Research's IaaC - Students Research - Self Sufficient Building

The “Tokyo project” is a result of certain decisions taken in terms of self-sufficiency through three aspects: natural, social and contemporary events. Protection from the environment, differential exposure to natural forces and differentiation of the material sources are the choices related to nature. Temporary property and a range of privacy and meeting variations are the proposals emerging from social self-sufficiency and precariousness depending on the results of the customization of the users, a leisure zone, and overlapping networks of different elements are proposed to obtain self sufficiency in terms of contemporary events. By Chrysokona Mavrou

Can we read the complexity of a metropolis like São Paulo identifying and understanding self_organized systems that work through an interactive process? The proposal searches to explore the internal organization of an open_system – a building - trough the manipulation of self_organized systems - organized into dwelling, leisure, mobility, structure and energy units. Each system increases in complexity without being guided or managed by an outside source _ the façades are defined by several “self_sufficient” patterns that react to different needs and evolution in time. By Abel Patacho

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

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