UA_2 FINAL PRESENTATION

ADAPTATION VS. DOMINATION

NOW A DAYS DUBAI IS TRYING TO DOMINATE THE DESSERT, BUT IT IS LOSING THIS BATTLE.

 OUR PROJECT FOR DUBAI CITY IS A PROGRESSIVE PROPOSAL, THE ADAPTATION AGAINST THE DOMINATION.

So we started the semester learning from a plant which is the welwitchscia that can survive in the dessert with very few resources. It survives because it adapts to it, and we wanted to create a new city, a new architecture with the elements that are already in the city, mainly SALT WATER.

We were also REFERENCED IN ORGANISMS WHICH CAN SURVIVE, AND WE LEARN THAT THEIR ANATOMY CAN GIVE US SOME CLUES OVER OUR IDEA OF A PROGRESSIVE AND POSSITIVE CHANGE.

WE TOOK AS OBJETIVE SITUATIONS AS THE NO-IDENTITY ACTUAL OF THE CITY, BUT ALSO THE EVOCATIVE OF HIS LEGACY, CLOSED TO THE LIVE IN THE SEA AS FISHERMAN PEARLS, AND WITH THEIR NOMAD LIVE IN THE DESERT, PEOPLE WHO KNOWS AND RESPECTS  NATURAL STREGHTS , ALSO THE WINDS, AND THE HIGH TEMPERATURE

WE ASKED OURSELFS OVER WHAT WE NEED TO DO FOR LIVE IN DUBAI CITY OVER PREMISES ABOUT ADAPTATION, and that’s why we have develop this project.

WE DESIGN A GADGET WICH WILL HELP US TO TRANSFORM THE CITY, THIS GADGET ARE STRUCTURES WICH RULES AS AIR BALLONS PUMPED WITH METANO GAS.

THE GADGET, MAKES FLIES (AS A ROUND TRIP) WHO STARTS IN THE LAUNCHERS AND ELEVATES OVER THE SEA AND DESERT PLATTFORMS CATCHING FOG IN THE ATMOSFERE AND FINISHES ITS TRIP WHEN LEAVES ALL HIS WATER HARVESTED IN THE CITY AS A WATERING PROVIDING IN A INTENSIVE BOMBING HUMIDITY TO ALL THE CITY.

OVER THIS IDEA TO BRINGINGWATER TO THE CITY FOR TRANSFORM AN ARID ENVIROMENT WE DECIDE TO GO FOR IT READAPTING OLD USES AND EQUIPEMENTS, CREATING NEW ARQUITECTURES FROM INDUSTRIAL ONES.

IN THE NEW ESCENA WE CAN SEE HOW THE SKYSCRAPERS SUFFERS THE HIGH SALT SOLUTION OVER THEY LIGHTER FAÇADES, AND THEN THEY START TO BE TRANSFORMED, THE TONS OF SALT CREATES, BY THE WATER IRRIGATION, GROWING AND TRANSFORMIG SALT ESTRUCTURES, AS CRISTALS, CREATING SHADOWS AS CELOSIAS AND FORMING CORREDORS FOR PEDESTRIANS, AND BY ITS ESTRUCTURE TRANSFORMING ALSO THE VISION OF THE CITY FILTERTING THE LIGHT PLAYING WITH ITS REFLEXIONS.

ALSO WE DECIDED TO TOOK ADVANTAGEOF THIS SALT TO CREATE THE CORRIDOR TO MAKE POSSIBLE THE LIVABILITY IN SUMMER OF THE NEW STREETS THAT WE HAVE CREATED, BECAUSE THIS CRYSTALS OF SALT MAKE MICROCLIMATE WITH SHADOWS AND WITH THE WATER OUR GADJET IS AFFORDING TO THE CITY.