Research's IaaC - Students Research - Self Sufficient Building

The objective of the project is to transform one Cerda Block of Barcelona into a Self Sufficient Block.

The main concepts for developing the block were to free the ground level, create an underground patio and use it as a public green space in order to connect and give back interactive spaces to the city.

Organizing the different programs according to better location and connecting them through a green loop that will serve for vertical farming. The inverted topography and the courtyards of the building will work as structure, vertical circulation and fluid system for sustainable elements, it also becomes the skin of the building.

This metabolic structure will serve to harvest water to produce energy, clean grey water for farming and public green areas, waste management, geothermal system and solar photovoltaic panels on south side of the block were it can take advantage of the most of radiation.

Research Studio II: Self Sufficient Buildings
Faculty: Willy Muller
Assistant: Maite Bravo
Student: Gianluca Santosuosso

Research Studio II: Self Sufficient Buildings
Faculty: Willy Muller
Assistant: Maite Bravo
Student: Emil Burulyanov

The turistizens transformation potential as a tourist and a citizen, both distinct and equal is directly proportional to that of a fictitious argument inside a real hotel: the relation between the hotel and the movies, between Lost in Translation and The Park Hyatt of Tokyo, between
Transpotting and The Royal Eagle Hotel in London, or between Octopussy and The Lake Palace Hotel in Udaipur, in India.

The study will focus on this paradigm working in abstract and generic forms, analyzing the argument of fiction and real space, between the tourist and the citizen, between sleeping or dreaming, translating them into new concepts and designs: We can investigate with these
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Research Studio II: Self Sufficient Buildings
Faculty: Willy Muller
Assistant: Maite Bravo
Student: Marianne Villalobos Emonet

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