CAFx - Earthquake-proof individual residential building LOTUS by Артем Zurabian

Earthquake-proof individual residential building LOTUS

Артем Zurabian

Russia

The earthquake-proof individual residential building "LOTOS" is a quickly erected, capital, fireproof and earthquake-proof house with a minimum consumption of such material as reinforced concrete, while ensuring a minimum construction cost. For this purpose, the flat walls of a large-panel house are replaced by thinner curvilinear ones, which have high rigidity and stability under the influence of seismic loads. In many regions of the world it is possible to solve the problem of providing the population with comfortable affordable housing by this method.

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Presenting the perspective and state of mind of the homeless living in the downtown area.

The film is about the poverty that young people go through and the situation leads many to use cabs to earn some pocket money. Unfortunately, there is a very competitive taxi business in the city and it makes the service and the prices decrease as well. The second biggest city Sumgayit is almost 30 KM away from Baku and there are cabs around the center you could take to Sumgayit only for 1 manat (around 0.55 EUR). The situation is the same with “1 manat” cabs to some other districts as well. There are many famous cab companies such as Uber and Bolt well functioning in Baku and their service prices are very low as well. The situation is advantageous to encourage people to take cabs instead of using their own car, however it leads to the exploitation of the cab drivers.

In Search of Accidental Ecosystem

I walked along the road around the apartment, reflecting on the process of asking again how the city would have become our haven. In an apartment complex built in the 1970s, trees placed between unintended apartment street intervals create a middle park. The video shows people and animals resting together in the scene where trees placed in the path, not in a public park, create a park landscape. The tree had a buffering effect that absorbed the concept of an artificial building called an apartment as if rubbing it into nature.