Andean Contemporary Intervention
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Peru
Lima
Huaycan Zone D
Huaycan
Huaycan Zone Q
Huaycan Zone Z
Andean Contemporary Intervention
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Huaycan photo by: Jingxi Zhang
photo by: Jingxi Zhang
photo by: Jingxi Zhang
photo by: Tiffany Alberty
photo by: Tiffany Alberty
photo by: Jingxi Zhang
Informal Settlement
photo by: Jingxi Zhang
Andean Contemporary Intervention
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Huaycan Sectioning Analysis (along the main road of Zones D, Q, and Z)
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Hyper Arid Desert; < 2” precipitation; 98% humidity (in fog) In Lima infrastructure can’t support formal popluation - families store water from tap (as it intermittent) - families boil tap or use bottle water before drinking In Huaycan Infrastructure not available for water - families by water from trucks like the ones above (4-10 x the cost of water from formal infrastructure) on field trip: fellow student falls prey to bad water (caught water-borne parasite giardia; even though she only drank bottled water)
Assist water problem through Architecture and Decentralized Infrastructure respecting culturally accepted building techniques and materials. Principles to follow:
photo by: Clare Cardinal-Pett
respect cultural building ideals - low cost - self-buildable - build over time - don’t waste space - expandable / never complete
Harvest Air's Water in Arid Places
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/photogallerie...
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decentralized infrastructure MAIN
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ANCIENT WORLD
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(community scale)
CULTURES NEWS
SPACE/TECH NEWS
WEIRD
(family scale)
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possibilty adding identity and marketing colorful neighborhoods, typical
PHOTOS: Fog Catchers Harvest Air's Water in Arid Places
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Alternative water source --no rain; 90% humidity; several months of fog -- single net 150 gal/day; triple net; 600 gal/day July 9, 2009--When dense fog sweeps in from the Pacific Ocean, special nets on a hillside near SHARE Lima, Peru, catch the moisture and provide Digg precious water to an area that gets very little StumbleUpon rainfall--about half an inch (1.5 centimeters) a year. Reddit The nets stand perpendicular to the prevailing wind, which blows fog into the coarse, woven plastic mesh. From there, drops of fog-water fall into gutters that carry the water to collection tanks.
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Since 2006 the nets--built by German conservationists Kai Tiedemann and Anne Lummerich--have helped provide the village of Bellavista, 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Lima, with hundreds of gallons of water each day during the foggy winter months of June to November.
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Chilean Fog-Catchers
Beetle's Shell Offers Clues to Harvesting Water in the Desert Text: Fog Catchers Bring Water to Parched Villages
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Photograph by Anne Lummerich
photo by: Amanda Wiemer
photo by: Amanda Wiemer
Andean Contemporary Intervention
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decentralized infrastructure
(community scale)
(family scale)
Housing Analysis (concrete frame)
1 story houses have front overhangs roofs are free available space rebar* jets out of roof for future growth frame is reinforced concrete* aesthetic is vastly different than in US
* rebar, concrete, brick are noble building materail that is understood.
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decentralized infrastructure ROOFING SYSTEM (household scale) use Passive SYSTEMS (gravity, solar, manual labor) !! transformable / collapsible
brick storage used as frame
blue tarp used as liner
brick storage used as weight
rebar storage used as frame
Alternative/Inexpensive alternatives water filtration (household scale) shallow pool for condensation (filtration) (salt-, trucked-, or fog-) water cisterning; addittionally reusable filtration mylar only new material
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gutters temporarily affixed laterally by rebar and supported for slope from bricks from storage