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Port Terminal BCN – 361º
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NYMPHAEACEAE
NYMPHAEACEAE
Aquatic Energy Carrier System
DS1 2011/12
Seif El-Din Shawky / MAA 2012
Our purpose is to formulate a fragment of infrastructure, an input/output component that integrates into a supply-demand based adaptive mainframe, or the aptly named smart city. In this case of our studio’s agenda, my objective was specifically an energy-driven design with the starting point being a power source, animated by the potentials of salt as resource and out-at-sea deployment. It was always meant to produce more than it consumes, a culmination of conservation, filling in the gap in the urban operating system. Continuing that, the proposal revolves around the development of a prototypical unit, which moves across the aquatic territories of Barcelona, yet moves seemingly on its own. It’s propulsion is the wind, it’s battery is a salt-fresh chemical cataclysm, it’s generator a simple piezoelectric bimorph energy harvester, and it’s guide a control center at the Estany de cal Tet in Llobregat’s marshland. Working essentially on the parameters of wind speed, direction and a feedback inverse rotation mechanism, it is parametric in the sense that it is dynamically-oriented in both program and form. Nymphaeaceae acts on two levels; as a singular unit, and as a collective. It is not a notion of imposition, it is an environment that succumbs to its surroundings.
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‘Ode to Salt’ is a series of films with focus on remedying the Llobregat delta’s delicate eco-system and symbiotic relationship with the port of Barcelona through a milieu of reformative interventions. The title is inspired by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s poem ‘Ode to Salt’, and is derived from salt as a tangible yet ethereal and elastic medium through which the emergence of large urban structures out at sea may crystallize.
However, note the following film is a narrative-driven segment with an atmospheric quality. It is not meant as a concrete realisation of physicality but rather as a demonstration of the forces at play and the underlying potentials existing within the site.
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‘RS1 : Emergent Territories second phase studio workshop at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalunya’
iaacblog.com/maa2011-2012-emergentterritories/
Ode to Salt Series 3.2012
Ode to Salt Series 4.2012
Prototype Development : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZeRDMue4cY&feature=youtu.be
IaaC MAA_11-12 Emergent Territories
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Hyperbordered Port: Final Presentation
Cities as Barcelona were built based on generic data sources. However, the new design agenda goes hand by hand with the technologic evolution. The new urbanization processes requires to consider also new forms of dynamic organization, real time information, responsive and smart systems, and even legal and political evolution.
This is where the project main concern comes from: could the borders in the port be configured by the real time data generated by the city?
The borders define the space, the space makes the function possible. Following that logic, this project tries to generate a dynamic and reactive condition, where the form is no longer a barrier to the function, but an input to multi-functionality.
See the full presentation here.
Project Animation
This animation tries to show an initial schematic idea, broadly, about an architecture that is capable of evolve constantly in order to adapt itself to the different changes that its context generates. A project where the form is no longer a barrier to the function, but an input to multi-functionality.
Prototype Development
This is a short video showing a little about the developing process of the reactive prototypes for the Hyperbordered Port project. The main objective was to test and develop a simple mechanism, which was capable to receive certain inputs in order to obtain certain controlled responses. The final inputs and outputs are detailed on the presentation.
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Port I-filters
The project idea is to integrate an infrastructural system in the port area which can minimize the reach of harmful gases to the city and even convert them to fresh water and energy through special filters which will be implemented in the system. Developing an interactive model responding to changeable parameters and able to adopted to real time data feedback through two different mechanism.
Video link for animation and per-formative model:
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SALT 3.0
Ode to Salt Series 4.2012 from Xawki on Vimeo.
'Ode to Salt' is a series of films with focus on remedying the Llobregat delta's delicate eco-system and symbiotic relationship with the port of Barcelona through a milieu of reformative interventions. The title is inspired by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's poem 'Ode to Salt', and is derived from salt as a tangible yet ethereal and elastic medium through which the emergence of large urban structures out at sea may crystallize.
However, note the following film is a narrative-driven segment with an atmospheric quality. It is not meant as a concrete realisation of physicality but rather as a demonstration of the forces at play and the underlying potentials existing within the site.
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'DS1 : Emergent Territories second phase studio workshop at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalunya'
http://legacy.iaacblog.com/maa2011-2012-emergentterritories/
/ June 2012
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