Research's IaaC - Students Research - Self Sufficient Territories

Research Studio I: Emergent Territories
Faculty: Vicente Guallart
Assistant: Hemant Purohit,
Student: Ander Gortazar Balerdi, Jacek Markusiewicz

Self_ Sufficient Ecobarrio II Term: Director Vicente Guallart, Assistant: Hemant Purohit

The main issue of the Hyperhabitat research project is to try to develop a general theory about the understanding of the structures and logics where the construction of the urbanity is based, considering urbanity as a complex and diverse ecosystem were the people is able to develop their lives in a artificial environment exchanging information between them.

The understanding of this complex reality as a system of networks that are mixed between them is the starting point for the methodology of analyse; ‘urban network structures’ are based on four elements:

Nodes > concentrate the information and specific contents

Nets > distribute the information between nodes

Environment > supports all the systems in a specific context

Protocols > organise the ingredients of the system: the information

Research Studio I: Emergent Territories
Faculty: Vicente Guallart
Assistant: Hemant Purohit,
Student: Renata Helena Uebe Nogueira , Roberto Javier Dumont

A diagrammatic scheme that refers and responds to the problematic - constructing a self sufficient city. A diagrammatic system of 1000 cities , a structure based on self organized systems. A continuously transforming and evolving diagrammatic system that has 1000 potential, possible answers-results. The final result is an interpretation based on the different environmental, economical, social inputs and its structure derives from changing parameters and forces. An economical system based on different economical unit systems working indipendently based on different economical sources. An energetic enviromental system based on renewable energy and hydrogen. Self sufficient units each one with its own energy source combined with smaller systems of energy in the interior. A multiethnic system of people with different cultures interchanging experiences. Combined unities of different cultures into one totality that at the same tinme respects the identity of each unit. Team: Frosso Charalambous, Chiara Farinea, Carmen Ferrando Ortells, Panagiota Piperidou, Anna Szloser Directed by Vicente Guallart

The project of Estrella is founded on a research that follow two different paths: _on one side we developed a model of city in which all the urban parameter derives from the data about an optimized energy consumption. A parametric model of a selfsufficient city. _on the other side we developed an event city. A city that will be developed using the potential that the event can bring in the city, in terms of energy, infrastructure, services. Estrella is a city divided in units in which the quantity of energy production and the area is fixed. The energy is produced inside the unit and partially integrated with the built and open space. Each unit can have a different proportion between the quantity of people, the average level of built space, the percentage of open space and residual space. The usage of the residual space gives the identity to each unit. Team: Berardo Matalucci, Chrysokona Mavrou, Vasileios Ntovros, Fabiano Spano Directed by Vicente Guallart

An analysis of the existing dune patterns of the site, occurred due to the effects of the wind, showed linear dunes, located in three different angles and scales. The three angle patterns were translated to three types of densities, connected to the working activities, urban facilities and residential ,each one refering to each separate system of local and tourist people.The type and the intensity of the program activities were defined according to the social and economic developping strategy of the city, while their position on site was based on deformation tools, depending on the effects of the coast line, the port, the bus terminal and the airpot in the case of the locals\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' system, and of the coastline in the case of the tourists.Existing dune structures were analyzed in the aspect of their physical appearance, their wind behaviour and their tension of merging and creating complex types, in order to give to this natural element programmatic and density parameters.The hybrid units were chosen in the points of high density of activities and consist of a \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"hybrid tower\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"(a vertical transformation of the dune geometry) , an infrastructure dune applying the \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"foggara system\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" for the production of water and an accumulation of trees. These units are also the nodes of water(foggara system), waste (integrated circle of organic waste) and energy (wind mills) infrastructure. Team: Theodora Christoforidou, Karlo De Soto, Fani Natou, Fotios Vasilakis Directed by Vicente Guallart

How to produce energy from the sea? Starting from the rigid grid of Barcelona we understood the area of the project and the industrial area inside. By the opposite part we found the smoothed geometry of the biggest green area in Barcelona, Montjuic. It is characterized by a more natural landscape movement. In order to plan the housing for 10.000 people, the idea was to join the green area of Montjuic with the gray industrial area of the Port of Barcelona. Analysing self sufficiency in nature, one of the most important phenomena is the deciduousness in trees. The new natural grid will be able to receive as many houses as we want and the growth of the housing system is like the growth of leaves in the branches. When we don\\\\'t need houses we move them away leaving a green space, but when we need more houses we can fill the empty spaces in the new grid. Continuing the understanding of how a tree lives and produces energy, we introduced a nano-technological element, in order to bring the water from the sea, to desalinate it and than to produce energy. This microscopic element is called \\\\"carbon nano-tube\\\\". Carbon nano-tubes , an allotrope of carbon, are members of the fullerene structural family. The super smooth inside of the nano-tubes allow liquids and gases to rapidly flow through, while the tiny pore size can block larger molecules like minerals. Team: Gabriella Castellanos, Enrico Crobu, Ki hoon Nam, Alfonso Pezzi Directed by Willy Müller

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