Kombaopolis: Translation of Kinetic Waves, Dancing with Disaster

In the disaster sequences the phenomenon of the earthquake is observed affecting the city. In Kompaopolis earthquake means ritual, an event that happens without warning, and shakes the city, from top to bottom in the low buildings, from one side to the other in the high buildings. Here we can see a render of the city, with its colourful palette and the planes around the water flows.Here we can see images of the final project, and the physical model, that shows a zoom of the “panel language” city, that not only can generate gradients of wind, sun and humidification conditions, but also generates ambiguous spaces that are not fully open or not fully closed, and also variable sized panels that can be smalls shaders or land subdivisions, or huge covers and giant walls.

In the case of Haiti, the matrix displays the encounters between agencies, in order to understand possible project potentialities generated by the overlapping. Here we observe the encounters between land and water organisms, and air and water organisms. Then between land and air, and between air and air.

Then between fire and fire, and finally earth and fire.

For the synthesis in the whole city, we proceed first to superimpose all the devices. Then the encounters between land and water bodies are updated by scaling the sides of the corresponding crosses. The encounters between land and air take into account whether they intersect or not. Where they do not intersect, connections are generated that act as structural supports for the windstoppers. Then, both the windstoppers and the parasols become thick and habitable, so as to generate, by means of their intersection, habitable plans elevated above the ground. Finally, the ground organisms are updated to support the parasols that do not intersect the windstoppers. In the case of Haiti, the project distributes this series of organisms in order to optimize the functions of each one, the ability to bounce, to deflect the wind, to block the sun, and to humidify the environment. Foundations are distributed to optimize earthquake response through varying heights and sizes. Earth: the strata of the earth presents a topography crossed by a series of hills, with the main elevation standing out in the center of the topography. The coding consists of a grid that becomes denser as a function of slope. This grid distributes devices of varying size, in response to the different transmission of seismic waves as a function of slope. As a general rule, taller buildings respond better to the low seismic frequencies distributed where there is less slope, and lower buildings resist better to the high frequencies, generated in places with greater slope.

The density of this grid is variable, and in this spread three different densities are displayed that follow the same distribution pattern.