SELF SUFFICIENCY RESEARCH AGENDA by Christophe Girot

IAAC INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE OF CATALONIA

SELF SUFFICIENCY RESEARCH AGENDA MAITE BRAVO, IAAC MASTER PROGRAM FACULTY.

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AGENDA

1. SELF SUFFICIENCY AGENDA 2. STUDENT PROJECTS 3. IAAC YEARLY CONTEST

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IAAC SELF-SUFFICIENCY AGENDA

The Self-Sufficiency Agenda establishes the responsibility for confronting the process of global urbanization from multi-scalar operations and through prototypes that promote environmental, economic and social sustainability. In the early 20th century, the concept of `dwellingÂ´ was defined a `machine for livingÂ´, a reference to a new way of understanding the construction of inhabitable spaces that characterized the Machine Age. Today, a century later, we face the challenge of constructing sustainable or even self-sufficient prototypes; living organisms that interact and interchange resources with their environment, and which function as entirely self-sufficient entities, like trees in a field. In this way, each action on the territory implies a manipulation of multiple environmental forces, connected to numerous flows and networks such as energy, transport, logistics and information, generating new inhabitable and responsive nodes with the potential to use and produce resources. Territorial and urban strategies and building operations must therefore be coordinated processes that extend architectural knowledge to new forms of management and planning, in which a multi-scalar thinking also entails an understanding of shifting dynamics, energy and information transmission and continuous adaptation. Architecture is always facing the responsibility of responding to emergent needs, technologies and even changing programmes. We must ask more of architecture: we, as architects should be required to design inhabitable organisms that are capable of developing functions and integrating the processes of the natural world that formerly took place at a distance, at other points in the surrounding territory. The models created for the metropolis of the last century are unable to accommodate new developments linked to contemporary urban lifestyles, which are more and more discontinuous in space and time. The building-over of the global landscape requires us to project at the same time the full and the empty, the natural and the artificial, in such a way as to make economic impetus compatible with sustainable development. It is necessary to generate complex knowledge with a multilayered reading of realities that traditionally have been thought of as separate, such as energy manipulation, nature, urban mobility, dwelling, systems of production and fabrication, the development of software and information networks, etc. This will allow the possibility for new prototypes, capable of engaging with complex and changing environments. Finally, every new urban or architectural production needs to update its materiality and reinterpret centuries-old construction techniques, which are very directly based on the transformation of locally available materials. It is now time for interaction between disciplines and technologies with a vision that embraces different fields of research.

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IS IT POSSIBLE NOT ONLY TO PROTECT THE PLANET FROM THE DEGRADATION CAUSED OUR CITIES AT PRESENT, BUT FOR THE CITIES OF THE FUTURE TO BECOME THE MEDIUM WHICH CULTIVATES OUR SOILS? Friday, March 1, 13

CAN WE CONCEIVE CITIES THROUGH 'PLANNING' AND YET RETAIN INDETERMINACY? 18

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MIGHT OUR CITY MODEL BE RESPONSIVE TO OUR BEHAVIORAL CHANGES OVER TIME AND SIMULTANEOUSLY TO THE BETTERMENT OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT? Friday, March 1, 13

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2. STUDENT PROJECTS

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Eco_breath Team: Berardo Matalucci, Fabiano Spano, Lilieth Apancio, Walle Phiriyaphongsak, Vasileios Ntovros.

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Wat_ergy How to produce energy from the sea? characterized by a more natural landscape movement. In order to plan the housing for 10.000 people, to join the green area of Montjuic with the gray industrial area of the Port of Barcelona. Analyzing 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. A nanotechnological element to bring the water from the sea, to desalinate it and than to produce energy. This microscopic element is called \\\\"carbon nanotube\\\\". 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 MĂźller

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SELF-SUFFICIENCY AGENDAâ&#x20AC;Ś(cont)

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BESOS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; By Giannakopoulous Sofoklis, Niccolo Marini, Georgios Soutos, Gyorgy Bukosdi, Levidis Stefanos. Situated on the edge of the Ronda del Litoral highway, on the banks of the Besos river and confined within the stretch of land that separates Barcelona from Badalona, the site acts as both a border and a link between the two. The Besos river reaches the site already heavily polluted with residue from nearby agriculture, industry, mobility and domestic use. The air quality is low due to CO1 and CO2 emissions from the highway and the industries surrounding the site. Most of the activities and qualities that characterize the site are manifested as flows: matter, products, energy, people and water. The site is an interstitial ecosystem of flows, an ecosystem at a state of pause that needs to be calibrated and relayered in order to perform again. The project seeks to rearrange these flows by using the river and the landscape that drives it as the base and starting point of the intervention, the design proposes a landscape that responds and adjusts to real-time pollution data. A series of tools/devices are designed in order to rearrange the landscape and purify the air and water through the help of specific plants. The river is un-canalized and redirected in meanders, lowering the speed of the waters and creating wetlands that treat the water in the way. The highway splitS in a similar way to the river, in order to better serve the uses of the site and reduce the harmful emissions. Crossing paths for pedestrians and cyclists are introduced in the new natural landscape to invite the residents and the people working in the vicinity to use the area as a park. A network of sensors that measure the pollution and direct the landscape are installed on the site. As more sensors and devices are introduced over the years the landscape becomes more responsive and adapts dynamically to battle the pollution and accommodate the ever-shifting uses that occur in it.

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3. IAAC YEARLY CONTEST

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ecosystems injections Hybrids network on negotiating ecosystems international self-sufficient housing contest, IaaC first prize

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3ELF 5RB A FE

3ELF 5RB FOCUS ON THE POSSIBILITY OF BUILDING EXTENSIVELY OVER WATER TACKLING THE CURRENT ISSUE OF THE RAISING SEA LEVEL IN AN ENVIRONMENTAL MANNER )T CREATES A @mOATING CITY 3ELF 5RB DElNES A INTERDEPENDENT SYSTEM THAT INTERTWINES THE URBAN CONTEXT WITH THE DESIGN OF THE SELF SUSTAINABLE PREFAB DWELLINGS 3ELF 5RB USES COMPUTER ALGORITHMS TO DElNE A GLOBAL STRATEGY THAT GOES FROM PREDICTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE URBAN PLANNING TO MAXIMIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE PLAN TO DESIGNING ASSEMBLING AND PLACING THE DWELLINGS 5RBAN &LEXIBILITY 4HIS PROPOSAL AIMS TO EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL OF WATER SURFACES FOR mEXIBLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT 4HE PROJECT CONSISTS OF A PIER LANDSCAPE CONNECTED TO THE MAIN LAND AND ACCESSIBLE BOTH BY CAR AND BY BOAT 4HE PIER NETWORK IS SUPPORT FOR THE PREFABRICATED HOUSING MODULES WHICH ARE PLUGGED INTO THE CONNECTION POINTS 4HE WATER ALLOWS FOR THE EASY TRANSPORTATION AND THE MOBILITY OF THE mOATING HOUSING UNITS 4HIS MEANS THAT IN TIME UNITS CAN BE RELOCATED CHANGING THE CONlGURATION AND DENSITY OF THE PLAN !LSO PROGRAM SUCH AS PARKING RETAIL PUBLIC AREAS ETC CAN BE ADDED OR REMOVED ACCORDING TO THE NEEDS OF EACH NEIGHBOURHOOD 4HIS PROGRAM CAN BE PLACED IN mOATING UNIT SIMILAR TO THE HOUSING UNITS

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0ARAMETRIC $ESIGN 4HE PIER NETWORK IS GENERATED BY A COMPUTER SCRIPT ASSURING THE CIRCULATION OF THE mOATING TRAFlC IN PRESENT AND FUTURE THIS IS IMPORTANT IN ORDER TO PLACE AND REMOVE THE PREFABRICATED UNITS "ECAUSE OF THIS PARAMETRIC APPROACH WHICH DElNES THE BASIC RULES OF DEVELOPMENT GROWTH BECOMES mEXIBLE IT CAN OCCUR IN DIFFERENT TIMES AND PACES DEVELOPED BY DIFFERENT PARTIES AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS 4HIS ADAPTABILITY MAKES THE mOATING CITY MORE SUSTAINABLE THEN AVERAGE SEDENTARY CITIES SINCE IT CAN IN DECREASE AS WELL AS RECYCLE ITS PROGRAM 3USTAINABILITY 4HE SUSTAINABILITY OF THIS PLAN IS BASED ON TWO INTERRELATED SYSTEMS IT COMBINES SELF SUFlCIENT HOUSES AND A NETWORK OF SERVICE TOWERS WHICH BACK UP THE VITAL FUNCTIONS OF THE DWELLINGS FOR EXAMPLE PRODUCING DRINKABLE WATER 4HE DECENTRALIZED SUPPLY TOWERS WORK INDEPENDENTLY COVERING A CERTAIN URBAN PERIMETER )N CASE THERE IS A SHORTAGE OR EXCESS OF ENERGY OR WATER PRODUCTION THEY CAN EXCHANGE SUPPLIES USING THE PIER AS SUPPORT FOR THE CONNECTING INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED THIS EXCHANGE IS MONITORED BY A COMPUTER SYSTEM

$WELLING UNITS %ACH mOATING HOUSE CONSISTS OF TWO MAIN ELEMENTS THE CONCRETE BASIN AND THE HOUSING UNIT 4HE NUMBER OF M ON TOP OF THE BASIN IS DElNED BY THE !RCHIMEDES PRINCIPLE WEIGHT OF THE HOUSING UNIT THE WEIGHT OF THE VOLUME OF THE REPLACED WATER 4HE CONCRETE BASIN IS PREFABRICATED AS A WHOLE AND MOST OF THE TECHNICAL NEEDS ARE LOCATED IN HERE 4HE HOUSING UNIT IS MADE OF PREFABRICATED ELEMENTS X M FACADES PLACED ON A THREE DIMENSIONAL GRID OF X X M 4HE CLIENT DElNES THE VOLUME OF HIS HER HOUSE BASED ON THIS GRID WITH THE HELP OR THE COMPUTER 4HE FACADES ARE COMPOSED OF ELEMENTS THAT HELP MAXIMIZING THE PRODUCTION AND MINIMIZING THE CONSUMPTION OF ENERGY 4HESE ELEMENTS ARE SOLAR PANELS VENTILATION GLASS AND WOOD 4HE FACADES ARE GENERATED BY A COMPUTER ALGORITHM THAT DElNES THE PERCENTAGE

AND THE LOCATION OF EACH OF THESE ELEMENT IN ACCORDANCE TO THE EXPECTED PERFORMANCE AND LOCATION OF EACH FACADE &INALLY )T IS UP TO THE CLIENT TO DECIDE THE LEVEL OF ENGAGEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTIVE PROCESS THE HOUSE CAN BE DELIVERED COMPLETELY lNISHED OR AS A SET OF BUILDING ELEMENTS DELIVERED BY BOAT AND ASSEMBLED ON THE SPOT

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3ELECTION OF COMPUTER GENERATED POSSIBLE FACADES BUILD UP OF DIFFERENT PERCENTAGES OF ELEMENTS

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0IER # SHOWING THE NETWORK OF SERVICE TOWERS

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LIVING LANDSCAPES

RUNNER-UP

MOBILIZING VILLAGE Trung Kien Do dtk_kts@yahoo.com

URBAN GREEN

Vietnam

BIO INFRASTRUCTURES

The idea is how to create a cheap floating community in which it is self-supported and its “cell” can be mobilized and adapt easily with new environment, new location or new timeline. It also can allow other components to join in and out to create more functions of living. By setting up a hexagonal grid, that will allow adaptation and multiple of housing. Individual house can be joined easily with the other ones to create a “mobilizing community”, on one hand; this community is really suitable with nomadic living culture of local fishermen. On the other hand, grouping together can provide more space for food productivity, social activities or playground for children as well. Each module can be designed as a house, a farm, a pond even a library, a school or a clinic. The mobilized school can “feed” all needed and give them a flexible time to attend that only way to attract children. Similarly, community centre or medical care can be transferred from one community to other and provides occupants all essences they need. The form of the house is similar to a carving rock, inspired from natural islands on the bay that makes the village very integrated and distinctive. The cone shape is twisted by a diagonal structure to make the house really resistant with severe weather

ENERGY SYSTEMS PARAMETRIC URBANISM SOCIAL & COLLABORATIVE

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THEORIES & STRATEGIES

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VING LANDSCAPES

WINNER

WATER FUEL THE PLAN FOR A SELFSUSTAINING NEW YORK Rychiee Espinosa Seth McDowell

URBAN GREEN

rychiee@gmail.com

United States

PARAMETRIC URBANISM SOCIAL & COLLABORATIVE

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THEORIES & STRATEGIES

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ENERGY SYSTEMS

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ENERGY-GENERATION AND RECREATION COMBINE TO FORM A NEW LANDSCAPE. Each unit within the fueling mat contains an electrolyzer which requires power collected by wave energy-harvesting components. In turn, these electrolyzers are then capable of generating fire and heat from water extracted from the river. A sectional perspective describes this system as a heated beach, which extends its seasonal use beyond the summertime into the winter. On the water, a new type of public space is rendered: the images of the fueling mat illustrate a type of environment that emerges from this new transportation network. Also reliant on fuel, are secondary spaces which contain barbeque pits and heated baths as a means to generate further personal connections with the waterhydrogen technology. Emerging from the infrastructural demands for fuel is a new recreational landscape for Manhattan.

BIO INFRASTRUCTURES

For the last 10 years hundreds of engineers, inventors, and scientists have been investigating the possibility of using water for fuel by means of electrolysis. It was not until recently when John Kanzius, a retired engineer, discovered an efficient method of burning saltwater with radio frequencies that commercial interests in the method began to rise. This prospect of running oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car on water stimulates a plethora of questions about economy, distribution, dependence, and the commoditization of the natural resource. A new transportation network which depends on this new fueling system gathers the energy required for electrolysis through the use energy-harvesting mats, situated on the edge of the island on the water. The location and proximity of these mats to other means of transportation allows for an easier East-West commute across New York City. Thus, a more efficient commute is created and the air is kept clean as the exhaust created by water fuel is simply water itself. As a result,

G LANDSCAPES

URBAN GREEN

BIO INFRASTRUCTURES

ENERGY SYSTEMS

PARAMETRIC URBANISM SOCIAL & COLLABORATIVE

THEORIES & STRATEGIE

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MOBILIZING VILLAGE Trung Kien Do

A floating city off the coast of Vietnam, with forms that abstract the surrounding landscapes, approaching the question ¨Is it possible to rise above sea level?¨, and its effect on coastal cities.

LIVING LANDSCAPES

RUNNER-UP

dtk_kts@yahoo.com

ENERGY SYSTEMS PARAMETRIC URBANISM SOCIAL & COLLABORATIVE THEORIES & STRATEGIES

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BIO INFRASTRUCTURES

URBAN GREEN

Vietnam

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LIVING LANDSCAPES

RUNNER-UP

RECIPROCITY Jason Butz Carla Landa Francis D'Andrea Martha Skinner

URBAN GREEN

jbutz@clemson.edu

United States

ENERGY SYSTEMS

the waste is used temporarily for some greater purpose, the clusters as a whole facilitate temporary resuscitators of a city in peril. Imagine a waterfront city ravaged by a storm. Reciprocity is dispatched in masses and the destruction becomes fuel while the pods serve as temporary displaced housing units. A symbiotic relationship is created and a flexible network begins to bridge the gaps in the cycles we helped to break.

BIO INFRASTRUCTURES

Envisioned as a selfsustaining community Reciprocity can either serve as the foundation for a new city, or as an intervention in current cities. Reciprocity intends to take what waste its inhabitants produce and use it in alternative ways before it is ultimately turned into a recyclable state. Waste that would otherwise be diverted to landfills is used to construct each pod. As new habits form disposing of waste is no longer a hassle, instead it is a way of life. Just as

PARAMETRIC URBANISM SOCIAL & COLLABORATIVE THEORIES & STRATEGIE

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LIVING LANDSCAPES

URBAN GREEN

BIO INFRASTRUCTURES

ENERGY SYSTEMS

PARAMETRIC URBANISM SOCIAL & COLLABORATIVE

THEORIES & STRATEGIE

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