Research's IaaC - Students Research -

Santorini is an island made from the erection of a volcano. All the land is like a museum of geology. In this project we studied two different qualities of space. The one is the inside, the dark and humid space, full of history and traces. The other one the outside, is the luminous and light space, full of possibilities. Thus we create a “tower” on the outside. A Tower based on new technologies, providing energy and water in a self sufficient manner. In the inside we excavated a space, an empty space that works as an open museum. These two spaces are connected to each other, the one is like a machine that provides power and the other is like a system that can not function without this power. By Theodora Christoforidou

The city of Lagos faces a very fast growth. One thing that is interesting in Lagos is the “resistance” that it makes on the western type developments. It looks that Lagos absorbs every at¬tempt that is made base on the western type development, and makes it it’s owns. Based on this observation, the first thing that we de¬cide to do was to provide to the people of Lagos the required infrastructure for living and working, and give them the freedom to build according to their needs. In order to do that we studied the turtle system and we try to develop a script tha generates a dynamic system based on the enviroment of lagos and that it can be adaptive to diferent programs. By Fotis Vasilakis

Social Sustainability. This building aims to rehabilitate people between the ages of 18-21, who have committed minor crimes and misdemeanors by creating activities that can use the productive aspect of their time for correction and rehabilitation. Economical Sustainability. This building is a productive industrial farm. It is based on the concepts of permaculture and the generation of micro systems that allow for optimum production and quality. Environmental Sustainability. The vertical farm concepts\\\\' intention is to meet the demands of today\\\\'s population growth v.s. the amount of farmland available (there is not enough land to farm). It is designed to be a Zero Emission building, and as a matter of fact its energetic revenues should result creating a continuous surplus that can then be sold to the grid. By Gabriel Ochoa

As the Soviet Union fell apart in Moscow many of its projects were put on hold, and some cancelled altogether. For the first time, there was no longer any control over what theme or how high a building should be. Looking for a way to break with the closed and repressive building scene of the soviet Moscow , to fragmentize it, the Communal House for Textile Institute students was chosen for that purpose. The building has a 200 meter-long eight-floor block with 1000 6 m2 cabins, which was the specific area where the self-sufficient definitions and decisions were applied. These decisions led to a social integrated and environmentally responsive layer or “skinâ€￾, where events, processes, interchange takes place. By Gabriella Castellanos

In an average western context, things usually seem to be about accumulation, improvement and supposedly progress. The question for this project was to think how the opposite could be dealt in a war zone. The case study was Baghdad. The building tries to incorporate different microelements to negotiate with the context. It’s made up of a basic structure which can accommodate improvements but also survive with the minimum. By Guillermo Iván

This design is for the future. Now we almost could foresee our future about energy will be use the clean energy to continue our life. For this project, I would like choose the thermo-nuclear energy that is a kind of clean energy to develop my project. Though this kind of energy is not perfect now, we believe it will be the main kind of life energy in the future. It should build near the sea, and it can combine with the hydrogen energy another clean energy to beautify our life. As we know Dubai is a city between the sea and the desert, and it is rich. It has the good condition to anticipate the thermo-nuclear energy. Now we suppose it’s the future, and the Dubai has begun to use the thermo-nuclear energy and the hydrogen energy. By Zhao Honghao

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