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Chrono_sufficiency is an attempt to expand the field for the discussion in terms of sufficiency and sustainability. Time is a very important factor that is constantly shaping our life. The built environment is usually thought as something that should last forever. But what about making structures that can be ungraded periodically? What about thinking not just in the building process but also in the unbuilding and in the way these structures can be disposed or recycled when they become obsolete?Translating a concept like chrono_sufficiency into a physical matter, or even further, into a project more than a challenge. To recognize the limits of the theme is also to understand the constant mobility of our lifes framed by architecture that acts as the main stage. Chrono_sufficiency is a wider argument to conceptually conduct a projectual strategy. The possibilities identify and define different fluxes that are translated into different velocities. Establish intelligent and efficient connections inside the project and with the city; proposing a dialogue through mobility. Team: Cristobal Bernal, Guillermo I.Lopez, Gabriel Ochoa, Abel Patacho Directed by Willy Müller

This is an observation of several cycles that happen in the city. This cycles are generated by the connection of the metro and by the fact that young people live far away from the center of the city.Plaza Catalunya is a center point in the city from where, the different points that connect the rest of the city, appear. The routes of mobility are open like fun.In the project there has been an effort to translate this movement of Plaza Catalunya creating a main plaza where this movement can generate a lot of dynamism in the neighbourhood, spread the different activities and create an interchange with living, leisure, commerce, education and transportation. How to Get to the Project Area?How to Move in the Project Area? One can access the Project Area by public transportation; metro, bus, and “teleferic”; and by private transportation; meaning cars and bicycles. There is only one main route for motor vehicles, that permits a reasonable walking distance in all the area of the project. Since young people use more public transportation and bicycles for means of mobility and since Barcelona has a problem with CO2 emission levels, our project promote the usage of bikes and ¨pure¨ public transportation. It also incorporates more green areas to help balance the CO2 cycle. Team: Lilieth Aparicio, Diego Camargo, Natalia Miranda, Honghao Zhao Directed by Willy Müller

A new concept of neighborhood in where the young creative are the protagonists. Is a city to fulfill the needs and desires of the young creative. The city is composed basically by neighborhoods that define one creative person. These neighborhoods are related one another by the public space that connects them. The complete city is formed by these different neighborhoods of different creative linked by the public space. In the port of Barcelona is placed this city with the motive to integrate the nature of Montjuic mountain to the sea, and at the same time opening this view of the city to other cities. Breaking a little bit with the industrial history that this port has. Team: Luz Escobar, Massiel Santos, Walee Phiriyaphongsak Directed by Willy Müller

The Aquascape machine is a system created to obtain water filtration through a process of sedimentation. It is developed through the study and definition of different rules of connectivity between systems of spheres organized in layers. The machine can have different behaviors through size variation of the spheres according to differentiated gradients. The population of spheres is treated like cavities and built up through a layering system of cardboard sheets in order to explore the prototype’s physical behavior of absorption, channeling and water storing. Team: Chiara Farinea, Giota Piperidou, Abel Patacho, Frosso Charalambous Dora Christoforidou, Fani Natou

Expansion & Contraction A mesh type structure or \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"weave\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" responds to internal and external activator \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"chambers”, which enables it to expand and contract. These movements were later constrained by a series of fixed and flexible joints, which enabled a more specific observation of the structure’s behavior. Depending on the placement of these “chambers” and also on some constraints rings that were applied either on the extremes or on the middle area, there were a series of variations and behaviors that could be appreciated and were mapped for the further development of the structure. Team: Gabriella Castellanos, Chrysokona Mavrou, Karlo De Soto, Fotis Vasilakis, Natlia Miranda, Cristobal Bernal.

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