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Reciprocity consuming: Prosume IAAC 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest Students: Jose Isidro Pastor Tormo + Marina Patón Ballester

RECIPROCITY designed by Jason Butz, Frank D’Andrea, Carla Landa, Martha Skinner from the United States which proposed the creation of recycling structures which recycle urban waste and capable of creating materials of high architectural design for urban reuse. Reciprocity rethinks the notion of local agriculture as the mobile farm. Constructed with recycled materials at the headwaters of a river, these sellh shape boat float downstream, docking at cities along the way to be harvested. When they reach the river's delta, they become temporary emergency housing in extreme weather conditions or the material is used to rebuild in that city. The project was created for an international competition where they won the third place winner in 2009. The IAAC 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY: Envisioning the habitat of the future. The aim of the competition was to promote online discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that helped envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like. Responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, socialization and globalization, with a view to enhancing the connected self-sufficiency of our cities. Starting by keywords we can highlight: •

WASTE FOOD

NATURAL CYCLE

SELF-SUFFICIENT

TEMPORAL INTERVENTIONS

RECIPROCITY

The human race is becoming increasingly wasteful with no regard to the limited resources our earth provides. Cities today work in a linear fashion. They consume resources and produce waste, which is then discarded; breaking the NATURAL CYCLE. This cycle must be reconnected. When addressed from an ecologically conscious standpoint, this problem becomes one best dealt with by a series of practical interventions on the human scale and as a community. Reciprocity strives to take what waste the inhabitants produce and use it in alternative ways before it is ultimately turned into a recyclable state. Even in its construction reciprocity uses and deals with waste. When construction of a unit is started, construction WASTE materials from landfills and excess construction materials are diverted to the construction site and utilized. As new HABIBTS form, DISPOSING of waste is no longer difficulty, instead it is a way of life. Just as the waste is used temporarily for some greater purpose, the CLUSTERS as a whole facilitate temporary resuscitators of a city in peril. Reciprocity is a dispatched in masses and the destruction becomes fuel while the pods serve as temporary displaced housing units. Once a city is cleaned, reciprocity moves on to the next.


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