FUTURE CLIMATE SHELTER
Some emergency situations require instant action to be taken.
Philippines is one of the places that are most affected by major floods in the world. When these floods happen, the population is left paralyzed and without any resources. As a response, a project emerges proposing an architecture that addresses both flood management and the need for shelter.
Being Iloilo City Proper (Iloilo, Panay Island) one of the areas that suffers the most from the effects of flooding, a new yellow infrastructure is proposed to palliate them. This infrastructure is composed of a green network that provides shade and a blue network that mitigates flooding by conducting water through ponds that collect it and channel it to storm tanks located in the large areas of the city.
Firstly, the climate emergency is addressed from a strategic point located in one of the city's nerve centers, the Iloilo Central Market, placing one of the storm tanks there. In addition to the old market program, which will be maintained, it will house an emergency area for refugees and people displaced by these catastrophes. The proposed architecture integrates organically with the natural environment, consisting of a 23 m high bamboo (Guadua Angustifolia Kunth) cover that, through its truncated and cone structure, collects and conducts rainwater to the subway storm tank. This cover is composed of three interrelated structural systems: the catenaries, the “foniles” and the bottles.
Besides this, the context of the hot tropical climate of Philippines poses the challenge of creating a cool indoor environment and reducing humidity. The combination of ETFE envelope, fan coils and ceiling fans emerges as an optimal strategy to acclimatize the large spaces while addressing energy efficiency, a crucial aspect in an environment with significant energy demand.
The Future Climate Shelter aims to achieve the fundamentals of an architecture that solves the problems of HEALTH, CLEAN WATER and SHELTER, while presenting a critique towards society's ignorance of current climate issues.
Philippines is one of the places that are most affected by major floods in the world. When these floods happen, the population is left paralyzed and without any resources. As a response, a project emerges proposing an architecture that addresses both flood management and the need for shelter.
Being Iloilo City Proper (Iloilo, Panay Island) one of the areas that suffers the most from the effects of flooding, a new yellow infrastructure is proposed to palliate them. This infrastructure is composed of a green network that provides shade and a blue network that mitigates flooding by conducting water through ponds that collect it and channel it to storm tanks located in the large areas of the city.
Firstly, the climate emergency is addressed from a strategic point located in one of the city's nerve centers, the Iloilo Central Market, placing one of the storm tanks there. In addition to the old market program, which will be maintained, it will house an emergency area for refugees and people displaced by these catastrophes. The proposed architecture integrates organically with the natural environment, consisting of a 23 m high bamboo (Guadua Angustifolia Kunth) cover that, through its truncated and cone structure, collects and conducts rainwater to the subway storm tank. This cover is composed of three interrelated structural systems: the catenaries, the “foniles” and the bottles.
Besides this, the context of the hot tropical climate of Philippines poses the challenge of creating a cool indoor environment and reducing humidity. The combination of ETFE envelope, fan coils and ceiling fans emerges as an optimal strategy to acclimatize the large spaces while addressing energy efficiency, a crucial aspect in an environment with significant energy demand.
The Future Climate Shelter aims to achieve the fundamentals of an architecture that solves the problems of HEALTH, CLEAN WATER and SHELTER, while presenting a critique towards society's ignorance of current climate issues.
- 00 - Description
- 01 - FCS
- 02 - Philippine floods
- 03 - Yellow Net
- 04 - Strategic location
- 05 - Climate shelter
- 06 - The shelter geometry
- 07 - Structure in height
- 08 - Layers
- 09 - Water management
- 10 - Gak structure
- 11 - Climate management
- 12 - Etfe envelope
- 13 - FCS view
- 14 - Video