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.