Hank: Nomadic communities

Nomadic communities, as the named suggested, are future communities that will respond to dramatic changing climate. Human societies had exerted a great impact on the environment that the climate may behave in a way that people would not be able to learn. So, it would be a great challenge and opportunity for architects and designers to design in order for us to deal with that situation. In terms of the how the building could be adaptive, one of the proposal is that all the communities are designed with ability to travel across different regions according to the local climate. The urban connection will be less in the control of human beings: most of the land might be filled with ice; or all the ice on earth might melt causing the sea level to rise up 80 meters. In light of that, travel communities really help people to communicate even with the very bad weather. In terms of structure and circulation, the main structure and the main circulation are designed in the central core of the building. People can reach every community in the building through the vertical transportations. Also, each unit could be rotated alone the center of the structure, which allow the building to response to the nature: the communities could line up to shade each other in extreme hot weather and they could fully expanded to receive maximum sunlight when the weather is too freezing. Whenever the weather conditions go beyond people’s toleration, the community could easily travel to a more comfortable region to live as we mentioned above.
For the competition, what I still need to work on is the living space in each community. As the reviewers said: I need to show more varieties of the units. Also, how I can show the “travel” idea in diagram would be crucial. I personally learned a lot in this term. The process of design: when we started from paper folding to grasshopper sun shading design and then to the idea of the project. It was very connected and coherence. It would help me in the future design with the process of thinking.