UD.901.01_Cloud Cloud Architecture: Active Errosion & Disassembly
Critic: Carla Leitao_Fall 2011_G.A.U.D. Pratt Institute
The CLOUD studio places emphasis on the relationship between architecture and event on a national/international level; a careful study of material tectonics allows for a comprehensive design which speculates on the effect of architecture and assembly/disassembly of the event. Environmental qualities of a tectonselected site impact aspects such as programmatic conditions, form, structure and ultimately material tecton ics of the architecture that serves the event in a given timeframe. International events such as the Olympics, World Cup, World Expositions and other such events serve as precedent studies and can be selected for investigation in any given location and time period in the future.
2050
During the precedent analysis phase, I teamed up with two students to study the major World Expositions over the course of the past century. In particular we looked at the Paris Exposition of 1889, Montreal Exposition of 1967 and the Shanghai Exposition of 2010. An in-depth study of the world expositions led to the conclusion that overtime there is an evident shift of World Expo location from the West to the East. The proposal for CLOUD studio is focused on the international event of ‘Ramadan’ taking place in a global city from the eastern hemisphere, particularly in the U.A.E. region called Abu Dhabi.
2038
With its seemingly infinite resource of natural gas and oil, Abu Dhabi has prospered significantly in the world since the past fifty years. Today this global city has a rising industry in most fields, a diversified economy, an improved eduation and health reform system and a grand proposal that will bring the city to an international level known as ‘Vision 2030.’ The CLOUD intervention takes place in the time frame of 2015 - 2030, then continues in the years to follow. Upon the annual arrival of the holy month of “Ramadan” Muslims from all over the world obtain fasting from sunrise to sunset. The city of Abu Dhabi, like most other Muslim cities actively participates in this event, influencing the daily lives and activities of working men and women as well as children within the city. The intervention would take advantage of the 30 day period during which the holy month is observed and propose a grand event celebrating Eid, a global holiday which marks the end of Ramadan within “Event Containers.” These are used to hold daily art,cultural and entertainment activities containduring Ramadan then converted into much-needed affordable housing units post-event. The “event contain ers” are made by using a rigid, seemingly spontaneous but an underlying organization system that serves as scaffolding for pre-fabriated panels that can be disassembled or re-arranged after the event to be converted to affordable housing units as needed by the city.
2032
2030
2042