Techno-ecologies
Concurso internacional "self suficiente city" organizado por IaaC
Proyecto finalista
Techno-ecologies
Micro-Manifesto for a sustainable aproach in urban design:
a.Emergence. (open source, adaptive systems, non finite)
Any aim to promote self-sufficiency proposal must encourage emerging states. They should become permeable systems, capable of taking on new entries in them and making the whole more intelligent. The proposal should be open-source, both from the standpoint of software and hardware, to work on the operation of systems with new proposals and also proposed on the existing power. We take those emerging states also as models for action on recently-built and unsustainable urban environments. It is necessary to plead for reality review instead of extensive uses of the territory.
In any conventional burocratic urban development system, default updates are always late, becoming obsolete before it can be operational. Open systems accept external inputs through adaptations, mutations or updates in its own cycles. This allows critical purposing and direct testing of new solutions, instead of the unsustainable design promoted by external agents.
b.Tecnological ecosystems. (cycle network)
In our proposal, human environment consists of a technological set of organisms. They are to form self-sufficient systems increasing the number of relationships between them and other organisms (inhabitants included). We believe that self-sufficient architecture does not exist if it is not installed on its environmental natural cycles. At the same time, this architecture generates its own energy cycles in which urban environment installs or gets supported.
Cycle network allows multi-scale action in both the radius of action (urban, architectural, domestic or biological), as in its own cycles nature: industrial, construction, use, destruction...
On the other hand this proposal seeks to generate a complex multi-strategic ecosystem, which would not be able under specific or unique approaches.
Domesticity as a matter of ritual will be shaken by changes in production and consumption systems, storage and refrigeration, self food production or even proximity of resources. This will dramatically change the current domestic habits and awareness of individuals with regard to resource consumption, making them much more aware of their real value.
c.Technological niche (biomimicry, bioteconology)
We have related in nature, beyond its formal quality, about its organizational ecosystem models, climate control systems and energy production. Relationship between technological organisms is based in natural roles: mutualism, commensalism, parasitism and competition. Concerning the building, our proposal consists of a multi-programmed architecture, representing the desired complexity in a city. Structure is colonisable, extendible and mouldable depending on each environment needs, built by superposition and connecting energy cycles.
d.Data mangement. (mapping, "glocal")
Self-sufficient city has to do with resource management. To generate an urban model (social, technological, energy) self-sustainable and balanced, complex systems are required. This allows all involved players to trust in the proposed system. It is therefore essential striving to be able to record and manage the information that our environment offers, and that also the project itself generates. Technological organisms are now able to perform as self-balanced communities due to the data-network established between them.
e.Boundary conditions.
To prevent a project in a situationist approach, its environmental issues are its own boundary conditions. As a result, the building position is no more than a sensor permeable screen. Faced with the proceedings of closed architecture and extensive use of pens, the project is based on spatial influence of each technological organism. Their installation-colonization (with different densities and intensities) of urban space generates an altered and free urban action (public) through the accumulation of elements, avoiding demarcating actions (privatizing).
