Research's IaaC - Students Research -

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.

The water habitat should be understood as a larger strategy defined by a double structured “machine” – under water and upper – are part of the same system, constantly negotiating with the environment – with different scales – and promoting an intensive interaction between them trough the water dynamics cycle. A component is designed to perform both as a water purification system and a space generator able to adjust, modify and characterize an environment. This component is multiplied in its several combinations either technical either space generator, creating a field with different degrees of concentration and porosity, defining a neighborhood. The domesticy of the neighborhood is recognized trough the strong negotiation promoted in the intermediate spaces and the rotation of the membranes that react to that social dynamic interaction. The neighborhood is also understood as a ground of energetic efficiency where sufficiency is recognized as a plural strategy towards a global benefit. By Abel Patacho, Theodora Christoforidou

Adaptive microclimates is a prototype that through a caving system creates different microclimates. Through a gradient of different size of caves, controls the temperature according to the external inputs. The final project is situated at the delta d’ebre at the isla de buda and as a landscape manipulates the rising of the water level due to the tides. The bigger cavities with fewer connections are at the sea side controlling the waves and stabilising the coastline, and the smaller ones with more connections are at the side of the lagoon manipulating the water circulation for cultivations. The program emerges from the different situations and microclimates. The landscape systems extrudes at 3 point responding to the three different site-zones of the site, in order to accept habitable spaces. At the lagoon coast the main activity that emerges is the cultivation of algas, at the dry sand land the salt drying, and at the sea coast emerge fishing activities. Thus the prototype system adapts each time to the different environmental conditions and the program and living activities emerge and adapt to the different microclimates. By Chiara Farinea, Froso Charamboulous, Panagiota Piperidou

The topography of an hilly region near El Perello town (Catalunya, Spain) and its climate (in terms of sun and wind) become in principal the departing point in the creation of a clustering prototype with the capability to adjust to these different conditions. The clusters are the grouping of living environments organized around working environments. Since one of the main economic engines of the area is the production of bee honey and fruity-colture, the introduction of bee farming as a programmatic element becomes the organizing factor and the sustaining element for the community. Bees are capable of very quickly start a colony just by the relocation of one queen. In the same way, the community can expand and generate new clusters. By Alfonso Pezzi, Diego Camargo