HYDROPOD
A modular and Reconfiguring Watercraft
Hydropod is a proposal that looks at a multi-purpose urban platform on water. Water surface would be one of the main platforms to consider as living space.
Like cells in tissue, or
ants in a colony, the individual hydropod is highly capable, robust and adapts
to its environment with power in numbers,
the fleet will be able to adapt and change to current needs placed on the
system.
Each craft was designed with a hexagonal plan that utilizes three-fold rotational symmetry. This symmetry allows for various patterns of clustering, increasing the flexibility of the system.
As a stand-alone piece, the craft design was broken into two parts; the hull, including everything below the floor plane, and the deck, including everything above the floor plane. The hull, like the drivetrain of a car, is standard to all craft, while the deck can be switched out to change the function, or ‘mod’, of each craft when necessary.
Deck:
1. Brain - sensing/communicating
2 . Petals - structural photovoltaic panels
3 . Floor System - adaptive wood tiles
4 . Structure - carbon fiber composite
5 . Foglights
Hull:
1. Battery
2. Ruderless Propulsion System
a.counter-rotating propellor array
b.water jet plenum-in/out
3. Active gyroscope array
4. Coarse pollution filter
The hull, like the drivetrain of a car, is standard to all craft, while the deck can be switched out to change the function, or ‘mod’, of each craft when necessary.
Fog Harvesting Mode of Hydropods
TEAM:
SIMA SHAHVERDI
JEFFREY MONTES
CHRIS BOTHAM
WITH AI SPACE FACTORY
Featured Work
TERA
TERA
AN EARTH HABITAT
Built with NASA award winning technology, TERA is a forward thinking terrestrial habitat inspired by the shape of our Martian habitat, Marsha. Tera offers a sustainable solution for building on this planet, while advancing the technologies for living on another. I lead the design team in this project.
TERA Crowdfunding
We set up a successful fundraising Indiegogo campaign for Tera’s upstate new york construction.
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Built with NASA award winning technology, TERA is a forward thinking terrestrial habitat inspired by the shape of our Martian habitat, Marsha. Tera offers a sustainable solution for building on this planet, while advancing the technologies for living on another
TERA’s rich and playful interior, made of birch and poplar, evokes that of a tree-house. Free of pre-defined rooms, TERA’s various activity areas are perched on, and nestled in, a spiraling form emerging from the landscape. TERA’s open plan maximizes daylight and air circulation—further enhanced by energy efficient LED lighting and underfloor heating to provide year-round comfort
We studied different porosities and profiles based on our material property, printability and possible construction equipment
The first floor includes areas for sitting and food preparation, an
herb garden, bathroom and storage. Along the way to the second floor and embedded in
the stairs is a small library and study area. At top is a queen-sized sleeping pod under a
large skylight.
Design Team :
Sima Shahverdi, David mallot
Fabrication Team :
Chris Botham, James Earl, James Colman, Amit Adhikaree
with AI Space Factory
Fabrication Team :
Chris Botham, James Earl, James Colman, Amit Adhikaree
with AI Space Factory
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