Double Earth | without pre-conception studio | Winning Idea | 2016

About Without Pre-conception Studio

The project was designed during a course which called ’without pre-conceptions studio’ in  Contemporary Architects Association in Iran-Tehran 2016-2015. The final project was a competition between students and subject was Movable Agricultural Platform for the cities and building the winner idea was the prize of this competition.

Recreating green spaces which has ability to provide cultivate while it also can solve ownership of the land issues in the big cities, was the idea behind the competition. 

The Double Earth concept has suggested and technically solved by me in first phase of the studio and it has chosen as winner project. Other students joined to designing process during construction design and built. 

Why?

At the rate we're going, we are already using up the available resources of 1 ½ Earths, even though this planet is all we have at the moment. Unless we can find another Earth where we can move half of our 7 billion populatior. It's obvious that we are usina up our finite supply of resources. The effect of a growing population will be an increased demand for resources and space. Both of which we are runnina out of. The earth just can't keep up with us and our habit of wastage is not helping. A billion planets need enough space, on the other hand, The current world population of 7.2 billion is projected to increase by 1 billion over the next 12 years and reach 9.6 billion by 2050, according to a United Nations report launched recently, which points out that growth will be mainly in developing countries, with more than half in Africa.

Double Earth is trying to expand green spaces in cities, and also create different shape and organization to deal with variety of texts in an urban context. A mobile spatial device. a small farm on wheels for urban farmina and civic events and activities associated with it

Concept 

The main idea of the proiect was about a line and how it can transform to a surface. Due to the part of the brief which asked for a mobile device, shape of the line was chosen because it needs to move on the street, and for creating space, it needs to transform the shape to a surface and this ability provided a huge range of shape and organization of space for different context.

Video made on 2015

How? 

Dividing a big surface to smaller pieces provide transformation between line and surface. But In this step, designing joint and connection between pieces was challenging part of designing. Three different alternative were examined and last one was the answer of this question. 

Prototypes

The idea has chosen as winner and other students joined project for construction and I as leader has focused to the solve the mechanical challenges. Due to the complexity of structure, we were indeed to examine different ways to find the best approach. We made three prototypes which you can see in below.