AÑO
2019
CATEGORÍA
Comunidad
OBJETIVOS
Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
PAL. CLAVE
urban acupuncture, informal settlements, Atmospheric water generator
PAÍS
United Arab Emirates
CRÉDITOS
Camilo Cerro is an architectural researcher, author and design thinker. He earned his Master of Architecture (M.Arch1) degree at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he was the recipient of the William Kinne Memorial Fellowship. With twenty years of professional practice in the fields of the Architecture, Interior, Product and Furniture design as the founder and principal of Dharmatecture LLC in Brooklyn, New York. And five years of academic experience in Design Education, of which the last four have been spent as a full time faculty, teaching across undergraduate programs of Architecture and Interior Design at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.
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WORKING TOWARDS DESIGN SOLUTIONS FOR THE WATER AND NUTRITION CRISIS OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS.
Self-sufficient atmospheric water generating and vertical farm, urban acupuncture intervention
According to the World Water Assessment Program, today, half the world’s population lives in urban areas. Because of this, many of the world cities are growing exponentially and unchecked urban sprawl is spawning areas that lack water infrastructure. The objective of this project is the development of water and produce (food) generating facilities to be implemented as independent, self-sufficient interventions (urban acupuncture) within impoverished communities. The idea is to stablish a network of interdependent facilities that could be placed around the informal settlements creating a series of interventions that function more as acupuncture than urban development making of it by its own nature a financially feasible proposal designed to directly serve a large number of people through architectural elements that require minimal maintenance and the possibility of creating local jobs while helping solve the water and food crisis in informal settlements around the developing world.