SCoopA, Solutions- Expo Milano Competition 2015
Teamwork with Nakisa Dehpanah
Nowadays, desertification has become a great problem for all the governments around the world. Unfortunately, Over one third of the world's land surface (38 percent) is threatened with desertification. Meanwhile, we are facing the problem of overpopulation. The Green Desert project provides a multilaterul solution, which introduces desert as a habitat for people and confront with the increasing of desertification.
Iran is located in the Middle East and its geological features were studied by many researchers. Desert land forms cover twenty-five percent of Iran’s area. Dasht-e Lut and Dasht-e Kavir are Iran largest deserts. The Lut Desert is one of the largest playas in Iran and includes a great diversity of hydro-aeolian processes with a very interesting pattern of yardang landforms. In this project, we designed a set of cities in Yardang landforms and considered natural energy resources - sunlight, geothermal and wind power- as the basic energy resources to meet the resident’s needs. In this project, we designed a set of cities in Yardang landforms and considered natural energy resources - sunlight, geothermal and wind power- as the basic energy resources to meet the resident’s needs. In desert areas and especially in soft lands, the soil is drifted which results in the formation of small hills and long elongated furrows called Yardang. Yardangs occupy most part of the western of the central Lut.
Transportation System: Three wheels orbiting by the weight of the water moving from top to down while people are using wheels to transport between different levels of the city. The water which comes from the qanat and other sources moves through the structures in to the blocks. This process not only decreases the tempreture difference between inside and outside and impedes energy waste, but also makes the complex cooler. These three gear wheels’ movements are dependent to each other. Each of them moves through hydrolic system and functions as the transportation system.
At night, the central part of the roof move toward the sides. Meanwhile, the blocks which are closer to the roof move to the sides through the rails located beneath the floors.This process creats us a great opportunity to use night cooling process. In this process the sky of the night is considered as black material which absorbs all the heats created in the complex during the day. Finally, the heat in the complex will be substituted for the cool air existed in the desert at night.