Biosafety Tech Company Achieves World Changing Idea Award
An IoT-enabled disinfection technology company has been named in Fast Company's 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards. R-Zero's intelligent biosafety platform...
Read Full ArticleThe winners of the 2022 Skyscraper Competition, one of the world’s most prestigious awards for high-rise architecture, have been announced.
Entrants are asked to consider the following:
Architects, students, engineers, and designers collectively submitted 427 projects. The Jury selected 3 winners and 20 honourable mentions from this list.
Climate Control Skyscraper, a series of structures that can modify weather conditions that would improve the global climate crisis, was named the overall winner of the 2022 Skyscraper Competition.
The concept aims to stop desertification, rising temperatures, and natural disasters with a gigantic above-sea skyscraper. Anchored through subsea trusses, cloud seeds, chemical catalysts, and human resources are imported through ports accessible in all directions. They also export sodium chloride and ionic substances obtained by electrolyzing seawater.
Power is supplied by a solar panel roof and a wind pressure generator on the lower level of the building, and electricity is generated through water vapour moving upwards and passing through a wind pressure generator.
Picture: an image showing the structures that make up the Climate Control Skyscraper concept. Image Credit: eVolo magazine
A laboratory inside the tower transmits meteorological observation information to the control ring through communication with the CCT Weather satellite, which is floating in space.
The creators, Kim Gyeong Jeung, Min Yeong Gi, and Yu Sang Gu from South Korea would like to set up Climate Control Towers in countries around the world, eliminating the threat of disasters caused by heavy rainfalls by getting rid of clouds.
Wang Jue, Zhang Qian, Zhang Changsheng, Li Muchun, and Xu Jing from China were awarded second place for Tsunami Park, a skyscraper built along Tonga’s long and narrow coastline to reduce the biological and ecological damage caused by a tsunami.
The designers wanted to reframe “the catastrophic nature of the tsunami into a gift from nature to mankind” using buildings. They even envisage that the higher platforms of the building will become a safe place to watch a tsunami.
Using the “edge wave effect” of tsunamis, the Tsunami Park structure is designed to dissipate these natural disasters when it has not yet inundated a city.
Picture: an image showing the interior of Tsunami Park, showing people travelling on small boats. Image Credit: eVolo magazine
Inspired by the mangroves whose root systems naturally mitigate the effect of tsunamis, this skyscraper consists of a single unit aggregated to form a vast complex along the coastline. Each cell consists of a bottom pillar and a top multi-level platform. The bottom pillar is made up of thick concrete columns that form a porous structure to dissipate the force of the tsunami.
This skyscraper also has a “disaster state” where the upper part of the building functions to absorb the waves of a tsunami. Each level of the building has a water cistern, and the absorbed water is transferred through columns to an underground desalination area for treatment.
In third place is “New Spring”, a structure that aims to stimulate biodiversity.
Designed by Michał Spólnik from Austria and Marcin Kitala from Poland, the structure is inspired by the global lack of crop diversity’s threat to global food and nutrition security.
This striking building is a set of garden modules, each belonging to a particular biome, containing distinct flora, soil, microorganisms, small animals, and microclimate.
With the modules are experimental proto-gardens, which bring together plants that do not co-exist in the natural environment. It is hoped that through this, new crop solutions and adaptations can be found.
Picture: an image showing the New Spring structure, in the middle of a crop field. Image Credit: eVolo magazine
One of the entries that received an honourable mention was Urban Condenser, a structure inspired by the migrant worker community of China.
Picture: an image showing the Urban Condenser community. Image Credit: eVolo magazine
Described as “a super community to stimulate social development” the space allows urban residents and migrant workers to intermingle, aiming to de-marginalise migrant workers who often feel displaced or unaccepted.
Main Picture: an image showing the exterior of Tsunami Park. Image Credit: eVolo magazine
All images are credited to eVolo magazine
Article written by Ella Tansley | Published 13 July 2022
An IoT-enabled disinfection technology company has been named in Fast Company's 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards. R-Zero's intelligent biosafety platform...
Read Full Article800 Fulton Market, a gateway to one of Chicago’s fastest-growing neighbourhoods, has been completed. Watch the...
Read Full ArticleIn something of a shock decision, Liverpool's new Everyman Theatre has won the coveted Stirling Prize and beaten the favourites - the LSE’s student centre in...
Read Full ArticleThe shortlist for the prestigious 2014 RIBA Stirling Prize for the best new building has been announced and ThisWeekinFM will be looking at each nominee (with thanks to...
Read Full Article14forty, Compass Group’s IFM business, has been named Highly Commended at the Global FM Awards of Excellence 2023 for its approach to workplace catering. The...
Read Full ArticleAlert Technology has won 2023’s Product Innovation Award for the Asbestos ALERT PRO Connected, the world’s first real-time airborne asbestos detector. The...
Read Full ArticleBDO’s M&A Managing Director and Head of Facilities Management Transactions Satvir Bungar has been named one of the top 100 leaders for his work in supporting...
Read Full ArticleShannon Sullivan from Rapport Guest Services at Addleshaw Goddard has been named as 2023’s Corporate Receptionist of the Year. ThisWeekinFM's Shannon Conway...
Read Full ArticleThisWeekinFM’s high-performing buildings roundup includes a cube-shaped skyscraper, a building based on a classic fairytale and one of the first UK new builds to...
Read Full ArticleFM service provider Inviron has been awarded a Highly Commended RoSPA award. The award is for demonstrating their dedication to ensuring staff, customers, clients and...
Read Full Article