This shift from the majority of water reliance placed on centralised desalination plants to dispersed natural water treatment processes and storage facilities will have many advantages. It will allow for minimised network spans and connections to prevent water loss, and provide increased emergency water reserves through a series of decentralised locations throughout the network. The fundamental properties of network organisation and metabolic flow will be symbiotically developed with the distribution and morphology of the urban environment. Driven by the requirements of the ecological processes, environmental analysis, and spatial patterns and social programmes abstracted from case studies, novel architectural and urban morphologies will be generated throughout the system. These arrangements will produce highly performative urban organisations capable of negotiating environmental conditions, managing hydrological flows, arranging infrastructural networks and creating complex spatial and microclimatic environments. This dynamic complex system places emphasis on the interactions and connectivity of the flows through its infrastructures, and on the feedbacks and critical thresholds that will drive the emergence of new morphologies social organisations and in response to the specific ecological, climatic and cultural modalities of the State of Qatar.
CONCLUSION
- Ecological Processes: Research into natural water treatment systems for use within an extremely arid and hot region such as Qatar established sets of data outlining treated water production capabilities, and the spatial implications of their morphological characteristics and coverage requirements. It presented the effects and advantages of dispersed natural water treatment systems within the context of Qatar and influenced strategies for ensuring their viability throughout the urban system. - Sociocultural Modalities: Through examination of regional case studies of Kerman, Iran and Shibam, Yemen, a system of analysis was developed to extract and quantify the cultural values and social parameters of sample tissues within their contexts. It established a catalogue of descriptive metrics and mathematics which expressed the sociocultural modalities of the region, and outlined culturally relevant and socially sensitive approaches for the system. - Climatic Conditions: The environmental qualities and sensory characteristics of Qatar’s climate were catalogued through the analysis of its humidity, temperature and solar exposure levels. These parameters drove aspects of solar accessibility and environmental comfort throughout the system to adapt to the specific challenges presented by its extreme climatic conditions. - Morphology: The allometric development of morphologies throughout the collective system were driven in response to the necessities of the ecological processes associated with natural water treatment systems, the sociocultural modalities of Qatari citizens, and the extreme environmental qualities brought forth by its climatic conditions. These parameters of Qatar’s specific qualities and requirements collectively influenced and moulded a process of morphogenesis to develop novel architectures and relationships throughout the system. - Social Organisations: The privacy hierarchies established throughout the system were informed by the sociocultural influences of Qatar, and incorporate ecological environments as extensions of public spaces to establish privacy thresholds and develop comfortable microclimates throughout the system. These multiple factors of influence establish a methodological approach for differentiated social spaces to be organised throughout the system in accordance with the unique modalities of Qatar. - Metabolic Performance: The metabolic input of the system was dramatically reduced through localised natural water treatment processes within the ecological environment. Their dispersal in accordance with the morphological development of the system synthesised the spatial impacts of their coverage requirements with the parameters of the climatic conditions and the consumption demands of the culture to develop an appropriate methodology for minimising metabolic flow throughout the system.
(*) Nicolás Cabargas es arquitecto de la Pontificia Universidad Católica y máster en Arquitectura en la Architectural Association School
(*) Nicolás cabargas is architect from the Catholic University and Master's degree in Architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, Emergent Technologies and Design Programme, London. He is currently associate architect at OF Arquitectos; director and tutor of the Architectural Association School Visiting Biomorph, India; Technology and Media coordinator of the School of Architecture UDP and professor at Universidad Andres Bello and Universidad Diego Portales.
of Architecture, Emergent Technologies and Design Programme, Londres.
Actualmente es arquitecto asociado de OF Arquitectos; director y tutor de la Architectural Association Visiting School BioMorph, India; coordinador de Tecnologías y Medios de la Escuela de Arquitectura UDP y profesor titular en las universidades Diego Portales y Andrés Bello.
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