Sustainable project explorations. Application of mist collectors in the morphological composition of the architecture

Abstract

This article presents the progress made in the CIC Training Scholarship for University Students enrolled in the research project called "Sustainable Architectural Urban Formats in Vulnerable Contexts", LITPA-FAU-UNLP, which acted as a reference framework and exploratory scenario for the scholarship. In this context, the research carried out raised an advance in the analysis and development of the technology "Horizontal rain collector meshes", understanding them as a passive system being used as a condensing barrier, as a rainwater collector and as a temperature attenuator. . The studies carried out also implicated the meshes in the scale of the architectural project as a configurator of form, of language and as a sustainable propositional element.

It is from the above that formal sustainable strategies for individual and collective housing were explored in the floodplain sector of the Arroyo Maldonado, La Plata, visualizing the potential to produce scenarios that enable new forms of urbanization, new agro-residential formats and the construction of collective identities.

The resolutions presented arise from the exploration in architecture, setting alternatives that manage to expand the limit of possibilities, investigating the very functioning of the discipline. Thanks to the above, there is no single version of the architecture, much less what it should be today, giving way to a variety of solutions as wide as geographic areas, societies and people exist. The disciplinary particularity is proposed from project research as a way of renewing knowledge, incorporating various sustainable criteria as a necessity to address the basic problem.