RS 2 Self Sufficient Building

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iaac — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:44:28 +0000

URBAN VERTICAL FARM (structures & circulation concept)

iaac — Thu, 12 May 2011 04:21:07 +0000

Vertical and horizontal flow of people

iaac — Wed, 11 May 2011 08:09:49 +0000

As we can see in the image, the main circulation occurs through the main plaza at the interior of the block, some other spaces that are more private such as housing and the IaaC Laboratory or other ones more public like the indoor sport activities area that can be accesed through an existent comercial area. Having this entrances on this positions its more easy to integrate the existent buildings with the new one and at the same time creating a good flow of people inside the block.

//structure diagram

iaac — Thu, 05 May 2011 14:38:15 +0000

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iaac — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:14:59 +0000

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iaac — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:12:01 +0000

RS2 structural concept

iaac — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:10:39 +0000

here are some pictures of the structural approach, this is a 1:500 working model to understand the properties and the spatial proportion of the structure

iaac — Wed, 04 May 2011 19:32:43 +0000

RS2: Selfsufficient Building Studio 3rd Term

iaac — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:18:12 +0000

Selfsufficient Block.

The main purpouse of this project is to join the existing buildings with the new structure above the block, this new layer is a link between the buildings that already exist and the new ones, giving a new meaning to the entire block.

This connection is given by several aspects such as:

The structure is penetrating into the existing buildings so its injecting light to the most of the buildings, also this “holes” serve as rain water collectors that at the same time are connected to the inverted gardens in order to purify the water, once the water is purified it goes again into the network for its re-use.

A lot of leisure and cultural activities are being performed into the “Interspaces” created between the two layers, so the roofs of the existing buildings are now being used for this type of activities.

Open publication

City landscape

iaac — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:06:39 +0000

The goal of the project is to create self-sufficient block as a part of a new system of city terrain. The new element which creates the new landscape –thick layer containing all communications, supply systems, electricity generation from biomass and recycling. This layer is growing up by housing, flakes of solar photovoltaic panels, landscape gardening and down with light courtyards for public spaces, transportation system, storages. Main sources of getting energy are biomass recycling and solar panels.