Author: МАУРАСАКА УИЛСОН ЧУКИ / MAURAZACA WILSON CHUQUI
PREFACE
By Wilson Patricio Maurazaca Chuqui
UCACUE - Ecuador
The year 2100 social housing will unveil a world where changes by technology or other aspects are very noticeable and from my point of view, I will show all aspects of how I propose that will be the architecture in the year 2100 taking into account the social class of people. One of my objectives is to take into account everything that has happened so far to visualize the future in a more realistic way without reaching exaggerations that may be much more futuristic.
How? When? When will the changes begin to be noticed in this planet is something that as a student I have always thought about, since in my opinion architecture should be advancing together with science, but it seems that we are stuck in the way of teaching and we do not innovate.
The main reason I am writing this book is for people to know more about the futuristic utopia and how the function of architecture plus the scientific world can be of great help to propose new ways of building. The world will give a great change due to the various circumstances to which it has been exposed, but one of the main promoters that will make the world change more will be the technological advances that will occur throughout the planet.
As an objective is to show that people by necessity can be ingenious to build even in places never thought of and in unimaginable ways and how social classes change the lives of people.
INTRODUCTION
The world as we know it has changed several times, with technology and science rapidly evolving our lives, ushering in an era of extraordinary opportunities. Finding a place to rest and shelter from bad weather is a basic human need, and housing is a concern for everyone, whether upper middle class or lower class, because in recent years people have begun to multiply rapidly, leaving the poor with nowhere to sleep or shelter from the sun or rain. This presents a challenge for scientists and architects seeking to design and address new housing sites for such people.
However, the Earth has gone through several human-inflicted phases since World War I (1914), World War II (1939) and several pandemics (such as the 2020 coronavirus), many people are affected, and as a result, there have been some social changes on the planet as well as climate change. There are currently more than 9 billion people on Earth, so most live in large cities such as New York and San Francisco with populations of more than 30 million.
Cities have become the center of society and are starting to grow very fast, but big growth comes at a price and that comes at the price of pollution. To reduce this, architects have managed to bring nature and agriculture to the interior of large cities. New York in the year 1050 was the first city to become a completely green city with space for agriculture and this also managed to extend beyond achieving construction in and out of the water as floating buildings.
People with good resources succeed in some way, but those who do not have enough resources have a lot of problems to get a place to live. Many of them got this habitat because of the jobs given to them by the government, and by working for them, they provided it, while others achieved it through farming and ranching.
CHAPTER 1
(The passage of the years)
For many years society has been divided into different social classes and therefore people have built according to their resources. The rich have big skyscrapers and large mansions where they can live in great comfort while on the other side the poor have often lacked a place to spend the night. In previous years the governments sought to solve this problem by giving away houses for low-income people, but they never took into account the need of these, they designed a design for everyone without taking into account the location of this so people preferred to live in shacks than in these buildings.
Some years ago while I was studying architecture an elderly professor told us about a story of when he designed this type of housing and after some time they went back to see if people were using it or not but their surprise was that most of the people were living in their old residences and that provoked the following question in them: Why did people prefer their huts than the constructions that had been given to them? They asked one of the residents of this area and he answered that the only use they gave to these constructions was for the animals because if they started to live in this place they would get sick because of the cold that exists in these areas. The issue is that they did not take into account the climatic factors of the area and this made people use the huts because in this area, thanks to the fact that it is built with earth and many of these under the ground, they were able to keep the heat they needed.
With the passing of the years, people were ingenious for the construction of housing for those with low resources among them is the construction in containers if they bury it under the ground it goes very well for places with low climate, but if they build it in high climates it can become very suffocating and even uninhabitable for people.
In the year 2100 people have designed an environmentally friendly and self-sustainable house taking into account the following points.
- Orientation of the house
- Sun control
- Wind control
- Maximum quality of views
1.1.- Three factors to make the impossible possible
The factors that are taken into account for the change within the cities are the various situations that have occurred on the planet due to the increase of global warming, this has encouraged several professionals to innovate and create new technologies. Within the cities, the lack of green areas became a very notorious problem since there was no place to bone and therefore the level of socialization of people had decreased to a point where they had no other acquaintances beyond the family. Because of this, we were starting to return to many years before where parents organized weddings for their children and instead of moving forward we had returned to the past, this was one of the main factors to propose a green city like New York, since a green space helps with the socialization of people.
Another important factor for this type of city was the extinction of many birds and other animals of the planet and this due to the great urban increase without control reaching the point that mansions for people of high social class were implanted inside Central Park and taking into account this many countries began to propose mansions for the rich inside the parks. Once they became aware of everything that had been done, this type of green buildings where the green is even on the terraces of the skyscrapers being very accessible due to the high technology that we have in these years. Scientists worked on many technologies that help with the growth of these plants in the building and this was a point in favor to raise this type of cities.
Taking into account the above mentioned what helped to make possible the impossible were: the great technological advance of this year, the innovation of the new architects and finally the acceptance by society to this type of approaches made.
CHAPTER 2
(Year 2100)
In the year 2100 several changes are made within the different cities of the world due to the floods that occur due to global warming and thus giving way to generate new architectures. One of these that architects are raised are floating cities thus generating homes that are on the water and for the mobility of people including boats and even flying cars to help reach different parts of this city, within this also include skyscrapers that have their structures on land underwater and have structures that support the large waves of the ocean (Image 1). Many of these buildings are generated from the need of people looking for a place to live. Large buildings are beginning to generate parks within their roofs, even in the middle of them, showing a great advance in technology and also in the architecture of this year.
Communication is very varied and in this year cell phones, tablets and even computers will become a thing of the past that will have no more utility than being a relic for futuristic people due to the breakthrough that is given at this time the brain of the people will be connected in a direct way to the digital world showing all the information that is necessary or needed, even turning our eyes as high resolution cameras that are able to capture photographs or make videos. People will start to depend more on their technology and this is because it will be of great use, even making people think that machines will start to control people and not vice versa.
Over the years the economy in all countries would give a total inflation thus devaluing the currencies of different countries, to counteract this governments move from a tangible economy to an intangible one and this is the electronic currency giving many advantages to people as they are beginning to relate much more with the technology of the time because people are connected to the digital world.
Transportation as well as the economy takes a giant step forward because it does not need a driver to take it, but the technology of this year makes the cars generate an automatic driver tracing land and even air routes where the user chooses what kind of trip he wants to have.
These different changes that have occurred over time have not only affected people but also the environment and therefore architects and scientists have sought new ways to build houses. One of the ways that have been proposed is with prints in large 3D printers and this is given with the use of garbage that is collected from the mountains, old vehicles and electronic devices of the past so these printers use recycled raw materials and thus generating houses of social interest for low-income people of this era.
Another type of housing that are beginning to be raised for people are for the middle class who are workers and farmers and these are the houses that have more relationship with the environment thus generating homes that are under the ground using the cover for planting different foods and thus gaining space for planting and housing. This type of cities are built in spaces where the ocean has not reached, but because of the high demand for food that is needed, the architects propose to generate housing for these workers while maintaining the area of planting food.
This type of housing is also designed to be self-sustainable housing, generating solar panels capable of keeping an entire city illuminated. In the case of water, being surrounded by a large ocean, they generate devices capable of purifying salt water through various filters transforming it into fresh water.
2.1.- Three factors to make the impossible possible
Discrimination on the part of upper class people towards lower class people generates an important point within the innovation of scientists and architects. The idea is to generate printed houses with the garbage that has accumulated inside the planet and this includes vehicles, coins and other materials that are made of metal. The rules to be able to print your house with this great printer are to obtain enough garbage to make your house, to pay the machine for its maintenance, and finally to have a land where to implant the house. These were three main rules and because of this many people resigned themselves to not having a house of this type because although it is not as expensive as to build a house like the upper class people for poor people it becomes a challenge to get a land and get the money.
Due to this factor, people did not have land and due to the lack of land and the rising sea level began to generate floating buildings, which is one of the most important innovations of these years, since the conquest of the ocean that was proposed in past years became a reality with the help of scientists and architects.
CHAPTER 3
(Houses of social interest in the year 2100 - cold areas)
The houses of social interest in the year 2100 were built based on Keldur Turf House that were located in the south of Iceland, these were a row of houses also called turf houses as mentioned above the houses were built taking into account that the covers would be used for planting vegetables and fruits. Taking into account this aspect and taking as a reference the row of houses, architects began to design different ways to generate the needs of the users, so cities were generated buried under the ground, in addition to all the above mentioned, all the constructions began to be self-sustainable and the houses used solar panels and due to the great technological advance a small solar panel could illuminate an entire city for several days. In the case of water, pipes were applied on the roofs to absorb rainwater and then go through a cycle of purification and disinfection to be able to consume it or for other tasks.
The houses began to be built when scientists interfered in these constructions and according to this they began to apply different materials to make this house more according to the time they applied materials such as wood for the floors since the wood also helps keeping the heat they invented some panels that helped keeping the heat in the day while the sun was and so that when the nights become extremely cold these were turned on helping to make these cold areas habitable.
The high application of vegetation both inside and outside the dwellings reduced the impact of air pollution as well as helping to thermally balance and correct the humidity of the dwellings. Within the design of these houses small windows were left together with a good solar orientation and thus adjust to climate changes as well as temperature changes in cold areas.
3.1.- Three factors to make the impossible possible
Within the small remaining fields lived the farmers who tried to produce fruits and vegetables for the big cities. Not having enough space for constructions, they opted to build their houses subway, keeping the upper land for the use of the sowing of different foods.
The peasants put as primordial the sowing of a vegetable terrace where they sowed small foods such as potatoes, barley, wheat among others that did not affect much the construction that was under them. The products such as apples, bananas, and others became mangroves that were sold for super high prices and this helped them to pay for the different expenses and also to compare the flying transport to avoid the construction of long stretches of roads and to gain even more land.
The large livestock fields have decreased significantly and this has led to factories producing artificial meat and the real meat is only purchased by people with a lot of money.
CHAPTER 4
(Houses of social interest in the year 2100 - warm zones)
In warm areas, constructions with ventilation were achieved, the main design is based on a dwelling made with natural walls and with several openings that help with the ventilation of the home. The houses are built on elevated bases to avoid contact with the humidity of the floor, the walls are made of wood and most of them are openings that help the ventilation of the spaces, when it rains the roofs are designed so that the water is reused in areas such as bathroom, laundry and sink. In wooded areas architects have designed tree houses forming a row of dwellings for low-income people in this type of house ventilation is provided through an opening that is just below the roof and this can also be closed if climatic factors are unfavorable.
The warm areas have a disadvantage since the humidity causes the materials to degrade, which is why materials such as metal are used for the structures. Scientists in these parts help with ventilation materials also built from recyclable materials. The spaces of the habitat are of a dining room, kitchen and a general bathroom that would be the humid zones while in dry zones it has space as bedrooms and living room. In the year 2100 people have achieved many good things, but they have also polluted nature to a great extent, so the houses are composed of a large amount of vegetation to try to solve this. Houses in warm areas usually have large ventilation spaces while in this type of habitat ventilation is mostly natural. Most of these types of houses are located near the ocean so it helps in a great way for recent people in these areas if they can raise enough money to build floating houses. Technology has been advancing with the passage of time and the design of the houses have advanced along with it. Warm zones have increased thanks to the global warming that has occurred due to environmental pollution.
The high humidity to which a house is exposed and the floods that can occur in this area make them design elevated houses. Within these houses, which have been built since pre-Hispanic times, scientists have implemented a stainless metal that they have managed to develop.
Within these houses new technologies are also implemented to keep these houses at a temperature that is habitable and also added insecticides due to the high inhabitation of insects in warm areas.
CHAPTER 5
(Social interest houses in the year 2100 - in the cities)
Social classes exist anywhere, whether in rural or urban areas, in this case in the city, architects have managed to design apartment buildings for hundreds of people, but what is so special about these apartments? The answer is that they are very small apartments that according to the materiality used can be adapted to what is needed at that moment.
The design is based on transforming this room or small space in what is needed, for example, if you need a room to adapt the environment just by moving a couple of walls and so with any type of space that is needed, this type of design is of great help to people because they are too small spaces and the price will decrease radically. It is not necessary to have a space for each area of the house if it is possible to adapt in an adequate way each space of the house. The buildings that were used in this type of construction are flexible and made of recyclable materials that can be adapted to the space that is given. This type of construction was carried out in great quantity since the big cities began to be the nucleus of the society and therefore these cities were where more circulation of people existed. In terms of self-sustainability each apartment has solar panels to obtain electricity for each apartment, while the water was collected by the rains that existed and these are purified and used as drinking water and are also used for bathrooms. In the cities this type of buildings are distributed in the form of a row in some parts of the big cities.
Within the cities to begin to overpopulate the architects are raised in generating rooms that contain everything in one space this method began to be used due to overcrowding and lack of space makes smaller spaces are generated in spaces that are comfortable for people.
This is based on generating an environment with a single click as if it where a puzzle is generated a space either a dining room, kitchen, bedroom or other space. This was one of the best solutions to this problem.
CHAPTER 6
(Social housing in the year 2100 - given by the rich or the government)
In this year the rich are those who have great economic power, they may have large factories or some other means of economic income, they offer a job for low-income people so that in exchange for working for them, they give them a place where they can live. This type of housing became very popular because of the currency exchange rate, many people became bankrupt. While people with high incomes took advantage of the situation to get cheap labor.
The designs for this type of living quarters have been made in the form of apartment living quarters sections depending on how many people are going to live in them. The houses are designed in such a way that each of them has its own solar panels and has its own drinking water and septic tank. The people who live in these homes have low resources since all they have is what the people in power give them and once they are fired they take nothing with them.
The apartments are composed of a bathroom, living room, dining room, kitchen and bedrooms, many of these are distributed according to a linear circulation and around them there are a lot of trees so that they have a great contact with nature. While the government has come to give away a type of housing for low-income people who have disabilities and can not work. This type of housing is self-sustainable and designed according to the needs of these people. The entire cabin is designed on a single level so that this type of people can move more easily in this environment. With the passage of time, people have begun to get used to living in this type of habitat. Another type of construction that the government carried out was the construction with straw or bamboo.
Within the cities when they began to overpopulate the architects are raised in generating rooms that contain everything in a single space this method began to be used due to overcrowding and lack of space is generated in smaller spaces spaces that are comfortable for people.
This is based on generating an environment with a single click as if it were a puzzle that generates a space either a dining room, kitchen, bedroom or other space. This was one of the best solutions to this problem.
Automation within the technological advances was another factor that helped significantly in this type of spaces, and thus artificial intelligence allows the user if you do not want to give a click just by saying it can generate the desired space. Another important factor is that it is about generating self-sustainable spaces obtaining rainwater and collecting it to then pass some filters for purification and then be consumed or used in the daily life of people.
CHAPTER 7
(Construction with containers)
This type of construction is also one of the most used in these years because of its easy and fast way of construction. Containers were beginning to stop being used because of the new technology that was beginning to flourish, while for architecture this was a way of construction.
When the containers began to be abandoned many of the low income people began to live in them, without having any comfort or anything like that. When the architects saw this, one of those architects began to design in the containers, when he had the designs he went to the place where the containers were abandoned in large numbers and many people lived in it, his design was based on making a livable and self-sustainable place. And that these were based on putting a container on top of another creating a living space for two families. This was distributed creating a line of container houses inside this put a type of rubber that became something soft wall and also helped to keep the heat this material what it did is that during the hot days when the container tried to transform the cabin into an unbearable oven this rubber kept the heat until the sun disappeared and during the nights is gradually releasing so making this space a livable place for residents.
EPILOGUE
According to all the advances that the planet has had, humanity has managed to get ahead despite all aspects, both natural and economic, people always manage to adapt to the environment in which they have to live.
Throughout the planet there are great technological advances as well as in architecture, every day something is learned or discovered and that is what makes society grow. The change of currency will always bring something in itself will make many rich, but also many will become poorer. My vision in writing this article is that at some point in the future the social classes will cease to exist because of this many people do not live the way they want to live, I know it is very difficult to achieve this, but when a society is united can achieve everything. The advances that will begin to be seen will be more advanced I believe in a future where large buildings will have a park full of vegetation because if humanity begins to clean nature to extend to its surroundings, they will have a great risk of extinguishing the flora and also the fauna.
Humans are capable of many things and I believe that they will also manage to conquer the bottom of the ocean, I believe in the construction of dwellings inside the water since this would be a means of extension for people and without affecting in great proportions the flora and fauna since thanks to global warming there will be much more water than land masses. I know that in spite of all the advances in the sciences, they will be very great and perhaps even achieve the construction of floating dwellings. That someday people will conquer the skies and this will become one of the ways to solve the excessive population of people and also to leave spaces of flora and fauna on the earth to subsist in a way adapting to the times.
If none of this were to be like this and there were still social classes I would wish that the constructions for these people would be much more comfortable and that the governments would take them into account and help with the prices of each thing for the reason that there will be a lot of population and therefore the cases of people with low resources will increase.
If that were the case, I believe that the technology would improve even more and I would consider that the people of low resources would start living on earth because according to my perspective the people with power would achieve many things like the floating house on the water and in the sky they would be able to conquer all this and they could even conquer other planets while for the people of low economic resources would only remain what the wealthy people left behind. This work has been very interesting to do because it has made me think about many things that could come in the future and how people would begin to adapt to the new stage of things that would come to be seen.
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