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Applying the idea of the waste recycling house unit into urban scale a repetitive pattern should be adopted depending on the area that each unit should cover and the time that should be spent in order to get to the unit either on foot or by car. In the diagrams below you can see the prototype module and its repetition in the scale of Bucharest.

The waste recycling house unit is a actually a production unit involving input and output. Every unit has a primary input (piles of house waste gathered by garbage trucks) and a secondary input (individual items brought to the unit by the habitats of the area). The primary output for every unit is daily products that people can buy from the units instead of going to local supermarkets and the secondary output is customized products that people can order through the internet.

In the images below you can see how a waste recycling house unit function in daily bases. The facade of the building is constantly changing depending on the recycling items, the materials, the recycling and the manufacturing rate. In the images below you can see the how the plastic house functions in daily bases.

In the images below you can see how the facade is being transformed in the paper house, the glass house, the metal house, the fabric house, the electrical devices house, the ceramic house and the wood house.

In the link below you can find the video of the final presentation

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1763662754147210263&q=studio_II_final&ei=Ko06SJrKM4iG2QLa1Y3nAw&hl=en

The aim of the proposal is to create a system able to generate several inhabitance organizations for different, family structures by placing some prefabricated boxes that contain the program (facilities, infraestructures, rooms…) and add in-between spaces, in where each room can be spread, to link all the boxes.

Then, boxes and the spaces in-between are wraped with a mesh, which shape can be modified, to protect the house against climate conditions and to create an open air space that belongs to the owner of each house. These houses are wraped again with another mesh that contain public spaces in between houses.

Here you can find the whole final presentation.

final1.mp4

final2.mp4

In the video that you can find in this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UVUZ4L3IjI you can see my concept of my studio theme. In the video you can find an analysis of all the elements needed in order to make a house unit work as a recycling and productive unit at the same time. The system can only be sustainable if the elements are equally distributed in 8 units; each one of them focusing in the recycling and manufacturing of the same material

Reproducing Okupas life Style and showing some designs and desicions.

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Building as a Body and Ilegal Occupancy as Life Style.

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After mapping the city of Bucharest, one of the main problematic issues that emerged was the gathering and recycling of garbage.

In a well developed city network, garbage end up in recycling bins and are lead to a waste treatment plant where they are treated before dumped to the soil or to the sea. Imagine that instead of dumping garbage people start recycling them between themselves. Every household produces a number of waste every day. If neighboring households start exchanging their waste products according to recycling processes, every household can become a waste treatment unit recycling waste and producing new products out of recycling processes. In that way every household becomes a working unit. These products can then be selled to industries, commercial units or leisure places.

In the links below you can find the pdf files of the presentation

waste-problem.pdf

home_working.pdf

Below you can find some diagrams that represent my first thoughts concerning the development of the studio proposal. My initial thoughts, after mapping the area, evolve around the concept of energy saving, proposing double skin for the facades of the buildings and the recycling of grey water.  Concerning the organization of space I focused on the public transportation and the mixture of uses.

In the links below you can find the pdf files of the presentation

analysis-of-the-area.pdf

energy.pdf

Architecture no longer consists simply in making buildings. We no longer trust in abstract previousobjects whose existence does not require a site or a social back ground. In the other hand, theproper place is understood as a previously existing material to use and complete. Architects have tomaster new capacities: they become builders and design managers of the highly complex hybridthat is reality. The architectural project demands a dominating panoptic position above all overgroups of information. Population statistics, sociology data, cultural information, meteorologicaland geographical conditions, urban context, territorial claims, economical management,technological arrangement or aesthetic coherence must be simultaneously taken into account.The students would be aim to take a whole piece of reality and to provoke transformations onthe exinting behavour to reduce consumption in diferent ways. In this side, a “domesticating”process has to be produced. As well as plants, animals or natural sources suffer and intensetame, reeducation and reshape, as technical designs do. In these processes of domestication andmediation a large number of phenomena occur: components with an unknown origin and finalfunction are finally accepted, ways of expression are changed, “detours” from initial intentionsare made, some groups defined by their usage of technology are formed.Our process of “Low-technification” proposes a decrease in the technological level not only ofbuildings but also in social practices and, as a result, in their material cost. If we do not wantthis decrease to induce loss of comfort, precise new methods of analysis, control and eficiencymust be applied. The deepest knowledge of natural sources is knowing the most efficient usageof materials. This basic principle trasforms some vernacular architectural examples into relevantsubjects of study. Therefore, our material catalogue can now include cheaper or easily producedsamples. Some elements, their real value being very low, reach efficiency due to these preciseanalytical methods and a sophisticated application.