Extreme Natural Events Action and Research Centre

The center is in a military aerodrome of Madrid with low aerial traffic that needs to change his activity. Its new use will be to send humanitarian help with quickly through the emergency shelter. Extreme Natural Catastrophes research and action are the principal activities of this building.

Extreme Natural Events cause thousands of refugee’s movements every year due to the destruction of the architecture. However, some countries are more affecting today, with catastrophes like hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes. \nThe project seeks a minimum habitability solution light, standardized, removable, modular, adaptable and integrated into the environment. One of the most important aims is that the capsule can to send widely quickly to the emergency in different transport ways. Airplane: 3 shelters movable or 12 shelters removable. \nMoreover, the system is able to pack-self. This concept allows sending shelters in both modes removable or movable. In addition, the design of these shelter permit to combine in order to compose different kinds of uses like an emergency hospital, habitability shelter, study ateliers, religious spaces.\nFurthermore, the shelter system also is used in the building as minimum research space. Hence, researchers work in the same space that they have to send to the emergency, as a way to improve the concept of this system. \nThe building is a research, development, innovation and action center to combat extreme natural events. It has a large infrastructure with different types of simulators to do research experimental tests to learn forms to fight natural disasters through of the resilient architectural design. Moreover, this is a dynamic building that needs high movements of elements. I propose a big bridge crane to displace capsules and infrastructures through to the building.\nIn the south facade found two distinctive, one is the silhouette of the face of JH Dunant, the first Nobel Prize winner of Peace, and founder of the Red Cross, like a tribute. The second is the acronym R + D + I + A, the principal letters of the project.\nI think that the most important technical part of this project is the installations, due to its dynamic character. Various systems are implemented to reduce costs through clean and reuse energies. The most important is the Train2car system, where we reuse kinetic energy of the underground catenary deceleration to move the bridge crane.