FEWW Core (Food, Energy, Water, & Waste): A living framework in a sustainable community

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FEWW Core (Food, Energy, Water, & Waste): A living framework in a sustainable community

Submitted to in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2017

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title: FEWW Core (Food, Energy, Water, & Waste): A living framework in a sustainable community

creator: Esraa Samman

subject: Architecture, Domestic, Designs and plans; Squatter settlements, Designs; Human settlements, Planning; Flexible structures; Modular construction

description: Architects have always been interested [sic] with cores as a universal and fundamental component in architecture. The FEWW Core is a universal investigation that represents an adaptable design each different contexts and conditions, but it is also regional because it requires a local building site to be tested in as an initial prototype design using local materials as an economical solution. Unlike the SINGLE HAUS that can be incorporated everywhere in the world, the FEWW Core design is modified according to a specific region. Each region portrays its contextual character through its own local natural resources, which are the best tools for an adaptable design in its surrounding conditions. Adabtable [sic] core prototypes can be suitable solutions for the shortage of common essential needs in informal settlements located outside the city in varying landscapes like forests, seas, mountains, and deserts (See Fig_03) . My thesis challenge universal architectural to react to local settings through a skeletal design in many regions around the globe. In other words, the FEWW core will take the shape of not only a building system to engage utilities such as electricity and plumbing, but also take a stand as an engaged social justice initiative. It will address existing issues of social structures and radically propose rethinking the way a structure delivers a core. It will also rethink the social and technical possibilities for an individual unit, and potentially benefit an entire community through a modular system that can alter the structure of informal settlements to increase their quality.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

date: 2017

type: Thesis

format: .pdf

language: eng

rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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