Arctic Onion | Resilient Envelopes – IAAC BLOG

Team member(s): Jackie Williams, Ruhani Adlakha, Mariano Rodriguez Alonso and Laila Nabulsi
Modified by Jackie Williams on March 14, 2023

– Material Catalogue : Collecting & Cataloguing materials around Valldaura; Simulating real-time construction process of procuring material from waste sources.
– 1:20 Model of Weather & Cluster Shelf Envelopes

– Multiple Layers of the Weather Envelope: Wind Turbines, Water Channels & Raincoat
– Front Elevation: Raincoat of the building made of Upcycled Sails & Fabrics

– Cluster Shelves : Seasonal Facade stacked with Hay Bales during Winter for additional insulation as well as food for the Sheep cohabiting in the building
– Weather Envelope wraps around and becomes a tensegrity system on the roof

Resilient Envelopes – Heat Core, Sleeping Shelves, Cluster Shelves & Weather Envelope

Tags: Ecological Buildings, Material: Metal, Material: Wood, Climate Change, Adaptive

Arctic Onion | Resilient Envelopes is a project of IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed in the Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings & Biocities 01 - 2022-2023 by the student(s) Jackie Williams, Ruhani Adlakha, Mariano Rodriguez Alonso and Laila Nabulsi during the course MAEBB01 22/23 Resilient Envelopes with Miquel Rodríguez.