Tuesday 7 May 2013
Conversing with water has featured on some more publications
Conversing with water has featured on some more publications
http://www.designdaily.us/2013/03/environmental-conference-center-for.html
Wednesday 6 March 2013
'Conversing with water' is now on Evolo online magazine.
'Conversing with water' is now on Evolo online magazine.
http://www.evolo.us/architecture/environmental-conference-center-for-latin-america-as-an-urban-flooding-prevention-system-l-u-d-studio/
Monday 25 February 2013
Tuesday 5 February 2013
Monday 3 December 2012
On-going research // Conversing with Water // UN environmental conference centre in Latin America
Project Description
Rapid urbanisation throughout fast growing
countries, such as Brazil, India or China, has resulted in a neglect of
integrated-design of how we utilise water. In an increasingly urban world, it
is important to step back and review that the built environment is truly in
need of engaging with the specific requirements of water management at a local
scale.
The research project, UN Environmental
Conference Centre for Latin America is located in Rio De Janeiro. The
trajectory of design evolved from Brazil being one of the most dramatic cities
in the world, an array of cultural diversity, economical potentials and social
identifications.
Social
Meaning – As the public’s Conference Centre
Recycled water, both metaphorically and
functionally, could be used to give a
material meaning to represent the challenges of the developing country's
political transparencies. Through the series of conditional spatiality as governed
by water construction and dissipation, a transformable conference centre is
modified to serve different functional requirements – meeting spaces, cultural performance
platforms and private conferences can provide an alternative option to Oscar
Niemeyer’s ‘White Wall Global Container’.
Environmental
Meaning – As an Urban Flooding Prevention System
Considering the integration of daily grey
water management and urban flooding within the land systems of central Rio de
Janeiro’s urban area; the proposal serves as not only an amalgamated mechanical
coordinated design but a systematic organisation of these pathways can be used
as animated architectural tools, where spaces are created and dissipated
through the recycling of water. This project follows the research of organic
management systems where the development of biomaterial as a catalyst for the
undertaking of flood water, whilst, at the same time acts as a stimulus for the
re-engineering of the water management systems throughout different pedestrian
zoning. The proposal is developed through research into alternative flow control
and filtration of water, taking the biomaterial as stigma for a continuously
changing landscape due to its natural bio-degradable lifespan. The structure
and basic formal organisation of the building is regulated by the water
management systems, developed through a series of water flow simulations.
Technic
of Fluid Simu-tectonic & Bio-material
The technic of CNC milling has informed the
optimum flow of water in desired directions to designated channels in order to
begin the cleaning process. The premise is taken as an opportunity to develop a
parallel and a new type of architectural interface between architecture and
water. A fungus-fabric based bio-material, is used as an grey water filtering
material. The merging of material’s bio-degradable properties with newest CNC
milling technology could form the dramatic water-landscaping which is suitable
within the Rio de Janeiro’s humid context.
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