House of Lights by Jose Ignacio Ortiz

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‘House of Lights’

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‘House of Lights’

1. Brief 2. Site Climate 3. Site Background 4. Past envisioning the future Inspiration for the design 5. Expansion of Murcia in History 6. Identifying problems in the present Murcia and its Urbanization 7. Case Study: Edificio Alba Introduction 8. Innovations and Research 9. Material Research 10. Description of design Innovations 11. Detailed Drawings 12. Programs 13. Typology Expansion 14. Model Pictures 15. Conceptual Visualization

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Fieldtrip Introduction Group and Prototype Introduction Detailed Prototype Construction Other groups prototypes Final Prototype Photographs

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1. Initial Collages introducing the idea 2. Brief, Program and Agenda 3. Typology Introduction and Mechanism

The House of Lights

The House of the Future 2030-2050 The house of the future will adapt to the inhabitants needs by easily changing its layout organization (not only furniture but also separate elements structures such as the kitchen). Because of the population growth, families will it is likely that in the future, families living in cities will call home a flat in a higher building, for this reason, all commodities from a detached traditional house will have to be adopted in these buildings. The flats will be self sufficient in terms of energy harvesting and ventilation, using and reusing the energy produced within the space, and nature will play an important role in the household every day life, being used for shading, cooling and growing fruits and vegetables to feed the inhabitants. In the urban scale, after years of pushing the nature out of the city by building concrete towers over them, cities in the future will bring this nature back into their core. Taking the example of Murcia (Spain), the problem with pushing the orchards out of the city (and as a result, decreasing their area) has a direct impact on its economy, as its main source of income are both tourism and fruits and vegetables export to the rest of the world. Encouraging the growth of orchards into the city through a new typology is how I envision Murcia’s future. Alba Building in Murcia (Spain) represents the construction boom Spain suffered from in the 60’s. Big max 90 m2 social housing, bad planning and the usage of cheap materials quickly transformed Spanish cities. Instead of demolishment of 60’s kind of buildings throughout Spain, this project looks to work with the existing structures. The reason why keeping the existing buildings is because of the memory neighbours have of them in their minds. The Building will change in the future. Improvement in ventilation and energy harvesting and recycling will be key innovations. Occupation of the buildings will also change in the future.The vision this proposal has of the future is the gathering of different age groups within buildings, living in a more social way, kids will sleep close to their friends and older people will share coffe in their earlier mornings. The division of the building looks to make it up to the inhabitants how they want to live in it. Main innovations for Alba building (also to be adapted and extended to similar 60’s buildings throughout southern Spain): - Ventilation through vertical courtyards and under floor systems. This will replace air conditioning in the future. - Spaces such as kitchens, bedrooms and toilets to be flexible separate structures to change the flat layout depending on daily usage. - Solar chimneys for smell smoke and heat extraction - Inwards balconies and stepped terraces - Addition of interior greenery to grow own food - Façade new structure for garden/orchards invasion

Main characteristics of the House of the Future 2039-2050: + To be environmentally friendly, using renewable energies such as solar and wind power + To be flexible in its layout, with the possibility to change its everyday use + To be addaptable to the needs of its inhabitants + To preserve important memories created arround the property + To create a home out of a house

Innovation for Living Brief 1. “The House of the Future” Case study: Murcia Bringing orchards back to the city “The House of Lights”

Climate in Murcia Murcia has a hot subtropical semi-arid climate with Mediterranean influences with mild winters and hot summers

It averages more than 300 days of sun per year. Occasionally, Murcia has heavy rains where the precipitation for the entire year will fall over the course of a few days. In the coldest month, January, the average temperature range is a high of 16 째C during the day and a low of 4 째C at night. In the warmest month, August, the range goes from at least 33 째C during the day and to 20 째C at night. Murcia holds temperature records close to the highest recorded in southern Europe since reliable meteorological records commenced in 1950

Where does Murcia make its proffit? Economically, Murcia predominantly acts as a centre for agriculture and tourism. It is common to find Murcia’s tomatoes and lettuce, and especially lemons and oranges, in European supermarkets. During the 2000s, the economy of the region turned towards “residential tourism” in which people from northern European countries have a second home in the area. Europeans and Americans are able to learn Spanish in the academies in the town center. The economy of Murcia is supported by fairs and congresses, museums, theatres, cinema, music, aquariums, bullfighting, restaurants, hotels, camping, sports, foreign students, and tourism.

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Traditional house in Murcia Lack of ventilation, lack of living space and lack of sun light, but it has a lot of storage for goods and food, and life was done outside the home so the lack of internal living space was justified by the extense garden/orchard space surrounding the house.

Culture: El Bando de la Huerta A celebration that is part of the Spring Fiestas in Murcia, and allows you to enjoy the typical customs and traditions of this fruit and vegetable growing region. The “Bando de la Huerta” celebration comes on the first Tuesday after Easter, coinciding with the most important day of the Spring Fiestas. It consists of a parade of oxen-drawn carriages and booths from which the participants, known as “huertanos”, throw food at the spectators. After the floral offering to the Virgen de la Fuensanta, the parade begins through the streets of the city, accompanied by local folk groups and associations.

Past envisioning the future Inspiration for the design Walt Disney and his EPCOT: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow

The initial idea of Disneyland was to shape a project that consisted of various elements that would fit inside what he thought is a city of the future would be: community housing, airport, industrial park, etc, all designed with the most technologically advanced in those years. The original plan had a capacity to accommodate 20,000 inhabitants and was viewed as a bank of tests for the planification of the city and its arrangement. The circular and concentric design around the shopping and business area, with service areas (schools, community buildings) and the residential neighborhoods around the perimeter. Transport systems were very similar to what we find today in any modern city with concerns about saving energy: a system of trams and APM systems (automated people mover), while parking systems and automobilist ways remain underground so the surface was completely pedestrian. It envisioned a housing system based on rental to low prices rather than purchase.

The Future 2030-2050 Expansion of Murcia in History Idea of the Future: Looking at success in the past and addapting it to the present needs

Looking at the past of a city is the best way to imagina its future. In tha case of Murcia, as shown in the maps below, there was a major expansion of its urban area throughout the years, specially in the famous 1960’s and 1970’s construction boom that Spain and other south European cities whent through

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Identifying problems in the present Murcia and its Urbanization Introducing “Alba Building” and proposing a new typology of living for the future, using existing less apealing buildings.

Why keeping a building and refurbishing it to high standards when it would be more economical to demolish and start a new construction? In the future, population will keep growing and no space will be a problem in cities, expanding more and more to the outskirts, leaving the older buildings unattended architecturally. This lack of space will make it difficult for people to move out of a whole building and wait for the new one to be raised from nothing. A lot of time will be saved if the exisiting buildings metamorphose into the new building little by little, flat by flat so that only a few families check out of the building every time there is construction process. Another reason for not demilishing the older buildings is because of the memories people have involving the city and its buildings. No matter how unappealing the building is to the eye, people will somehow defend its existence. The Alba building has been chosen for its importance in the city, being one of the first buildings to erect from the rapid urban growth during the 60’s and more importantly, being one of the tallest buildings built in the city. There is a different perception of these kind of buildings, depending on the age of the individual, tending to a more optimistic reaction to the building by the older generations and a great rejection by the younger ones. Still, even when asked, people show a more intriguing reaction to the idea of bettering the already existing structures than their demolishing for a new construction to replace them.

People’s opinion

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ROSA 50+ It’s very big, very functional and too ugly to be in such a central location. It would have been a great corner for something beautiful to have been built to make people in Murcia proud, but the result was horrible.

JOSE 70+ Great building, I remember when it was under construction, great building

CLARA 25+

SOLE 25+ Legendary building in Murcia. one of the oldest, very recognizable. I like it not because of its look but because the affection i have towards it. LAURA 30+

MIGUEL 40+

RIVES 50+

IT’S OVERWHELMING

It’s a honeycomb, over 12 floors and I don’t know how many staircases. Obsolete, it needs a good refurbishment both inside and outside. So far only the entrance doors have been changed. In any case, all buildings surrounding it are in very similar conditions.

They should blow it up

An urban concentration

CASTO 25+ IT’S UGLY, A BIG MASS. NOT HARMONIOUS AT ALL

MARIA 50+

It’s like an ant’s nest

For these reasons and for the added pollution and waste materials that the demolition and new construction would increase, the decision is to regenerate the city and not rebuild it. The typology expansion will beggin at Murcia’s heart and transmit its innovations gradually through the southern Spain sub-tropical climate.

A Promenade through the Construction Disastre in Murcia during 1960’s / 70’s Concentration of Building style in “Diez de Revenga”

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Case study: The 60’s Building Alba A promis of futuristic living. Grand and impressive. During the 60’s Spain went through a boom of construction. People wanted big buildings, the higher the better, not looking at the stetics of it but at the number of flats that could be included vertically. Murcia suffered this boom in areas such as Ronda Norte, which expanded into the orchards and gardens. This caused an invasion of concrete mass which is the result of most of today’s Murcia centre.

Alba building just built 1969

Alba building Today

Space Needed: Building Alba was finished in 1969 and its 15 floors are clear example of the 60’s construction boom.

Even though balconies are constructed within the building, people prefer to close them and make them part of their living room instead.

Common Problems in residential buildings in Murcia city centre

Problems

The house of the future will adapt to the inhabitants needs by easily changing its layout organization (not only furniture but also separate elements structures such as the kitchen). Because of the population growth, families will it is likely that in the future, families living in cities will call home a flat in a higher building, for this reason, all commodities from a detached traditional house will have to be adopted in these buildings. The flats will be self sufficient in terms of energy harvesting and ventilation, using and reusing the energy produced within the space, and nature will play an important role in the household every day life, being used for shading, cooling and growing fruits and vegetables to feed the inhabitants. In the urban scale, after years of pushing the nature out of the city by building concrete towers over them, cities in the future will bring this nature back into their core. Taking the example of Murcia (Spain), the problem with pushing the orchards out of the city (and as a result, decreasing their area) has a direct impact on its economy, as its main source of income are both tourism and fruits and vegetables export to the rest of the world. Encouraging the growth of orchards into the city through a new typology is how I envision Murcia’s future.

Hig tempertures and Abuse of air conditioning Water shortage Lack of space as families grow Lack of open-air area in properties Lack of green areas Lack of community feeling

Possible solutions Ventilation improvement through vertical courtyards Including vegetation iside properties to lower and freshen the air temperature Communal gardens at rooftops and facades to promote orchard back into the city Vertical gardens for families to grow their own fruits/vegetables Solar and Eolic energy installed as well as watter collection system

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Alba Building in Murcia (Spain) represents the construction boom Spain suffered from in the 60’s. Big max 90 m2 social housing, bad planning and the usage of cheap materials quickly transformed Spanish cities.

Abuse of air conditioning in spanish cities is a comon problem

Air conditioning causes runny nose, watery eyes and sore throat when abused

Bacteria Legionella can be reproduced in air consitioning units and transmitted to humans

Ventilation through vertical courtyards as a solution to the ongoing problem of air conditioning abuse in southern Europe Researching into Islamic Architecture to understand their Natural Ventiilation and Cooling techniques and apply them to the House of the Future proposal in Murcia

Some techniques used in Islamic Architecture history, show the grade of perfectioning achieved. Particularly representative of these are the openings, the use of water for its evaporation and the use of wind and the air currents for the spaces cooling. The windows or openings are complex elements, composed by several parts, each of which has a defined role. The incidence of direct solar radiation is avoided by eaves or walls openwork shade elements. Sometimes ceramic pots filled with water are used for the wind, that when absorving the wet surfaces, it penetrates the walls cooling the space. Small openings in the upper part of the premises are used for the passage of the warm air stratified near the ceiling. Very often water features and channels are used both outside and inside the premises. Through these canals the constant water flow will help for the cooling through its evaporation.

One of the most striking findings of the traditional Islamic architecture is the invention of the so-called wind towers, these constructions made with stonework and large masses in the interior have several channels that lead to air captured in ascending or descending according to the time of the day. These masses, heated during the day by the action of solar radiation, transmitted that heat to the air passages in their content. This air rises by the passage based chimney effect to evacuate to the outside. The vacuum that leaves the air evacuated is occupied by cooler air from patios or basements, sweeping in their move to the different environments. Late in the evening, the process is reversed and the more cold air descends by the night cooling ducts to the mass of masonry that shapes them. This ensures that the interior of the house or building is wiping or occupied by the fresh air more available. The catchment devices of the wind, designed to ensure natural ventilation to the interior of the spaces, are detected not only in homes but in different types of buildings and in different social scales. Sometimes, these devices make up particular urban images when they are located in such a way that avoids produce shadows of winds on the neighboring buildings. The wind catchment devices, designed to ensure natural ventilation to the interior of the spaces, are found not only in homes but in different types of buildings and in different social scales. Sometimes, these devices make up particular urban images when they are located in such a way that avoids shadows of winds on the neighboring buildings. There are occasions in which the towers are separated from the buildings they serve, by communicating on the same through tunnels buried, that to receive moisture gardens watered, cool the air freshening grasped by evaporative.

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Natural Ventilation. Cross Ventilation Through Vertical Courtyards Wind-induced ventilation uses pressures generated on the building by the wind, to drive air through openings in the building. It is most commonly realised as cross-ventilation, where air enters on one side of the building, and leaves on the opposite side, but can also drive single sided ventilation, and vertical ventilation flows. When wind meets an obstruction such as a building, it is deflected and due to its momentum this creates positive and negative pressures over the surface of the building. The pressure distribution map is complicated and non-uniform, even over an individual surface, but is generally positive on the windward side, and negative over the roof and leeward side. Ventilation air will flow between any two points on the envelope at a different pressure provided there is an opening in the envelope at that point.

the flow rate is dependent on the pressure difference (generated by wind) and the flow resistance of the openings, which itself is dependent primarily on the opening area. The simpler approach is to use a rule of thumb, which relates the total openable area to the area of floor over which ventilation is to be provided.

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Proposed Solar chimney ‘soaking’ warm air out of the building more effectively

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Construction in the 60’s and 70’s showing Alba Building as a case study The damaging construction boom in the 60’s and 70’s in Spain was caracterised by a recognizable long corridor at the flats entrance having at its sides the small bedroom, tight Bathroom (for a crowded house) and kitchen doors. At its end another door will take people to a more spacious but still tight living/dining room.

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Innovation research to be addapted and included in the Design

The important characteristics for the House of the Future in are both, environmentally friendly by using renewable energy property, and innovative in its desgn, allowing for the spaces to the user instead of the inhabitant to have to addapt to

Wall that opens inwards becoming an interior balcony

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The Ecooler awakens all of our senses â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with the sound of filling water, the refreshing scent of moist clay, the moist, cool feel of its surface and the appearance of accumulating drops â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all these contribute to a sense of refreshing coolness and awaken natural, primeval sensations.

Parabolic dish concentrators shell type receivers with a reflective area of 9.2 sqm Reflects sunlight on receivers by white glass pieces Steam is collected in header pipes via insulated pipes to cooking vessels in kitchen

Emilio Perez Piñero’s Foldable Structure Design Inspiration, to be addapted and included in the final design

Emilio Perez Piñero, a spanish architect from Murcia, invented a kind of foldable structure which could be easily transported and built. A folding structure will stand at the top of the tower controlling the ventilation and shading of the vertical courtyard This structure will study Emilio Perez Piñero’s folding structure as well as new ways of achieving asimetrical movements depending on the season and time of day The geometrical steel structure will be coveres by a traslucent elastic fabric to easily addapt to the different positions

This structure will inspire the design to change throughout the day, having the flexibility to open or close dependin the levels of humidity and temperature. Located over the courtyards this a similar mechanism will move asimetrically to provide shade and shelter to the open spaces below

Old pictures and drawings of Emilio Perez Piñero’s folding structure

A new Typology in spain’s 60’s and 70’s Construction Boom Buildings

A mixture of vegetation growing inside of the building as well as invading its facades This highly ventilated prototype will not require air conditioning thanks to the vertical courtyards piercing it Bringing Vegetation back to the city. Plants crawling the building facades and invading homes to supply them with home grown fruits and vegetables

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ALB A E DIF IC IO

We want to create our own business

We want to move here our own ofice

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I need more money Available space to Rent

I have SPARE ROOMS

I grew some vegetables

Do you want to buy?

I grew some fruits

Do you want to buy?

This flat must now be sold

We want to expand our family

Material Research Experimenting with cement, glass wax and reinforcements at different percentages

Building a Reinforced Concrete Structure Simulating the already exisiting concrete slab to be cut into and replaced by the new translucent and reinforced glass pannels

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Modular Wall The wall is designed to rotate (around water pipes) to open or close allowing for ventilation increase and at the same time creating horizontal surfaces to be used as possible furniture. The bimetal sheets on the wallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exterior surface curl when heated by the sun, allowing air through its porous composition. At night or when shadowed, and therefor a cooler atmosphere, the bimetal streightens fully covering the wall, stopping this way air travelling through into the property. A set of air pressure fans will be installed in the interior side of the wall.

Exterior of modular wall during day time

Interior of modular wall during night time

Facade Module

Facade Innovation. Consisiting in a modular soft porous Timber wall which allows for external air to go through to the internal space. This modular wall is covered by Bimetal sheets which curl when heated up. This intelligent facade will improve the inner space temperature through ventilation throughout hottest hours of the day. When the sun heats the bimetal sheets (coinciding with the hottest hours of the Murcian summer day) they corl, allowing for the air to go through the main porous wall into the space. A first layer of vegetation will have provided this incoming air with a higher level of humidity, cooling this way the internal space.

Bimetal curling brass coloured sheets

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double layered translucent latex doors for noise and temperature insulation

incoming air Water pipes allowing for wooden modules to rotate Slim widthed Glass blocked pannels for increase of light inside the building

Vegetation

Under-floor Ventilation for cooling

As the air warms up, it rises and exits the space through the various courtyard extraction windows and vertically drawn out of the builting. The cool air travels through the glass floor pannels thanks to the carved circular cavities in it.

Cold air entering the building through the floor, between the concrete slab and the rised final glass floor.

Front Facade Walkways as hanging gardens and modular/bi-metal wall

Cool air from the outside coming into the space and lifting up the warm air making it exit the room

Under-floor Ventilation and higher double floor system

A hatch door on every floor allowing for possible vertical extension of the property by renting/buying the below neighbourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s property

Tree-shaped new structures allowing for shelving space as well as a wheel mooving kitchen structure covered by a chimney hood to collect the smoke produced through a solar chimney flue. The flexibility of the moving structures in side the house allows for freedom of usage of the house by the inhabitants. The concrete ceiling is carved and replaced by glass wax and concrete tiles allowing for light to go through from floor to floor, making it easier for the vegetation to grow inside the property.

An opening on floor and ceiling in the same possition at every floor allows for the service pipes to go through and divide among. Vegetation growing arond these pipes will reduce the noise produced in each floor as well as creating fresh humidity in the properties Floor ventilation to be created by the lifting of a seconf floor creating a void between the concrete slab and the carved glass flooring above, stimulating the air circulation.

Kitchen Module A moving kitchen

Kitchen Module

Reflects sunlight on receivers by white glass pieces Steam is collected in header pipes via insulated pipes to cooking vessels in kitchen

Water converter Turbine

Water pipes towards the flats

Water coming in

Parabolic dish concentrator

Chimney Flue

Timber bespoke doors with double acting hinges to enclose space

Chimney Aluminium Hood

Hanging cooking devices using heat collected throughout the day by the parabollic heat catchers

Fridge Sink using water collected from the wind humidity turbine

Main Timber Structure

Non structural beams for cutlery and kitchenware Stirage Secondary tensile structure

Timber bespoke doors with double acting hinges to enclose space

8 x 2 x Wheels for Kitchen free movement

Smoke coming out

Cooking heat surced from the intense sun in Southern Spain

Water collected from humidity in the air

Bedroom Module

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house of the future will be an open space do that the user configure it to satisfy its daily needs. Another changing moving elemant included as an innovation in this proposal is bed unit.

Bedrooms are one of the essential spaces in a house, so for the user to have a take on its everyday usage, bedrooms will be compacted into moving walls that can collapse and open anywhere in the house interior or even exterior if the user so whish. This units will carry a wardrobe and some shelves for storage appart from the double bed itself. When not in use these spaces can be closed and stored along the property walls to create a larger living space to enjoy together.

Wardrobe Space

Brass Clothes Rail Upholstered timber wardrobe doors

Privacy/Structural Tension Cables

Sleeping space Timber Storage Shelves Pillow

Bed Matress

Bed Ribs

Bed Folding down Upholstered Timber door Wheels for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;compact bedroomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; movement

Folding Timber Bed legs for support

Aluminium poles for floor tracks movement

Balcony Iteration 1 the plans for Alba building are to transform the properties in houses of the future with mixed use, that is, not only living space, but also commercial, madical care, hose for the elderly, Activity spaces etc. The building will be extended towards de exterior through a system of balconies created between a new external beam structure and the existing facade. The design development for these balconies started with a triangulation system as a structural reinforcement, but when tested it was proved to be weaker than thought

Steel triangulated structural external frame

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Timber structural beam

Triangulation system cables in tension

Ballustrade at floor 9

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balcony at floor 9

Ballustrade at floor 9 balcony at floor 8

Balcony Iteration 2 Final Iteration After testing the first balcony iteration, it was understood that the structure was not as strong as needed so changes were made and a beam â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;sandwichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; was created slotting two timber structural beams at either side of a steel I beam. Reinforcement was added to the structure by tensile cables joining the beams and creating a facade

Timber structural beam

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Steel structural I beam

Timber structural beam

Floor 8

Triangulation system cables in tension

Ballustrade at floor 8

balcony at floor 8

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Section showing exterior balconies and beams shade canopy

TYPILAL SECTION ACROSS THE BUILDING SHOWING THE VERTICAL VOID

steel tubes treelike structure

Moving Bedroom unit open

House for the elderly section

Ballustrade made out of heatless light bulbs New steel staircase

Moving Kitchen unit moving Bath unit Electri, water and waste Water Services pipes

House for child care section

vegetation growing around services pipes

Vertical void Glass and concrete mixcture for transparency

Timber set of rings for columns steel tubes to be joined together

steel tubes inverted tree-like structure

Steel reinforcement betl for the concrete

Moving Bedroom unit closed Glass secondary floor Timber horizontal grid for void between floors Existing concrete floor Scale 1:50

External views of proposal

Building occupation to change in the future. The guildings will be arranged in a more free way so that its inhabitants decide where to be. Every family will have their own reserved space that can be closed at any time, but the idea is to have a very free open plan living in which elements (such as kitchens, beds and baths) will be able to move around the building. These elements will be moveable thanks to their wheels and tracks carved through the floors. The external structural beams for vegetation and additional balcony space will also have the function of vertical mobility of these elements

70% Living space 5% Medical care space/ Old People’s Home Humidity created by vegetation

5% Restaurant Space 5% Child care space 5% Buisness space 10% Activity space

Incoming air going through: - Vegetation - Porous timber modular wall when bimetal sheets are curled or when moduls are rotated And into the building

Green facade not just ‘green’ but it plays a major importance in the cooling of the inner spaces as well as increasing its humidity levels

Typology expansion

The proposal shows an expansion of the typology taking Alba building as a starting poing and ‘infecting its neighbouring buildings and the new converted buildings extending it to the buildings surrounding them. This way there is a a growing diametre of buildings of light with Alba at its centre

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Model photos showing part of a living module of the Building of the Future â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;House of Lightsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Lights and Shadows

Pictures showing floor translucency and tracks on floor for movement of elements

Some Innovations: Kitchen on wheels, Structural ctree-like columns and Bi-metal porous facade

Photographs showing light reflection on elements and light from upper floors going through ceiling â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;chrystalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Internal vertical courtyard with vegetation increasing humidity levels as well as covering services pipes such as water and electricity supplying each floor

Building Performance