Virtual Home 2. Buildner Architecture Competitions. London 2023.
Project name: Memory. Shortlisted project
Las Vegas Desert Building Background
The project is made up of 3 levels with a square floor plan of 7.07 meters x 7.07 meters in which
the requirements of the requested program are housed.
The ground floor is for access and only the vertical circulation (access staircase) and the structure
based on a matrix of pillars with a square base are found.
The living room is located on the first level, the work room is located on the second level,
while the third level is the “outdoor” living/gathering space.
The project is made up of an internal glass volume, which is included within another volume that
defines the façade, the two volumes are separated by a perimeter corridor.
The facades are inspired by fractal geometry, achieving a structured pattern based on triangles.
This mathematical-spatial configuration, which is not necessarily the only one.
From this spatial configuration a mathematical matrix can be obtained, which can vary and serve to
project a different façade.
The crowning of the facades is designed from the Sierpinski Carpet,with fractal
geometry, in 1 meter by 1 meter panels, which cover the entire high perimeter of the building that is
projected at a total height of 8, 8 meters.
The energy efficiency of the building will be regulated by computer engineering systems such as
home automation associated with artificial intelligence that will learn from the behavior of the
climate and users to efficiently manage energy resources.
Dakota Tower. Buildner Architecture Competitions.
Project name: Skin.
The project is made up of a tower of three metallic platforms with a circular plan of radius=1.95 meters, surrounded by an exterior skin.
This skin is structured based on hexagons that are inspired by fractal geometry and in this case have two iterations.
Iteration 1 is empty while iteration 2 is filled by a copper plate.
Vertical circulation is resolved by a central elevator, at the back of which there is an emergency staircase.
The tower has 2 entrances, one facing the elevator doors and the other at the beginning of the stairs.
The skin, for its part, which surrounds the entire set, curves slightly at the upper and lower ends.
Illumination is provided by lights arranged in a polar array on the roofs of the platforms.
The crowning is a fourth platform with lights arranged again across a polar array.
In the environment, a path is built that takes us to the tower and is configured with mathematical patterns
and materialized by hexagonal-shaped tiles that again have two iterations based on fractal geometry.
This tiled path is accompanied by street furniture, hexagonal-shaped benches as shown in the figure.
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Montevideo 2073
I think that by 2073 structural calculations will be able to be improved, new materials will have been created with the advancement of chemistry thanks to the development of quantum computing and more complex structures will be able to be projected.
The structure proposed in this project is a hemisphere with a radius of 500 meters located in the vicinity of the Trouville neighborhood of Montevideo. Its structure is a fractal lattice as shown in the images. Today it would be built in steel but I think that by 2073 there will be better materials.
The structure supports glass panels or some translucent polymer that will allow us to protect ourselves from the adverse effects of the atmosphere that by that time will have been devastated by climate change.
These semispheres will be arranged in all neighborhoods, thus forming protection against atmospheric effects, an already unbearable sun and other derived phenomena.
By this time Elon Musk will have already developed the Hyperloop, and it will be projected there as shown in the figure connecting the different hemispheres, it will be separated from the traditional street at a height of 3 meters.
Other secondary arteries will also be elevated at this height and will connect the rest of the neighborhoods.
By appropriately using architecture, engineering and technology we can save ourselves from the disastrous effects that climate change has ahead of us.