WATER PURIFICATION SKYSCRAPER IN JAKARTA

WATER PURIFICATION SKYSCRAPER IN JAKARTA

MARCH - 8 - 2010

Second Place
2010 Skyscraper Competition

Rezza Rahdian, Erwin Setiawan, Ayu Diah

Shanti, Leonardus Chrisnantyo
Indonesia

The city of Jakarta, Indonesia, was originally designed in the confluence of thirteen rivers which were used for transportation and agriculture. The largest of its rivers is The Ciliwung River, which has been extremely polluted during the last couple of decades, characterizes by hundreds of slums inhabited by thousands of people in marginal conditions.

The Ciliwung Recovery Program (CRP) is a project that aims to collect the garbage of the riverbank and purify its water through an ingenious system of mega-filters that operate in three different phases. The first one separates the different types of garbage and utilizes the organic one to fertilize its soil. The second phase purifies the water by removing dangerous chemicals and adding important minerals to it. The clean water is then fed to the river and to the nearby agricultural fields through a system of capillary tubes. Finally in the third phase all the recyclable waste is processed.

One of the most important aspects of this proposal is the elimination of the slums along the river. The majority of the people will live and work at the CRP which could be understood as new city within Jakarta. The CRP project will be a 100 percent sustainable building that will produce energy through wind, solar, and hydroelectric systems.

Passage & Images from: http://www.evolo.us/competition/water-purification-skyscraper-in-jakarta/

California Academy of Sciences

Renzo Piano demonstrates a mastery of light throughout his work. At the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, he exhibits the same care lighting a museum of the natural world as he has in lighting some of the world's finest art collections. In addition to demonstrating Piano's aesthetic and technical artistry, the new Academy building exemplifies deep sensitivity to site and environment. This great building recently received LEED Platinum certification, and won a silver-level Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction in 2005.

Light Pavilion
In the 1970s, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers revolutionized how people viewed museums with the Centre George Pompidou in Paris. Piano again sets a precedent in the museum world with a large-scale project that emphasizes "green" design. This 410,000-square-foot (38,000-square-meter) building, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop with local partner Stantec Architecture (formerly Chong Partners Architecture), provides a new home for the California Academy of Sciences — a combined aquarium, planetarium, natural history museum, and scientific research institution.

The new Academy building is an elegant pavilion structure with a living roof that appears to float over skinny steel supports. At the building's center is a glass-roofed piazza. The overall design is marked by open, flexible exhibit spaces with sight lines to the surrounding park. Using light as a primary element of design, Piano shines away any dark stereotype of a natural history museum with dim musty halls cloistering insular scientists. Even the glass chosen for the project, with a low iron content to maximize transparency, aptly supports the museum's mission of exploring, explaining, and preserving the natural world. The high-performance glass transmits daylight to most occupied spaces while also minimizing heat gain. Piano's extensive use of glass also serves as a reminder of nature's inherent fragility.

Post-Earthquake Opportunity
The California Academy of Sciences was founded in 1853, the first such scientific institution in the West. It moved to Golden Gate Park in 1916, growing over the next 60 years to encompass an expanding program and a cluster of 12 interdependent structures. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake significantly damaged some of the structures, with Bird Hall and the Steinhart Aquarium suffering the most damage. After considering repair and seismic retrofitting of the complex, the Academy's board of trustees in 1999 decided to instead build a single, sustainable new building on the Golden Gate Park site. Renzo Piano appeared at the selection interview alone, armed with only a green marker and a sincere desire to understand the organization's mission. After contemplating the existing buildings from the steps of the nearby de Young Museum and taking in the view from the roof of the Academy, Piano sketched a sinuous roofline that echoed the hilly topography of San Francisco. With this design concept he clinched the deal for the project. To allow for demolition and construction to occur, the Academy moved to a small temporary home near downtown for four years.

Raising the Plane
The Academy project called for integrating the many functions of the previous 12-building facility into a coherent whole. Piano started with the elegant concept of a pavilion that blends seamlessly into the park setting. He has described the museum as "cutting the ground plane of a park and lifting it 38 feet [12 meters] into the air." The undulating roof is planted with nine species of native California plants, which are expected to attract native wildlife. Accessible via elevator, the 2.5-acre (one-hectare) roof also serves as a living classroom, providing a forum for educating visitors about sustainable design and California's ecosystems.

The slopes of the "hills" on the roof draw cool air into the central plaza area and then naturally ventilate the surrounding exhibition spaces. Mechanized skylights open and close to regulate the accumulation of heat inside the building over the course of the day. Natural light reaches the living rainforest inside and the coral reef beneath it. Energy usage at the new Academy is expected to be 30 to 35 percent less than that of a typical building its size. Contributing to that are the six inches (15 centimeters) of soil on the living roof, which insulate the building, keeping interior temperatures ten degrees Fahrenheit (six degrees Celsius) cooler than a conventional roof. The soil is also expected to absorb 98 percent of stormwater, keeping approximately 3.6 million gallons (13.6 million liters) of runoff annually from flowing into the nearby Pacific Ocean.
The border of the pavilion is covered by 60,000 photovoltaic cells that will generate five to ten percent of the energy needed for the building's operation.

New Structure, Old Elements
In the words of Kang Kiang, the former project manager with Chong Partners, the museum design can be described as a "table" that rests on the "legs" of four similarly proportioned pavilions. In between the pavilions on all four sides of the building are curtain walls that ease navigation through the interior. A network of tension cables, described by Piano as a spider web, is connected to a ring truss that secures the building structurally. In the event of an earthquake, all the glass pieces of the plaza's ceiling have been designed with patch fitting to move six inches (15 centimeters) in any direction without breaking. The reinforced concrete walls that support the four pavilion "legs" provide shear walls for the transfer of horizontal forces.

The "leg" on the northeast side of the building preserves two limestone walls from African Hall, a Beaux-Arts-style structure built in 1934. Inside, the building's popular dioramas and ceiling details were painstakingly reproduced from the original. A new space at the far end of the hall houses a colony of live African penguins. Between the pavilions on the south side of the building, new neoclassical columns recalling those of the original Steinhart Aquarium frame the alligator tank, where original tiles and a bronze seahorse railing also preserve some of the character of the previous facility. On the southeast side of the museum, a Foucault pendulum dating to 1951 has been restored to its original glory and stands next to the state-of-the-art planetarium.

Green to the Bones
While only two walls from the old Academy building were integrated into the new structure, little of the demolition waste was wasted: over 90 percent was recycled or reused. And recycled materials permeate the new building. The structural steel contains 95 percent recycled content; the concrete contains 30 percent fly ash and 20 percent slag, both industrial by-products; and the insulation was made from recycled denim. At least half of the wood in the new Academy is Forest Stewardship Council-certified as sustainably harvested, and one fifth of the building materials were manufactured within 500 miles (805 kilometers).

Other green features include HVAC heat recovery systems, reverse osmosis humidification systems, operable windows in staff offices, and photosensor-controlled artificial lights. Low-flow fixtures and the use of reclaimed water from the City of San Francisco are expected to reduce overall potable water use by 78 percent.

Lively Exhibits
The design team has skillfully woven history, live exhibits featuring 38,000 organisms, and interactive displays that can change as quickly as scientific knowledge itself. Two 90-foot- (27-meter-) diameter domes flank the central piazza. To the east is the Morrison Planetarium dome, with a high-definition projection system and the ability to run a live feed from NASA. To the west is the rainforest dome, in which live exhibits imitate the rainforest ecosystems of Borneo, Madagascar, Costa Rica, and the Amazon. The walkways winding around the interior of the four-story glass dome have such tight curves that a roller coaster company was brought on board as a consultant to perfect the design. From the first floor of the dome, an elevator takes visitors to a tunnel-shaped aquarium representing a flooded forest floor in the Amazon.

Below the ground floor, visitors will find the new Steinhart Aquarium, designed by Thinc and Urban A&O with an emphasis on tactile, sculptural spaces that create the impression of exploring underwater landscapes. The Academy now boasts the deepest coral aquarium in the world, with a 210,000-gallon (795,000-liter) tank that houses a recreated Philippine ecosystem. Part of this exhibit features a crawl hole that leads to a 360-degree bulb, simulating the experience of scuba diving for visitors. This living museum not only provides a safe haven for the Academy's precious cargo of over 20 million specimens, and modern facilities for its research department, but also places its team of scientists in direct contact with museum visitors. The public can view actual lab research through a glass wall on the building's ground floor, and can see into office spaces above the entry hall to the aquarium. The museum itself is also used as a teaching tool about sustainability, with displays explaining the behind-the-scenes features and functions of the building. Renzo Piano says he hopes the new California Academy of Sciences facility will communicate to many generations to come that life on earth is at once beautiful, awe-inspiring, and tremendously fragile.

by Rachel Grossman

Rachel Grossman writes about travel, fine arts, architecture, and interior design from San Francisco. She holds a graduate degree in modern art history from the Courtauld Institute.

Project Credits
USGBC's California Academy of Sciences LEED score sheet (PDF)
Architecture: Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Genoa, Italy, and Stantec Architecture, San Francisco, CA (formerly Chong Partners Architecture) Project Manager and Owner Rep: DR Young Associates, San Rafael, CA Engineering and Sustainability: Arup, San Francisco, CA, and Teecom Design Group, Oakland, CA General Contractor: Webcor Builders, San Mateo, CA Landscape Architecture: SWA Group, Sausalito, CA Living Roof Consultants: Rana Creek Living Architecture, Carmel Valley, CA Planetarium Technical Consultant: Visual Acuity, Brighton, England

Passage From :

http://www.architectureweek.com/2008/1112/environment_1-1.html

Image From :

http://www.architectureweek.com/2008/1112/environment_1-1.html

http://rawartint.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/

http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/07/28/california-academy-of-sciences-green-roof/

Gardens in The Sky

A first look at Libeskind’s Madison Square Park tower

New York’s Madison Square Park is the latest place to go ogling some of the city’s newest skyscrapers. Cetra Rudy and OMA have each designed new towers on the park. Now the area is to get a forward-looking gleaming glass and green residential tower designed by Studio Libeskind, with spiraling gardens in the sky. The dramatic 54-storey tower will sit atop a 14-storey masonry structure that is an annex for the Metropolitan Life building, making it the city’s tallest residential tower.

The design of the building was kept under wraps until recently when it was made public on the Architects Newspaper Blog, which scanned the images to the web from Daniel Libeskind’s new monograph. While the design of the New York Tower is in the embryonic stage, Libeskind said the following today via statement: “The design features a series of spiraling gardens extending the green of Madison Square along the facade of the tower. The tower is set back from its neighbors—maintaining views and maximizing light and air.” "We look forward to a continuing dialogue when the proposal enters the public review process”, he added.

Sharon McHugh

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10832

Huaxi City Centre

Experimental Urban Vision
Huaxi City Centre
Guiyang, South Western China

Eleven young architects collaborate to design high-density urban nature in China.

Atelier Manferdini (USA), BIG (Denmark), Dieguez Fridman (Argentina), Emergent/Tom Wiscombe (USA), Hou Liang Architecture (China), JDS (Denmark/Belgium), MAD (China), Mass Studies (Korea), Rojkind Arquitectos (Mexico), Serie (UK/India), Sou Fujimoto Architects (Japan). In 2008, MAD organized and invited 11 young international architects to carry out an urban experiment to design the Huaxi city center of Guiyang, in South Western China.The Masterplan was developed by Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning and Design Institute, Studio 6, together with MAD.

In the past 15 years, around 10 billion square meters of built space has been created in the urban areas of China. In 20 years time, another 200 to 400 new cities will be built. Until now, the results of this overwhelming urbanization have been defined by high-density, high-speed and low-quality duplication making the urban space meaningless, crowded and soulless.Is there an alternative future for our cities that lies in the current social condition, where new technologies leavethe machine age behind, and where the city increasingly invades the natural space?

Passage from: http://www.arcspace.com/architects/11/11.html

Images from: http://www.arcspace.com/architects/11/11.html

Images Courtesy by MAD

Lilypad - A Floating Ecopolis Architecture

The climate is changing and not in the good way as the global warming will affect large areas on Earth. One of the repercussions is that the ocean level will increase very much because the ice caps of Antarctic and Greenland, and the glaciers in the mainland will melt. Also, you should know that under warm temperatures the water expands therefore the oceans will rise a lot.

Scientists made some research about how the global warming interacts with the increase of ocean levels and they got to the conclusion that with every 1°C the ocean level will rise with 1 meter and according to their estimations, Netherlands, Bangladesh and the atoll Majuro in Oceania (Marshall and Kiribati islands, and the Maldives islands) will be the most affected. The former with 6% of ground loss, the second with 17.5% and the latter with almost an unbelievable rate of 80%. Also, many other countries like Vietnam and Egypt will be devastated by floods and the crops will be ruined by the salt water.

According to a climatological study of the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), if we won’t take any measures there will be 250 million of climatic refugees and 9% of the GDP will be threatened. Although most of the governments of developing countries aren’t taking any measures, there are some interesting projects that could be a solution for the rising of the ocean levels.

One of these is the Lilypad which is a prototype of auto-sufficient amphibious city and it was designed by architect Vincent Callebaut. The Lilypad project is actually a floating ecopolis that will provide housing for a large crowd of climate refugees therefore will be the solution in case of worldwide ecological crisis.

Lilypad consists of a new biotechnological prototype and was designed for nomadism as it will travel on the water line of the oceans, all the way from the equator to the poles thanks to two marine streams: warm ascending of the Gulf Stream and the cold descending of the Labrador.

The Lilypad is an amphibian (half aquatic and half terrestrial) city which will house about 50,000 inhabitants and will enable life in the heart of the subaquatic depths. This ecopolis will be “covered by a stratum of planted housing in suspended gardens and crossed by a network of streets and alleyways with organic outline” that will “create a harmonious coexistence of the couple Human / Nature”.

Inspired by the lilypad of Amazonia Victoria Regia, this floating ecopolis will be made of polyester fibres and covered by a layer of titanium dioxide (TiO2). The Lilypad City will made use of all renewable energies - solar, thermal and photovoltaic energies, wind energy, hydraulic, tidal power station, osmotic energies, phytopurification, biomass will produce much more energy than it consumes and also, the floating structure will “reach” zero carbon emissions as all the carbon-dioxide and the waste will be recycled.

Lilypad is a visionary structure and it’s one of the major challenges of the 21st century. This self-sustainable floating ecopolis will prove to be very important as the Earth is warming and the ocean level is rising so much. Hopefully, Lilypad will become a living dream because there will be many ecological refugees that will need it.

Passage : www.madarchitect.org.super-structures/lilypad-a-floating-ecopolis-for-climate-refugees/

Images : www.madarchitect.org.super-structures/lilypad-a-floating-ecopolis-for-climate-refugees/