Thesis Design Exploration

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PRECEDENT RESEARCH Fog Cinema

The Fog Cinema is a proposal by 24º Studio (Fumio Hirakawa + Marina Topunova) for the “Changing the Face Pushkinsky Cinema Competition” sponsored by Architizer and DuPont.

Fog Cinema proposes a façade for Pushkinsky Cinema that will be veiled by a mystical fogwall, contained by a geometrical glass panels that dynamically change its face throughout day and night. A sensation that is never provided in any cinema house will further stimulate the imagination of Muscovites and visitors of Pushkinskaya Square. The new façade implements a double skin glass wall with two types of hexagrid patterned glass system on the outer skin: operable flat glass and concave glass made of DuPont™ SentryGlas® and Butacite®. The solid side façade will be restored and coated with DuPont™ Tyvek® and PercoTop® and implemented with second layer of hexagrid glass. http://www.evolo.us/architecture/fog-cinema-24%C2%BA-studio/ by : ELIAYES HAMZAH

CHAPTER 6

PRECEDENT RESEARCH Fog Cinema

The new facade will feature the ever-changing visual transformations created by the fog system and the natural/artificial lighting conditions. The fog will be created within the double-skin facade with the help of spray nozzles installed throughout the fogwall. Water sources are collected via off-site and from rain water and snow on rooftop. This water will be fed through the underground water collection tank, where it will be purified and fed through the spray nozzles to create fog. The high pressure water fed throughout the fog system will transform a clear double-skin facade into a mystical sensation that temporary conceals Pushkinsky Cinema. Sprayed out water will be collected at the base of the fogwall, and will be fed back to the water purifying tank. The operable concave glass panels serve as rain and snow collectors, and after collecting certain amount of water they diagonally slide and rotate to feed the collected water within the skin to the base gutter. Some portion of the water, together with purified waste water from the building will be used for irrigating the plants of Pushkinskaya Square.

The operable flat panels will open and allow fresh air inside the double skin facade to dry the glass after the fog performance is over.

http://www.evolo.us/architecture/fog-cinema-24%C2%BA-studio/ by : ELIAYES HAMZAH

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SUSTAINABILITY Ecological Impact

The ecological impact of this project towards environment is very high as they provide natural cycle for water for their daily usage.

As for this project, the fog collectors are the main design that collect water naturally without having to filter it. This would highly reduce the cost of producing clean water.

Moreover, based on the diagram shows, the lifecycle of water is infinite where all the water collected by the fog collectors are being use mainly for irrigation. During the dry season, the fog collectors might not be efficient as during the other season, thus vegetative fog collection cone has been introduced. This method catered for each individual trees for their own water supply, and the excess of water will be store in the storage and it will be use for irrigation for the small plants.

Having said that this system eventually creates green ecology which in future it helps on reforestation. In addition, the used water from the plantation can be recycle/ filter so that it can be used for potable water, hygiene, agriculture and also for gardening

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by : ELIAYES HAMZAH