2015

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Towards the Concept
In the 20th century many architectural theories considering infinite energy were developed. Concepts like “City of Tomorrow” intended to reform the way people live, to set up the new parameters in the designing process, and to decide what the population need. These ideas often respond to the needs of human life and the desired comfort of living at the moment projected. However, going back to the fundamentals of building, settlements were first created where climatic and geographic conditions were most favorable. The challenge lies in responding to the needs of the population at all times, developing the urban environment sustainably with the possibility to evolve. The aim throughout this study is to explore ways to create an environment that encourages and supports life inside of it, going back to the fundamentals of life, offering what life on earth needed, needs and will need. Using and empowering the forces of nature, an inhabitable area will turn into an oasis, generating a timeless habitat with the ideal conditions for life.

A Livable Habitat in the Desert
The starting point of reasoning is complicated in such an inhospitable territory as the Sahara’s. It is a place of extremes where the natural rules are defined intensively. The days are hot, often reaching 38°C. During the night the atmosphere cools down quickly because of the lack of insulating cloud cover. The project is based on the appropriation of the inhospitable territory by using the forces of nature, being the fundamentals for life. The exploration of creating a sustainable ecosystem, making the life possible, is done within a fundamental shape in architecture: the cube.