FLYING THE HURRIE
ROBERTO GARCIA R. MA. ELIZABETH PARAS G. KENYA MEDINA F.
TUTOR M. ARCH. ALEX RDZ. FALL ‘10
INDEX BACKGROUND ....................02 RESEARCH ....................04 EXPERIMENT ....................09 FORMAL DESIGN ....................12 PROGRAMATIC USES ....................18 INTERIOR COMMUNICATION ....................24 SKIN ....................34 RESPONSIVE BEHAVIOR ....................38 MASTER PLAN ....................48 OPERATION ....................52 EXTERIOR AND INTERIORS ....................55
BACKGROUND
During Fall 2010 �Flying The Hurrie� was designed as a Touristic Complex located in Cancun, one of the most touristic cities in Mexico, in its limits with Puerto Juarez in a site of 17 acres near to its principal avenues. Cancun is one of the most affected cities by hurricanes in Mexico, for which it was decided to investigate more about this natural phenomenon, and base the project in this research, with the purpose of minimizing the effects that hurricanes could cause. Giving the touristic complex an advantage among the rest. 3
RESEARCH
The form of the plan was created understanding the behavior of hurricanes in this area. A hurricane forms when the sun heats the ocean waters at a temperature over 80째 F, causing humid air to heat, expand and begin to rise. Water vapor condenses reaching a certain level to form storm clouds. This
creates a cycle with heat and energy. Pressure descends in the center of the storm through the hurricane and the high pressure of the borders pushes to the exterior rotating counterclockwise. This natural phenomenon is affected by for principal factors: temperature over 80째 F, humidity, winds, and spin.
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WINDS INTENSITY GRAPHS
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1. Wilma; 2. Alex; 3. Ike; 4. Emily; 5. Dean; 6. Karl; 7. Alberto; 8. Ernesto; 9. Dolly; 10. Rita
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WIND INTENSITY
To create the form of the plan, wind intensity graphs of the ten hurricanes with the most impact in the area were analyzed. Noticing a pattern created in which winds with more intensity are located in the
north-east and start decreasing as they reach earth rotating counterclockwise, once they begin entering sea again in the southeast, they start gaining intensity once more making this a repeatable cycle.
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To generate a height mapping of the project, three-dimensional hurricane intensity wind graphs were studied, generating a mapping by locating the highest levels of the complex in the less intense wind areas (western side), reducing hurricane effects. Following the same analysis the lowest height areas in the most exposed zone of the complex were located acting as a windbreaker. The height mapping created represents an anticyclones’ complex.
EXPERIMENT
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Generated using “Biomodel Jmol� 10
The complex was based on the form of a Molecular Dynamic Model. First, to obtain the final form of the water molecule, a regular model of the water molecules exposed to an average balanced temperature and humidity was generated; maintaining a regular hexagonal grid (fig.1). The same molecules with the same structure was submitted to a tempe-
rature differential which caused a deformation on the regular grid causing a horizontal displacement (fig.2). In the third figure these water molecules excite due to the temperature was noticed, therefore they start moving and approching themselves to one another forming bonds in a tetrakadeicahedrical geometry (fig.3).
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FORMAL DESIGN
TETRAKAIDECAHEDRON This is the geometric form basis, because of the water molecule’s structural configuration which consists of two hexagons and twelve pentagons. As a result of the experiment we obtained the Tetrakaidecahedron.
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Once defined the emplacement, the height references, and the complex form, we recreated a combination of these three factors. Attractor points were used to locate the most intense zone of each area.
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PROGRAMATIC USES
For the Programatic Uses the complex was divided in four main areas based on the properties that each one of them required.
HOTEL ZONE HOTEL ZONE COMMERCIAL COMERCIAL ZONEZONE RESIDENTIAL ZONE RESIDENTIAL ZONE
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Hotel Zone Ocean view, green areas and lagoon Direct access to green areas Direct access main avenue Direct access to commercial zone Mayor height Commercial zone Direct access to commercial and hotel zone Ocean view, green areas and lagoon Direct access main avenue Residential Zone Direct access to green areas Privacy Beach Front Recreation Zone Centralized area with open and green spaces Direct access to commercial, hotel and residential zone 20
CONCEPTUAL VIEWS
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INTERIOR COMMUNICATION
Due to the complexity of the structure solving the interior was a challenge. To arrange the interior communication an algorithmic model growth was noticed consisting in the vertical development from a key piece by which the rest tetrahedric elements spread.
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Diagrams showing the development process of the vertical circulations through the algorithmic model growth and its formal language in the complex.
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Diagrams showing the development process of the horizontal circulations through the algorithmic model growth and its formal language in the complex.
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Plan indicating circulations development. 31
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COMERCIAL
SINGLE ROOM
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VERTICAL CIRCULATION
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HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION
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SKIN
Tetrakaidecahedron, geometric form basis.
Extracted primitive geometry.
Structural Logic.
Subdivided facades Subdivision process of bicubic v-splines.
Refinement application under the CatmullClark algorithm, supressing vertices.
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Regulating openings;illumination, termic and visual purposes.
Thickness for material properties.
Iterarations of possible results.
Integration of results.
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Potentialized result (applied material properties; illumination, termic and visual purposes).
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RESPONSIVE BEHAVIOR
Considering the mass, the frame and the geometry the system was described through a bi-dimensional abstract model. A matrix was made with these modifiers to obtain a list of all the possible behaviors responding to a change of the variables: temperature and humidity.
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In the matrix, each factor represents certain properties of the complex such as solar wind incidence, illumination and views.
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Representation of the combination of all the possible modifications.
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Orderly representation of the combination of all the applied modifiers.
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Architectural catalogue of all the possible skins in the project
As a result of the matrix we obtained a catalogue of efficient responses according to the bioclimatic conditions of humidity and temperature.
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Metallic structure covered with glass and surrounded by an LCCT composite material (Land Creaation Construction Technology) skin, which properties are lightness and weather resistance.
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Matrix study system continuity 47
MASTER PLAN
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OPERATION
Diagram showing the aerodynamic properties of the module and complex. The complex works according to the Bernoulli principle which avoids the spread of high and low pressure through the upper and lower homogeneous flow.
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Force diagram showing the operation of the compression structure, since the basic structures are the burden of higher structures.
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EXTERIOR AND INTERIORS
Cantiliver of the commercial area 56
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Clear Orientation and unobstructed public space. 64
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Interior of commercial zone. 68
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Hotel zone interior. 70
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Hallway. 72
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