Pools, Pyramid, Towers, Pits: Reterritorializing Post-Volcanic Pompeii towards Thermal Energy Capture

The disjunctive synthesis that we saw in the previous steps can also be analyzed within a site area in the different densities analyzed above. In these cases we see less overlapping or encounters between organisms, leaving more free spaces.

Tthe final project, being the highest density, is understood as a more or less dense post disastropolis depending on the sector. It has the particularity of generating different types of pools for different uses, favoring people at the time of the disaster, with closed but at the same time open spaces with a great contrast between inside and outside. The site acts towards a phenomenon such as ashfall or pyroclastic flow. It can be seen in the sequence of cuts, as once the ash arrives, it is deposited on the external surfaces of the city, allowing citizens to take refuge inside the pyramids. Then, with the arrival of the pyroclastic, the amphitheaters that allow the collection of this material, and being a hot fluid cannot be slowed down, people can climb the various overhangs waiting for the flow to enter and be deposited in the pyramids. Finally in the visualization you can see the main idea of the city and its materialities. How this project could be built using volcanic ash as a material. Also, the difference between inside and outside, being inside a more humid, light blue space, and outside a drier and gray place.

The organisms within the site work together once they are combined. These combinations are formed in parts. In the first step the fire pyramids are adapted to the earth channels forming new pyramids, also all of the same height. Then, these pyramids are related to the existing buildings in Pompeii today, where they adapt to the heights of the buildings, leaving room for them. The interior of these pyramids which were in contact with the amphitheaters of earth are transformed into a stepped interior adapted to the shape of the base of the pyramid. Then arise the rainwater basins, which are located at the top of the pyramids, which are cut according to the size of the basin, to benefit the capture of water. The pyramids that are joined by the basins are the cases where the biggest flows of water were on the street, and in this way it is captured. On the other hand are the thermal pools, which are also found in certain sectors of the site, these are distributed at two different heights of the pyramid and inside forming a cascade, leaving the zero level free. Then the air organisms form part of the water, opening a face between the cantilevered basins, leaving room for the cascade.

The air towers then adapt to the site, leaving free space for the streets, and begin to form part of the pyramids to ventilate these interior spaces. And finally the air towers adapt their height to that of their adjacent pyramid to form part of the new height of the city and to be able to capture more air.

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