Coimbatore, Oct 29: 3d printing low cost housing for homeless people in 24 hours was the major highlight of the presentation of AplusR Co-Founder architect Chenthur Raaghav at TEDx Vienna about Smart City Coimbatore.
According to a press release, Mr.Raaghav said "3d printing with a portable robot in Spain helped us visualise this concept of producing low cost, climate responsive design to reduce energy costs".
Providing shelter to homeless people and people in rural districts with 3d printing technology, addresses issues on air pollution and noise which has a major impact on global warming.
Delineating the important points that he had presented there, he touched upon the topic of addressing the issue of global warming through architecture.
The topics discussed apart from Smart City Coimbatore include how to cut down air pollution through architecture as over 7-9 million deaths happen every year in the world due to air pollution.
How can buildings and cities help reduce air pollution was a significant issue discussed.
Global Warming is a serious threat to the world.
How can we prevent global warming by changing the style of architecture and designing climate responsive buildings.?
Façades which can reduce 97 % smog in one of the projects was received well at Vienna.
Urban noise is A future Threat which is going to kill our Cities.
More than 40% of world population is affected by noise in the world.
How can we curb urban noise? Through aural architecture and planning cities in a better way, we would be able to design better to respond to this issue.
Graphene Architecture to create Intelligent Living spaces was the hit of the presentation. Graphene project research done in Spain explains the potential to create sustainable neighbourhoods for the future.
At TEDx Vienna the summary was to present a future habitat of intelligent buildings and cities which can respond to the nature and environment, Very significant issues were also presented to an audience from more than 40 countries.
