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Research's IaaC - AQVA habitat

AQVA habitat

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