2018 EVOLO SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION

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Message Architecture

In Subtle Dimension

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Competition

Architecture

Thesis Design

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2018

According to The Post-Carbon concept developed in “The Third Industrial Revolution” by Jeremy Rifkin, which indicates that before the carbon resource went out, humankind needs to establish a new way of living, to face and improve various phenomena happening in the future. However, through all kinds of environmental changing theses, we found the fundamental issue is that we are not “aware” how severe the crises have been.

After researched on behavior of awareness, we divided the process of awareness into four stages and applied to this design, which called“The Perception Builder”:

1.Aware:Noticing and knowing that something exists.

2.Conscious:Being awake and able to understand what is happening around you.

3.Cognizant:Knowledgeable of something especially through personal experience.

4.Mindful:Bearing in mind and inclined to be practical.

We used the concept of The Perception Builder to convert to the procedure of this design. Through the angle of subtle dimension, we are trying to challenge and criticize the lifestyles and habits we have which bring negative impacts to the environment, and searching for the possibility to self-saving in the way of life.

Amount all the environment issues caused by last twice industrial revolution, Air Pollution is the most fatal and unavoidable crisis.

According to WHO: 90% of population are influenced by the air pollution all around the world. More than 6.5 million of people died in diseases which caused by air pollution every year. There are many types of air pollution, however, PM2.5 is the most lethality. They are the collection of the smallest size of dust. These sizes of particles can directly get into the pulmonary alveolus, cause the permanent damages. Except the danger to all the livings, these particles can also absorb lights and impact visibility.

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Took Beijing of China, as the background, we applied statistic to estimate the data of PM2.5 particles and analyzed when residents will be forced to evacuate, and no longer to live on the ground. In fact, we realized that according to the Air Quality Index, Beijing has already unlivable.Therefore, based on choosing the imagine site, we set the story under the circumstance that the Beijing government and all inhabitants couldn’t reduce and control the pollutant, and were confronted with shrinking survival space.

They must migrate habitat to another living space. We locate the site on 500m to 600m above the ground which is higher than the range that particles settled as sediments (under 400m) within troposphere.

We put the idea of Eco-village as a social system into our design, and separated as units based on different size of spaces. Every unit represent different function; Everyone has their own responsibility, cooperates as a collaborate system and should share benefits together.

With the collaborate system, it can self-supplying all materials and energy,

also creating possibility to continue their life on this floating city.

Application of Perception Builder-Intelligence Skin absorbs particles from the ground into the shall and reacts with Ultraviolet. Since the amount of particles will form a cover to hide some light, the more polluted the darker it gets, as it gets brighter, represents the particles on the ground have already reduced significantly. Besides, Intelligence Skin can also show the residents on the floating city that maybe one day in the future, we can once again habitat back to the ground where we belonged.

Through the procedures which developed from awareness,

we would like to deliver an idea that architecture can not only be just a

building or an object, however, it can be like the perception builder, express

messages of different aspects and eventually let people have various understandings of awareness.

This is a message architecture, we are trying to send a message through this architecture: Is it truly necessary that human beings make the situation even worse?