assistants: Rodrigo Rubio, Daniel Ibanez
students: Anastasia Fragkoudi, Bagia Pantou, Marcelo de la Riva, Rafael Gutierrez, Hemant Purohit, Arnhildur Palmadottir
The Hyperhabitat seminar was based on the logics and principles of the hyperhabitat representation of the world, a research that was developed by the Iaac institute. Each group of the course was assigned one infrastructure network; ours was the water. The aim of the seminar was the study of 4 cities in terms of water infrastructure and finding a common tool of representing and comparing the water infrastructure network of each city.
The four cities that we chose were Barcelona, Mumbai, Athens and Reykjavik. The study of the cities water infrastructure covered all phases of the water cycle: supply, distribution, consumption and waste. We focused on trying to understand how the water infrastructure works in every city, which are the sources that supply the water, what is the quantity of water supply of each source, how far are the sources of the point of consumption, if the water is filtrated and how, what is the water used for, how it is distributed, how it is consumed, what type of sewer system each city has, where does the waste go, etc.
The research ended up in a graphic representation that managed to compare the water infrastructure network of each city by using a module, which referred to a percentage of 1%. The amount of water supplied, filtrated, distributed, consumed, treated and dumped was expressed through percentages. The color of each module represented its classification (whether it referred to a percentage of supply, of consumption, of waste, etc) and its nature (whether it derived from a lake, a river, an underwater tank, etc, or if it is distributed for domestic, industrial, municipal use, etc). By using the module and developing the diagrams of all 4 cities in terms of proportions we managed to have a common tool of representation and comparison of the water infrastructure network of each city.
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