Research's IaaC - Barcelona: Wat-ergy

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