14 Degrees of Separation: Can Elasticity Stretch the Climate

Designing Matter, Energy and sustainability, Essay, IAAC, IaaC, Low Density

Climate, Climate control, Cooling climate device, Energy consumption, Environment, Flexibility, Living system, material, Material experimentation, Optimized living, Project, Self-sufficiency, Strategies, Structure, Temperature, Thermal, Thermal comfort, Ventilation, Water

14 Degrees of Separation is a project of IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) developed for the Master in Advanced Architecture MAA01 in 2020 by Deniz Akyürek, Rani Kamel and Stefana Zapuc and by the Self-Sufficient Studio faculty Edouard Cabay, Peter Geelmuyden Magnus and Oana Taut.

If self-sufficient architecture is self-providing and autonomous, the project ’14 Degrees of Separation’ aims to research the following question: Can elasticity stretch the climate?

In hot and humid climates, ventilation strategies are responsible for significant proportions of energy consumption. Set in such extreme environments, the project aims at designing a new way of achieving self-sufficient thermal regulation and thus, a new way of living.