Tutorial 29 Jan 2010

Reconnecting with Nature
Why: Since the Machine Age, Le Corbusier has declared that “The House is a machine for living in” which mean architects should make the house as well suited to its purpose as a machine was because house is one of the primary living unit of the city. On the other hand, greenhouse gas has emitted since the creation of steam engine, it dichotomized the interrelationship between the natural and artificial worlds. Annihilative natural cycles affected on the global climate change, by consequence, the situations are more detrimental to particular landscapes, geophysical and economic conditions. Contemporary architecture is attempting to deal with global climate change by constructing and using inert, industrial era construction materials to solve this problem, but it’s not enough to manipulate the flow and transfer of energy from the biosphere to the built environment.
What: This architectural project proposes to reconnect with nature by investigating the relationship between the primary living units of the city and microcosm of organism to allow the possibility of self-generating and environmental responsive materials. This might rephrase the declaration from Le Corbusier in the biological context, as “The House is an organism for living”, which mean architects should make the house as well suited to its purpose as an organism was to create a genuine sustainable cycle, which can possibly consume greenhouse gas and become a part of the nature.
How: To reconstruct an existing house in term of mass, surface and plan to replace the new context from the Machine Age in biological context by using a transdisciplinary approach of biotechnology, nanotechnology, geoengineering and architecture to manipulate the real environment that responds to the city.

Tutorial 22 Jan 2010

Reconnecting The Nature : Carbon Architecture

The Twentieth Century modernism architecture can be described in the other way as a Machine Age as the declaration of Le Corbusier “ A house is a machine to live in “. As a result of the creation of steam engine in the industrial revolution, the abundant manufacturer has been emitted green house gas to the atmosphere and dichotomized the interrelationship between the natural and artificial worlds. Annihilative natural cycles affected on the global climate change, by consequence, the situations are more detrimental to particular landscapes, geophysical and economic conditions.

One of the most important destructive natural cycles is carbon cycle. The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle, which carbon is annually exchanged among the 5 reservoirs -biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. The enormous unnatural emanation of carbon dioxide destroys the balance of carbon cycle.

The ambition of sustainability architecture was constructed to dispose and reduce carbon footprint to stabilize carbon cycle but it could not be enough efficiency to manipulate all the problems with the inertness construction materials, which cannot liberally flow the energy and information from biosphere to the built environment.

This architectural project proposes to reconnect with the nature by investigating the biological system, extreme environment and the metabolic interrelationship of carbon in organic and non-organic elements to allow the possibility of self generate and environmental response materials, which concern about the global climate change.

Northwest Black Sea is the place where the climate change extremely impact to the water temperature rising, which increase methane seepage from the seafloor. It was investigated a self generate carbonate reef-like structure of the methane and carbon dioxide consuming, methanotrophic microbial mats in an anoxide condition. This biological process protects the emission of methane and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. However, the high range of gasses seepage will overbalance the process.