Project for eVolo skyscraper competition, 2013. With Piotr Blicharski, Michał Głowienka, Marek Wojda.
Statement:
In recent times many regions in the world suffer from drought caused by dynamic climate change or natural resources overuse.. Vast number of indigenous communities around our planet are now facing the risk of vanishing. Water shortage is one of the main reason forcing them to abandon their traditional lifestyle and migrate in search of work out of their homelands. Although this phenomenon occurs on every continent, in most of places efficient sustainable solution of collecting water from fog can be provided.
Nepal shows up as an outstanding country in amount of diversity of indigenous cultures threatened by water shortage. At the same time frontier of Himalaya mountains gives perfect conditions for fog harvesting in order to provide clean water resources. For most of people living in the lower mountains of Nepal their socio-economic conditions are dependable on terrace agriculture but only half of the rural areas are irrigated .
Proposed Sky-Well Tower is located on a hilltops of Himalaya’s mountains frontier collect clean water from fog. The architectural intervention brings silence for local communities and becomes sustainable adaptation to climate changes.
Nepal shows up as an outstanding country in amount of diversity of indigenous cultures threatened by water shortage. At the same time frontier of Himalaya mountains gives perfect conditions for fog harvesting in order to provide clean water resources. For most of people living in the lower mountains of Nepal their socio-economic conditions are dependable on terrace agriculture but only half of the rural areas are irrigated .
Proposed Sky-Well Tower is located on a hilltops of Himalaya’s mountains frontier collect clean water from fog. The architectural intervention brings silence for local communities and becomes sustainable adaptation to climate changes.
Each tensegrity construction made of wooden bars and metal tendon is layered by modular pieces of membrane. Idea of construction gives porosity to the cylindrical tower in order to allow humid airs penetration. Moreover, structure is a mix of locally crafted bars and high-tech membranes. Foundations create a water tank which hilltop’s location doesn’t require additional pumps to transport water to surrounding village. Most of native people would carry home clean water by foot from distant places. Described combination gives ability to produce and transport 500 liters of clean water each day out of each 80 square meters of cylindrical shape tower in the monsoon season and half of this amount during the dry season.
Sky-Well Towers appears as a completely new architectural form among local cultures. People adopt it and benefit from local crafts and high-techs synergy as a sustainable and efficient architectural development. Thank to the towers threatened position of native communities can become now reversed into strong relation with homeland and agriculture to help them flourish and spread into new areas.
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