'take smoke makes water' project by cienm2//100m2 architecture
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cienm2//100m2 architecture have won first prize for their 'take smoke makes water'
project as part of the reinvent cities competition. young architects, engineers
and landscape designers were given the opportunity to develop projects with 5 proposed
topics; mobility, resources, wastes, communication and flood management systems
for the competition.

every year about 20 thousand people die in the most important cities, because of pollution,
this corresponds to 6% of all deaths, and 1.7% of central GDP in treating diseases.
in poor countries about 1 billion people live without access to water, which corresponds
to 46.6% of urban population;

smog in large cities = (sulfuric acid) H2SO4
acid rain = (carbon dioxide) H2CO3

H2SO4 - H2O (water) = no smog reaction
H2CO3 – CO2 (carbon dioxide) = H2O (water)

cienm2//100m2 architecture concept 'take smoke, makes water' is a triple set of interventions
defined by a logic of sustainable energy in social-urban action, relative to 3 scale levels (S, M, L).
the strategy of occupation (or settling) of the site is generated from the location of the new
nucleuses of clean areas.

the location follows a logic of density and multiplicity of the population and social advice;
this means that the position or the number of interventions depends on the capacity of the users
proposed, more number of users, more number of nucleuses and / or combination among them.
the idea is to generate an 'active skin' composed of chemical filters that function as catalysts caught
caught-smog in conducting their internal reactions that clean air and recovery water, which is
transmitted to the medium in the form of vapor water or simple condensed potable water.
this skin is applicable to multiple types of buildings and works according to three logical
situations; overlap saturation and osmosis.

reaction: H2SO4 pass through filter = H2O
overlap: proposes the installation of an autonomous element which feeds back with his close
radius of action, work as an implant in social-environmental emergency situations. saturation:
elements of metropolitan character with high capacity filter of H2SO4. osmosis: insertion
microclimates located on high density, small-scale urban projects.

at the same time, the intervention proposes an image that generates identity with the
environment; 'weather logic' will do the nucleuses into elements of changeable aspect; it
is a process that emulates the succession of living systems and his unpredictable action.


'take smoke makes water' - evaporating smog
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'take smoke makes water' project
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'take smoke makes water' project - chemical filters
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'take smoke makes water' project
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'take smoke makes water' project
image courtesy cienm2//100m2 architecture