the CO2 production, oxygen absorption and sunlight management. According to the symbiotic principle two material fields are proposed: the down one dedicated to the fermentation process and related to the decomposition of plants organic waste, and the upper one, dedicated to photosynthesis and plant growing. The test of the machine proliferation in a territorial scale is based on the definition of gradients that consider the different quantities of organic waste production, of CO2 production and O2 absorption between the urban areas and the agricultural fields. Team: Berardo Matalucci, Fabiano Spano, Lilieth Apancio, Walle Phiriyaphongsak, Vasileios Ntovros.

Different resolutions of maps gradients get translated into variations of density through the proliferation of a given family of objects in a field. The parameters are set to transform these objects creating an extensive catalog of elements with the aims of altering their own dynamics of interaction and to help differentiating the changes in density. The final result is an abstraction of these densities that generated a pattern-making machine, which then made evident the difference in dynamics of the pieces. Connectivity emerges as a primary issue of investigation. Team: Diego Camargo, Alfonso Pezzi, Enrico Crobu Honghao Zhao, Carmen Ferrando, Guillermo Ivan

The Eco-wings are kinetic structures arranged as modular systems. The composition is based on the addition of single pieces that are transformed into combined objects creating a sequential path. The sequence simulates the movement of the waves and the wing. These objects create choreography by producing a system of opening and closing among the structure. These structures are constantly changing and alternating their position along a semicircular path between 0 and 180 degrees. Team: Assad Rassel, Massiel Santos, Luz Escobar, Gabriel Ochoa.

The purpose of this project in Rome is to find possible solutions for some of the problems that affect the city nowadys. In order to answer to the needs of the new social classes (couples, workers, singles... ) and to solve the problem of the marginality of the partecipation of the city council in term of quality and quantity of housing, the vertical building has to be able to adapt itself to the different necessity and it has to be easily transformed. The building grows, starting from the earliest core to the second second surface which is also the connection point between the first building and the landscape. This second adaptive skin-facade changes its aspect when the internal condition and external condition change. It is at the same time an internal \\"habitat\\" and an external environment. An inflatable surface define its different light permeability. It is hold by a triangulated structure made up of carbon fiber. Carbon fiber are 17 time more sustainable because one quarter of the steel has five times the strenght of steel. By Alfonso Pezzi

Jeddah is a city of Saudi Arabia situated by the side of red sea coast; it is one of the oldest cities of the world. It has one of the most important pilgrimages of Muslim religion. So designing a self sufficient vertical building is concentrating on some basic principle of nature as well as concern about religious and culture in Jeddah. The panel consist the ideas concept and basic technologies how to made the building self sufficient. By Asaduzzaman Rassel

The project starts with the analysis of some relevant phenomena that take place in Berlin: the abandonment and reuse of old objects and furniture through the market, covers the economical self-sufficient aspect, the occupation of empty space in the building and the creation of new activities in them , covers the social aspect, and the rapid climate changes, the environmental one. Four floors for the market, ten empty floors for activities and six empty floors for living spaces compose the functional program of the building. The intention is that people can occupy these empty spaces in a temporary way, and organize their space and activities with the objects that they find in the market. The energetic building program is composed by an external captation system, created by tubes of silicon nets and transparent solar panels, a floor distribution and H2 storage system for the energy , a central part with installations and vertical water distribution and a system of hanging tents to divide the space in a quick time. By Chiara Farinea

The bulding is based at a need for fast, easyly assembled, and low cost housing which is directed towards refugees. The building grows at the addition of rooms which structure is based on a enlarged rectangle bicupula (jhonson solid). This composition is made so that the structure can be made so that the length of each vertice is the same and the distance optimised for the implementation of diferent materials. By Cristobal Bernal

The idea of self-sufficiency is explored trough a self fabrication process. All the building can be constructed by the future inhabitants. The constructive system, constituted of a steel triangulated structure allows the use of very few tools and of few people. The straw bale construction for the walls and the use of fiberglass and resins for the floors allows to have high structural and thermodynamic performances in a completely handmade process. The building works as a wind concentrator, to improve the production of energy through vertical axis windmills. The 3 main structural towers have different junction points, that allows different ways of circulation inside the building. The building can be reinforced and can grow according to the necessities of its inhabitants. By Fabiano Spano

A floating structure that implicates three systems of social involment. Amsterdam inhabitments, tourists and events that are recessing or co-exist according to an annual calendar, defining a dynamic social identity of the building. 01 Greenhouses_ rented by local people for cultivation. 02 Camping_ temorary dwellings (tents, boat houses) placed in a network hanged by vertical elements (antenas), using collective spaces (kitchens, wc, device) that are accumulated vertically (antennas) for energy economy reasons. 03 Festivals_ temporary spaces accumulated in three antenas, hosting events according to the local festival calendar (sailing exposition, aquarium, media laboratories). Events that iimplicate water flows and pumping systems in the vertical axis. The events\\\\' system concetrates the energy infrastructure system that consists of windmills, hydroelectric generators and hydrogen batteries, providing with energy the camping area and the greenhouses. The building functions as a battery charging during the winter months, when there are no events, and consumping it during summer. The transparency of the structure allows the building to act as a real time statistic machine that declares social data. By Fanni Natou