Workgroup formed by Ana Fernández, Jorge Sánchez and Markus Zöchbauer.
Workgroup formed by Ana Fernández, Jorge Sánchez and Markus Zöchbauer.
Transports
The topic in our group was TRANSPORT! Such a normal thing with it's normal problems. But this topic is very important for everydays life. So how we could make life better and support our daily way to work, school, our friends and all the other ways we go in our life? Sometimes it feels like you are half of your life in cars or trains or other objects for movement.
The objective was searching solutions for a specific transport problem.
A young girl (12 years old) wants to travel to her grandparent`s house, every friday by train.
Her grandfather has to pick her up at the station by car.
The problems are:
-The girl could take the wrong train
-Train is too late / breakdown
-The girl get lost at the final station
-The rush-hour produces trafficjam
The solution we have found:
-Hire a responsible person
-GPS emergency watch
Emergency button
programed route
-webcam in the train
-separated department
-radio/internet to taking care about the traficjam
-alternative route / dedicated route
-real tiem information system
Our topic is transport, so our first step was decide the main functions of our design:
Safety
Cheaper
Silent
Comfortable
The scoping:
To get this functions, we had to focus on nature. Some of the natural ways to transport are wind (seeds), sun (sunflowers), water (seeds aun fish eggs). So the main function must be reducing the waste of energy.
The non-negotiable fact is safety. Another facts could be, ecological and cheap.
To simulate our design, we chose a mountainous area (rainy, windy and with big temperature differences between summer and winter)
The users of our proyect could be rural people (remember it was a mountainous area), who needs accesibility.
The main needs are local moves. Non international moves, just between two villages, or village-town.
The creating:
We had to look for natural organisms who moves in an efficient ways.
Some of this models are:
Mistletoe: The birds come and eat his seeds, son wen the bird goes to another tree, and do his natural needs, the seed grows up in that new tree.
Ibex: These goats have developed an efficient way to move between the rocks.
Warm air currents: The birds use the air currents to fly without any spent of energy.
Flying spiders: There are some spiders, wich make a special net like a parachute, and when the wind comes, they throw the net and go away flying.
Slime mold bacteria: This is a bacteria, that divides it self, and look for the best ways to do it. Here are some information:
Questions of other groups are:
Water: how can you time your water transport?
Food: Can you distribute food in a automatically way?
On demand to the right place?
Play:We want easy access properly protected crossroads and connection between play grouds.
Waste: We want you to provide us a way to collect the transport from house to the recycling plant, and give us a timetable as that we won't have traffic problems.
Shelter: Transport on demand
No noise
Accesibility to disabled people and children.
Such a normal thing with it's normal problems. So how we could make life better and support our daily way to work, school, our friends and all the other ways we go in our life?
Such a normal thing with it's normal problems. So how we could make life better and support our daily way to work, school, our friends and all the other ways we go in our life?
cosy transportation system
The topic in our group was Transportation! Such a normal thing with it's normal problems. But this topic is very important for everydays life. So how we could make life better and support our daily way to work, school, our friends and all the other ways we go in our life? Sometimes it feels like you are half of your life in cars or trains or other objects for movement.
For example we thought at a girl which has to travel to her grandparents....
The solution of this case study you can find here: http://nev01.test.mediamatic.nl/page/3926/en
For our project, we needed to provide us with different groups: food, water and energy.
We need much energy to transport passenger. But we want that this energy wasn’t as pollution as the current. So, our demand to the group WASTE was that this energy was biogas. They can supply us because in their design part of the waste is taken to a recycling plant where they create biogas.
Also we need that the shelter were uniform. This problem was resolved by SHELTER group, by building uniform cities.
FOOD group assure us packed of food for our passenger. In fact this group provides us emergency packages created from the surplus food.
On the other hand, we also need water for our passenger and for our machines. WATER group, in addition to providing water also gives us energy created from the movement of a turbine.
Because of our energy needs we also want the PLAY group to provide us energy.
A brief report about the solutions of the workshop we had on Wednesday. The main topic was the collaboration with the other groups
A brief report about the solutions of the workshop we had on Wednesday. The main topic was the collaboration with the other groups
first design
The idea of this workshop was to stimulate the creative process. Every group had to write questions for other groups. Next we tried to find a first solution and presented the whole group. After every presentation there was also time for creative stimuli.
Our project is a simple, easy and fast way of getting around a city. To do this we have set a bacterium called Slime-Mold, which is spreading to uniformly search the optimal path.
This organism would connect all points of interest in an efficient way; we are left to implement a transport system based on the Slime.
There are two distinct networks: one for people would move across the surface (between the streets). On the other hand, the food and waste could circulate underground.
In the next few years living on earth will change very dramatic and all humans have to act very fast to prevent a big disaster
In the next few years living on earth will change very dramatic and all humans have to act very fast to prevent a big disaster
city
The world is changing more rapidly than ever. Globalization continues its march. Gaps in power between developed and emerging countries continue to narrow, driven in part by the politics and economics of energy. We recognize following megatrens on earth.
3 big global megatrends in the next (maybe few) years:
- Climate Change
- Demographic Change
- Urbanisation
All these trends have MOBILITY as a field of application.
One possibility to handle these trends is to introduce a intelligent, smart network which reduces the energy consumption and make the planet a better place to life
Markus Zöchbauer
