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Environmental Performance Modelling and Visualization
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Designing with Passive Solar Gain
This assignment examines the design with Ecotect utilizing thermal and natural ventilation strategies for a small size fitness centre located in the city of Wellington, New Zealand.
Wellington is located next to Cook Strait, which forms a narrow gap between the mountain ranges of the North and South Islands of New Zealand resulting the wind accelerate between the mountains making Wellington a very windy city.
Summer sun is relatively intense comparing to cities in the northern hemisphere. Strategies to make uses and avoid the sun and wind effects becomes the primary focuses in this exerciese.
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Sound Skin – 5 person group work
This is our project for the Internet-0 seminar. Group members are : Mia Layco Goretti , Svetlana Nesterushkina, Ilaria La Manna, Veronica Lorenzo, Michail Fountouklis
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Operational Landscape: Mumbai "slum" Renovation
Urban scale and it´s complexities
TEAM: Moises Gamus, Michael Harrison. FACULTY: Luis Falcon, Hemant Purohit
Research on the reorganization of flows and forces that give shape to a city. Starting point: THE VOID (i.e. public space).
Finding optimal walking distances between main public spaces (250 mts), a network of movility and interaction mingles through the built environment, emulating the current urban tissue which is a result of self organization… Learning from self organization, understanding its simple rules and its emerging complexity.
Mumbai´s reality:
TOO dense and still growing.
Scarcity of resources: Water, energy and waste management; conflict in movility and lack of personal living space.
THE SITE: Saki-Naka / Asalfa
Site Analysis
SWOT Analysis
Insolation analysis and WindFlows
ZONING DIAGRAM. Based on urban densitiy and context (natural and urban)
ZONING DIAGRAM // DENSITY STUDIES
Program organization based on distance from metro station and topographic conditions.
Ecotect Analysis on Mumbai Port and Strategy for Capsule Hotel
Emil Burulyanov
Site Analysis & Strategy
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Analysis and Decisions
Internet 0
The final presentations of students in Internet 0 included prototypes which react according to movement, sound, vibration and light. Students presented their projects with a technical description of their system, its behavior and its architectural application. There have also been an On-Site demonstrations of their systems working. With Faculty Victor Viña and invited guest jury Oscar Tomico, interaction designer working at Technical University Eindhove - Oscar Tomico - students discussed the challenges and potentials of their projects.