United Nations Headquarters / Human Development City

From Data to Design

Human Development City

United Nations Headquarters in Victoria Falls Zimbabwe

Project by Karim Soliman & Mircea Mogan

Dessau Institute of Architecture Master Thesis _ SS 2011 Studio X

1st Advisor Prof. Christos Passas

2nd Advisor Prof. Alfred Jacoby

Teaching Assistant Alexander Kalachev

Anhalt University of Applied Sciences Dessau Institute of Architecture Master Thesis _ SS 2011 Studio X

From Data to Design

Human Development City

United Nations Headquarters in Victoria Falls Zimbabwe

Karim Soliman Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering, Urban Design Section, Faculty of Engineering, Ainshams University, Cairo, Egypt, 2007

Mircea Mogan Dipl. Arch. “Ion Mincu�

University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania, 2010 mirceamogan@yahoo.com

Prof. Christos Passas Guest DAAD Professor, B. Arch(Hons), AA Grad.Des. Dipl, Zaha Hadid Architects, UK / DIA (Bauhaus, Dessau), De / Architectural Association DRL, UK ckpassas@hotmail.co.uk

Prof. Alfred Jacoby Dipl-Arch. ETH, BDA, M.A. (Cambridge) Director Dessau International Architecture Graduate School, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences Dept. 3 AFG a001jacoby@aol.com

Teach. Assistant Alexander Kalachev M.Arch. Dessau Institute of Architecture, 2010 al.kalachev@gmail.com

Content

Forward Prologue 1. Subject . Updating United Nations Headquarters Building NYC 2. Background 3. Data - Research 3.1. Global Growth 3.2. Human Development 3.3. Human Development Report 3.4. Life Expectancy 3.5. Literacy rate 3.6. Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) 3.7. Gross Domestic Product per Capita 3.8. Human Development Index 3.9. Conclusion

4. Design 4.1. Design methods 4.2. Design experimentation 4.3. Overview on the existing Headquarters in New York City 4.3.1. UN Main Bodies 4.3.2. Countries Missions to UN 4.4. New site: Victoria Falls _ Zimbabwe 4.5. Concept - Design Ideas 4.6. HDI Diagram + Speculations till 2050 4.7. Form generating process 4.8. Continuos state of change 4.9. Flexibility and inflexibility 4.10. Simulating UN Bodies and countires Missions 4.11. Functional Diagram

5. Inteligent Interactive Inforamtion Hub 5.1. Inteligent Felxible Facade System 5.2. Interactive Display Screen Wall 5.3. Interactive Floor 6. Architectural Drawings 6.1. Site Plan 6.2. Ground Floor Plan 6.3. Missions Floor Level 6.4. Longitudinal Section 6.5. Cross Section 6.6. 3D Detail 7.Exterior and Interior Renderings

Forward

We would like to thank DIA school and to all our friends starting with Studio X team: Attawit (Thailand), Wudi (China), Justina (Lithuania), Li Chao (China), Xie (China), Wenjie (China), Hassan (Pakistan) for great times thorugh the master year. We appreciate and thank for the help of our friends who were close to our project development: Islam, Tudor, Marta, Alexandra, Emilia, Alex, Gvanza, Daniil, Kirill, Palina, Boris, Yura, Asa, Ola, Fernanda,Yahia, Matt, Monica, Mire, Miha, Masha, Mostafa, Zohal, Mike, Andrea, Victoria, Pedro, Mercedes, Andy, Diego, Daniel, Amr, Mohie, Mai, Shedeed, Grisha, Djamila, Mauro, Maya, Fillipo, Alec, Nastia, Mitali, Irina, Miruna, Andreea, Liu, Deng, Qin, and to all our colleagues who study in DIA. We dedicate this work to our parents and brothers who were always pushing us forward.

Special respect and appreciation to our tutors: Prof. Christos Passas, Prof. Alfred Jacoby and to Prof. Andreea Haase and Prof. Daniel Dendra.

Special thanks to our dear friend Alex Kalachev.

Prologue

Simultaneous forms of unity and dis-unity _ Studio Brief

Following on the footsteps of the work that was done over the last two years as part of the parametric agenda, the studio this year will focus on the Redesigning of the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

The project was first conceived as a collaborative effort among a multinational team of leading architects and the designs were evaluated with the eventual selection derived out of the designs of Niemeyer and Corbusier. Their mission was creating an iconic building that reflect the united nations image, a container that can accommodate all the united nations activities.

A lot of changes have come to the discipline of Architecture since then and the world at large.

While the modernist ideals are still appreciated and followed by the architectural world at large, one can sense that they have been transformed.

The work of philosophers such as Derrida and Deleuze-Guattari have given rise to a more complex set of values that have been explored since the 1990’s and the work of the deconstructivists and others. Today, the www and the networked economies of information exchange pose a serious challenge to the modernist manifesto.

The parametric way of working and the readily implementable algorithmic functions offer a new way of understanding architecture and space itself. A more elastic and malleable materiality is at hand with novel CAD/CAM technologies, 3d printing and state of the art computing.

How can architects today engage with projects such as the United Nations headquarters? How would one design the building, the Organization and the representation of the world’s states? 1 1 Prof Christos Passas - Studio X Studio Brief

1. Subject

Updating United Nations Headquarters Building, New York City

Updating United Nations Headquarters Building, New York City

The thesis project aims to propose a built structure entity for United Nations Headquarters in New York City conceived upon an intensive research and analysis on the nations, cultures, and people of the world on a span of time of the last century.

United Nations takes the mission to develop an international organization which deals with the major issues for all the nations: “1.to keep peace throughout the world; 2.to develop friendly relations among nations; 3. To help nations work together to improve the lives of poor people, to conquer hunger, disease and illiteracy, and to encourage respect for each other’s rights and freedoms; 4. To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations to achieve these goals.� 2 If we bring down the whole concept the key word would be interconnectivity, and the way

nations correspond, work, transform together. It seems nowadays that understanding all the nations as a global community with nations interacting is more than ever a fresh topic on the board. This inter-dependency and influence on each other is a result of better communication between people around the globe and information mobility and accessibility. Looking at this dynamic background of the new informational world the building should react and represent the community of all nation.

Our mission today is to update the united nations headquarters to be a medium that within the united nations mission can be more efficient and its message more clear. Using the parametric tools to illustrate the new protocols that capable to realize its goals by focusing on unifying nations with complete consciousness of their diversities that enrich our world.

2 http://www.un.org/

2. Background

2. Background

To update the United Nations Headquarters we need to react to the global contemporary conditions of all nations and to research on how the relationships between countries developed from the UN genesis till present. Taking a glimpse at this time period there are some impressive number modification: the world population almost tripled and there was registered a high and fast level of development through all the nations. For this we as Studio divided in groups to search in 4 meta topics; Charts of Organization’s structure and Unrepresented Groups in UN, Evolution of human history through Migration, Peacekeeping and conflicts, Tracing Patterns of Consumption Production and our team choose to trace the global growth and human development of the nation’s patterns.

The new UN headquarter should represent the diversity and complexity of the nations

and accommodate the needs of the organizations of UN nowadays and have the flexibility to adapt itself to future changes. There are two aspect which I would like to mention: first of all the increasing mobility of people around the world who are travelling, changing their work and residence place from one place to another, with a final result in a community with a mix of nations and cultures. On another hand, there is phenomenon of intercommunity, which is “the working hypothesis of the new information age” 3 . Leaving in a digital age, communication between people happens on the web through the social networks connecting people from all over the world. This way of human interaction is spreading with frequency around the world, emerging a new society, after the industrial one, the information society.This information society is capable to shape a new understanding of the world, it minded the gap between different societies,

3 Metapolis dictionary of advanced architecture, Actar Publishing, Barcelona, 2000, pg. 356 4 Vladimir Dimitrov, Dynamics of human identity, 1998

made new bridges between different cultures, giving us a better understanding and more capability to accept the other.

In today’s society there are two distinguishable attractors for the dynamics of human identity one is the attractor of separateness, the other is the attractor of unity.

The Attractor of Separateness When changes in individual identity are oriented towards the attractor of separateness, they make individuals compete, fight for better positions in society, for more acquisition of power, money, prestige. When drawn to the attractor of separateness, human identity celebrates individual ego with all its sick fantasies of success and dominance over others. The attractor of separateness makes us constantly to look at the world through the eyes of what this world can give us.

At the attractor of separateness, human

identities can be easily fixed and separated into boxes with different labels and numbers on them.

The communication between ‘boxes’ is difficult, if not impssible. This is exactly what in manifested today: the gap between the rich and poor parts of society has become so deep that people in one of the group started to behave in a very different way than people in another – almost like entirely different species.

The forces in power always support the attractor of separateness. The ancient political maxima “Divide et impera” (divide in order to rule) has worked, works and will work perfectly at this attractor.

The Attractor of Unity When changes in identity are oriented towards the attractor of unity, they make individuals respect, help and listen to each other. Being at the attractor of unity, human identity

celebrates the differences between people, their uniqueness and their drive towards understanding, dialogue and complementarity. The attractor of unity makes human identity look at the world through the eye of what we can give to this 5 world.

The European Union are self-referential: they rely upon themselves for their growth – they do not put themselves at the mercy of an fixed group identity (no matter how attractive it seems to appear) or authority; The EU does not lose their uniqueness (singularities): at the contrary, they share these singularities in order to allow complementarity to emerge.

The more self-reliant and diverse individual identities, the more rich and creative is their emerging

complementarity.This complementarity leads to a new form of group identity – not a fixed one, but dynamic, that is, open to evolve simultaneously with the co-evolving individual identities.

Today it’s time to replace the attractors of separateness with the attractors of unity in the world agenda. It’s time for the human identity to rise to be on the top of all the diverse world identities.

The articulating energy of information society is the concept of interchange which extends further from one reality to many realities, a shifting force exchanging information in between realities. Connecting local images with global perspectives or users with their cultural environments, there is a sort of dynamic flexible influence on many levels of our lives, drawing the contemporary general agenda of our society. It resembles with the complexity of the world described by philosophers 5 Vladimir Dimitrov, Dynamics of human identity, 1998

Deleuze and Guatari in the book:” A Thousand Plateaus” the second part in the series Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The author’s debate upon the real structure of the mind thinking processes, which later will expand to the way we think at space, generate a new kind of space according to the advanced understanding of the world.

Comparing the old understanding of the world and thinking process as an arborescent structure is updated by the rhizomatic experience.

Borrowed from botanic, the concept represents in philosophical terms the network relations with multiple entries and exits in data representation and interpretation. The rhizome is composed out of multiple and flexible connections and heterogeneous parts in opposition with the tree kind of system. In the same time very important is the multiplication aspect of the rhizome, all the time being in transformation, determined just by the

size, dimensions, connections, and not by identity, units. Under continuous modification the constituent parts can be broken in any place and renewed by the same action. All in all, having multiple flexible connections which duplicate and renew themselves results the open, detachable, transformation map, an image of permanent deconstruction and reconstruction. The map is self-sense experience generated interpretation of what we perceive. Which kind of space can be produced on the basis of these concepts? It’s a form of patchwork, with a pattern of connections, without front and back situations, and center less.

The present stage in human evolution reflects this kind of nation’s network development, of course with the unity and disunity perpetual change.

3. Data - Research

3. Data - Research - Human Development and Global Growth First of all we define our topic: Global Growth and Human Development as generative process part of the new United Nations building.

3.1. Global Growth represents the multi-

tude of economic growth of nations, by increasing wealth over time. The most used measure of economic growth is the real growth in a country’s total output of goods and services determined by the gross domestic product (GDP).

3.2. Human Development

represents an international and economic paradigm taking care of an environment in which people can develop their full potential and lead productive, create lives in accordance with their needs and interests, thus bringing the focus back onto the people. Prof. Amartya Sen draws down the essence of human development: “Human Development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings

live, which is only a part of it.”

As part of the complex organization of UN, the United Nations Development Program is the institution responsible for measuring, analyzing the development of the nations. After the end of the Second World War the nation’s tracks of development began with a structure divided into the three categories 1st, 2nd, 3rd worlds narrowing down very clear and different categories (according to political factors), till today when the development situation shows a more gradient, diverse and heterogeneous image: very high human development, high human development, medium human development and low human development. One very important aspect in this whole human evolution is that the big economical powers that time were counterbalanced by nations which had a high speed development, equilibrating the global situation nowadays.

figure1. factors of human development index

3.3. Human Development Report is an annual publication released by United Nations Development Program to study nation’s development factors with a final conclusion based on a Human Development Index, showing the evolution of each country in that certain year. This factors concerning human development are: Life expectancy at birth, Literacy, Gross Enrolment Ratio, Gross Domestic product per Capita. By collecting data from United Nations database, The World Bank database we draw graphics to track ways of how nations developed.

figure2. Human Development Report 2010

figure3. Selected countries for evaluation

3.4. Life Expectancy at birth is an important item due to the fact that it reflects the perspectives of living years at a certain time, in this case at birth.

This indicator is also depending on a more complex range of other factors like the public health system, medical care, diet and lifestyle or on mortality rates, infant mortality, war, starvation and diseases. Looking from regional point of view, today, most of African countries have low life expectancy between 47-57years, the lowest being Zimbabwe, mostly because of the diseases and unimproved water sources. At the other side, highest life expectancy is in countries like Japan(83), Hong Kong(82), Switzerland(82), Iceland(82), and Australia(81). Researching on the life expectancy evolution through time, there is a constant increase: 25-40 (1800), 25-75(1950), and 42-83 (2000), with a prediction for 2050, 55-87. Behind this trend there are medicine improvement, knowledge and better health system.

figure4. Life expectancy at birth in 2010 on map

figure5. Life expectancy at birth 1950-2050

Comparing the continents situations, this year, the things are different than in the country chart, due to the average image and opposite situations on the same continent: North America(80) Europe(78), Australia(76), South America(74) Asia(72) Africa(58).

From the perspective of the 7 List countries, in the same year, the life expectancy looks like this: United States(82), European Union(80), Brazil(75), China(75), Arabic States (72), Russian Federation(68) and India (65) As regarding the centenarians each year it’s registered an increase of 7%, which means doubling the centenarian population every decade, from 455,000 in 2009 to 4.1 million in 2050. Wellbeing and long life are mostly influenced by high standards of living, healthy diet, and high health public system.

figure4. Life expectancy at birth in 2010 by continents

figure5. Life expectancy at birth 1950-2050 by Group of 7

3.5. Literacy represents the “ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute and use printed and written material associated with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning in enabling individuals to achieve their goals, to develop their knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in their community and wider society�. In this case analyzing the evolution from 1960 to 2010 while most of the countries were equivalently distributed between 7% to 100% , today around 145 countries have more than 80% percent literate persons, which shows a better standing for the world literacy level.

figure8. Literacy rate in 2010 on map

figure 9. Literacy rate 1960-2010

From the continent perspective, while North America(97 to 98%), Europe(96 to 98%), Australia(93%) had already high values of literacy, the other part of the world made impressive steps South America(75 to 90%), Asia(69 to 85%) and Africa(45 to 65%).

Now is more than ever the time of emerging countries with developing economies: China(63 to 94%), Brazil(60-88.6%), India (33 to 69%). Most literate people(100%) are in countries like Andorra, Finland, Georgia, Norway, Luxembourg, while at the bottom of the list we find Benin, Guinea, Niger, Afghanistan, Burkina Faso (25-30%). Again in Africa there are most of the illiterate people due to the undeveloped education system; but not for all of them, in this case countries like Zimbabwe (90%), Kenya(85.1%), Lesotho(84.8%)are upper on the list.

figure10. Literacy rate 1960-2010 by continents

figure 11. Literacy rate 1960-2010, Group of 7

3.6. Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) is calculated by expressing the number of students enrolled in primary, secondary and tertiary levels of education,

regardless of age, as a percentage of the population of official school age for the three levels. On the same time span from 1960 to 2010, nation’s values of GER started from 7%to 82% and a pick point around 98% percent. Nowadays with most of the countries between 70-100% and a small group from 25-70%, demonstrates the huge development of education systems around the world. While on the top there are countries like: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark at the bottom of the list are African countries: Chad, Burkina Faso, African Central Republic, Niger, Djibouti.

figure 12. Gross enrolment ratio in 2010 on map

figure 13. Gross enrolment ratio 1960-2010

Regarding the continent overview we observe the following evolutions: North America(90-96%), Europe(82-97%), Australia(73-92%), South America(6088%), Asia(56-84%), Africa(39-65%).

Comparing to other indicators GER has fluctuating values in time, for example: Brazil started in 1960 from 60 %, and increased till 90% in 1980, after that dropping to 73% in the next 10 years and increasing again to almost 90% till today. The causes for this evolution through time are first of all the public education system, access to school, or in other cases like Afghanistan, war and cultural and religious issues.

figure14. Gross enrolment ratio 1960-2010 by continents

figure 15. Gross enrolment ration 1960-2010, Group of 7

3.7.Gross Domestic Product per Capita represents the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year divided by

the average population for the same year. In this sense the welfare of one nation is related to the people, offering a more realistic view on how much one person would have his “distribution�, though this not the real value of what he is earning. Looking at the data from 1975 to 2010, at the beginning period of time the values were mostly under the 10.000 $, with 3 nations over this sum: United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Kuwait; while at present there are around 70 countries with GDP per capita higher than 10.000 to the maximum of 100.000 with the top countries such as Luxembourg, Norway. Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland and Kuwait.

figure 16. GDP per capita 2010 on map

figure 17. GDP per capita 1975-2010

By continents two main leaders North America(32.000$), Europe(26.000$) and Australia(11.000$), Asia(9000$), South America(5000$), Africa(3000$) lower on the chart. Looking at the list of 7, United States is on the top with 42.000$, followed by European Union(31.500$), Arab States(10.000$), Russian Federation(10.000$), Brazil(8200$), China(3200$) and India(1000$).

figure18. GDP per capita 1975-2010 by continents

figure 19. GDP per capita 1975-2010, Group of 7

3.8. Human Development Index is statistics analysis, measuring the development of nations according to the indicators: life Expectancy (health), educational attainment and income. Merging all the indicators discussed above we get a general and closer to real human values perspective. From a peak point in 1975 occupied by Switzerland with 0.872, in 2010 the maximum value of human development reached 0.938 by Norway, followed by other countries over 0.9 line. Today the most developed countries after Norway are Australia(0.937), New Zealand(0.907), United States(0.902) and on the bottom Mozambique(0.284), Burundi(0.282), Niger(0.26), Congo Dem. Republic(0.239), Zimbabwe(0.14). The whole image shows a general tendency of human life evolution.

figure 20. Human Development Index 2010 on map

figure 21. Human Developmvent Index 1975-2010

3.9. Conclusion

After researching and analyzing the statistics of human development we are grasping the patterns of growth and development, in which nations raised their standards of living. Seen as whole, the world map is represented as a network of evolutionary lines, which developed faster or slower according to the collective mentality and potential of each nation. On another hand because of the interaction in forms of collaboration between countries, new links developed-developing countries were created, giving a kick-start to the nations willing to develop. From another point of view our world is all time changing forms of unity and disunity, with countries where people are suffering from starvation and diseases missing the basic needs for a decent human life to the other extremity where high living standards change the life itself.

The challenge is to propose a network structure for United Nations to reflect to these realities,

which are changing through time, and can bring different situations in future. The interdependency between these parameters income, health, education produce shifting positions on the world map.

4. Design

4.1. Design methods The architecture has to respond to these new dynamic changing conditions of the nations today, to make the home where all this interchanges between nations should happen, a field where each representative of a group of people is connected with the other. Design process starts from the research and analysis done on the human development factors: life expectancy, literacy, gross enrolment ratio, GDP per capita and other factors as demographic indicators, and continues with taking all this data and transforming into parameters of the updated United Nations.

figure 22. 3d diagram for GER, Life expectancy & Literacy rate

figure 23. Generating process out of the graph

4.2. Design experimentation

There are certain connections which have to be made to in the sense to create a scenario for how the new United Nations should work as a spatial organization, with all the activities necessary for a better representation of people around the world. The design method will follow advanced digital experimentation looking for meaningful patterns, formulating the spatial architectural organization. In straight relation with the data collected, the use of parametric tools will generate flexible and complex structures representing the United Nations Headquarters through the human development lens.

figure 24. 3d diagram for Literacy rate, Gross enrolment ratio and GDP per Capita

figure 25. Generating process out of the graph

4.3. Overview on the existing Headquarters in New York City

4.3.1. UN Main Bodies Secretariat Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) (5) Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS)(3) SUBSIDIARY BODIES OF ECOSOC Office of Legal Affairs (OLA)(6) ECOSOC Functional Commissions(9) Department of Political Affairs (DPA)(10) ECOSOC Regional Commissions(5) Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA)(5) ECOSOC Standing Committees(3) Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO)(4) ECOSOC Ad hoc bodies Department of Field Support (DFS()4) Expert bodies composed of governmental experts(3) Expert bodies composed of members serving in their Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)(6) Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)(10) personal capacity(5) Department for General Assembly and Conference Management Other related bodies(4) (DGACM)(5) Department of Public Information (DPI)(3) Security Council General Assembly Department of Safety and Security (DSS)(3) Department of Management (DM)(4) Standing Committees(3) Six Main Committees Internal Justice Bodies Ad Hoc Committees Boards(4) Ethics Office Sanctions Committees Executive Boards(3) Office of the Ombudsperson Office of the United Nations Ombudsman (OUNO) Commissions(6) Advisory Commission(1) Subsidiary Bodies Bureaux Office of Administration of Justice UN Dispute Tribunal (UNDT) 2010(12) Committees(17) UN Appeals Tribunal (UNAT) Working Groups(5) Ad hoc Committees International Criminal Tribunals Advisory Committees(3) Peacekeeping Operations International Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Executive Committee(1) International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) High-level Committee(1) UN Regional Commissions Special Committees(4) UN Offices Away From Headquarters Councils(2) United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) Governing Councils(3) United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) Panel(1) United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) Working Groups(15) Other Offices(8) Other(5) ECO-SOC Council

6300 m2

General Assembly Court

Lobby 2500 m2

General Assembly Committies

General Assembly 28000 m2

Eco Soc Council Security Council 1500 m2

Lobby 1200 m2

Security Council10000m2

Additional Conference10000m2

1500 m2

Lobby 1200 m2

Eco Soc 10000m2

Library 11610 m2

UN Councils & Committees 70.000sqm

Secretariat 78.000sqm (present 200sqm x 39)

4.3.2. Countries Mission to UN Today 192 country’s representative Missions in united nations are spread in Mostly in Manhattan, new jersey and Brooklyn. Occupying about 500900 meters square each. which means they occupying almost double the area of the united nations headquarters itself in new York.

Wasting a lot of time in traveling between missions to the headquarters and back which decrease their presence in the headquarters and lead to week communications between countries representatives.

As a basic design idea was to bring all of these missions in house together with the UN bodies which makes the countries missions is a new element on the united nations complex.

UN Country Missions 192 x 560sqm 107.520sqm

4.4. New site: Victoria Falls _ Zimbabwe The new united nations headquarter will be moved from New York to Zimbabwe .

Zimbabwe have the lowest human development index through all the time since inauguration of the united nations till today Zimbabwe having 0.14 HDI. Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in southern Africa near to the 15th lowest human developed countries. Zimbabwe is formal English colony got its independence in 1965. The official language is English beside Shona and Ndebele. Zimbabwe now faces vast economic and class gaps and an inflation rate that tops 100,000 percent. Zimbabwe have the highest adult litracy rate in aftica and the lowest life expectancy in the world in year 2006.

Moving the united nations head quarters to Zimbabwe is a rebirth to the lowest 15 countries in the human development index rate in the world. It’s a clear statement of how united nation can help these countries in Africa to improve adult literacy rate , increase life expectancy, improving drinking water and all other human development conditions to achieve its millennium goals by the year 2050.

Location of Zimbabwe in Africa make close to the geographical center of the world (0,0,0 coordinates), all the countries will fly almost the same flying distance.

4.6. HDI Diagram 1975-2010 + 2050 speculation

After we analyzed the Human Development index (HDI) performance of the countries we had to speculate the performance of the countries in the next till 2050 according to the intentions of the united nations in its millennium goals. That all the countries of the world will be very high developed.

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4.7. Form Generating Process

The graph showing the performance of the member countries in united nations since 1945. Since the idea is to generate a form reflecting the HDI performance of the countries since the year of it joined the united nations.

4.8. Inflexibility & Flexibility The countries missions are flexible in the building , and will change their place , through time around the rest of the functions which is fixed. location.

4.9. Simulating UN Main Bodies These balls are representing the UN main bodies (General Assembly , Security council , Trusteeship Council and Social economic council) moving on the paths of the countries to find its place where most of the countries paths meet.

Simulating Mission around fixed UN Main Bodies

As a further step after the main bodies found its location, the missions started to search for a place where one country from the 4 different categories of the united nations meet.

4.10. Continuous state of change

The missions places is changing periodically to react with the changes in the world based on the performance of the human development in each country.

The rule is to make sure that in every scenario all the countries from the very high developed or the high developed have to have a neighbor from the medium developed or low developed countries. The goal is to increase the probability to meet each other informally and to give more opportunity for better communication.

4.11. Functional Diagram

5. Inteligent Interactive Information Hub

5.1. Inteligent Flexible Facade System

5.2. Interactive Display Screen Wall

5.3. Interactive Floor

6. Architectural Drawings

Aerial View

6.1. Site Plan

UN Headquarters Zambezi River

Victoria Falls Victoria Falls City

6.2. Ground Floor Plan

6.3. Missions Floor Level

6.4. Longitudinal Section

6.5. Cross Section

7.Exterior and Interior Renderings

Inteligent Flexible Facade System

The facade becomes a medium of transfering information to the viewers, being able to change the trasparencies, shape, and colours.

River Perspective

Open public space for future scenarios

General Assembly

8. 3D Model

figure 60. Bird eye view - 3d Model

figure 61. street side view - 3d Model

figure 62. River side view - 3d Model

figure 63. close on security council - 3d Model

figure 64. close on the councils facade - 3d Model

figure 65. Close on secretariat facade - 3d Model

figure 66. River side view - 3d Model

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