High-rise Water Tower Could Work Wonders for Darfur
Design firm H3AR have come up with a “skyscraper” water tower for Darfur, Sudan as their entry for the 2010 Skyscraper Competition organized by Evolo Magazine. The tower would provide surrounding areas with one of the most important assets for humanity – water. The tower will pump water from an underground lake, and supply it to people living nearby. It isn’t just a water pump and tower though, the designers have made the structure a lot more useful.
With inspiration coming from the African savanna, more specifically, from the Baobab, the tower also includes room for a treatment plant, hospital, school and a food storage. Effectively, making the tower a hub for activity rather than a standalone structure.
Quite interestingly, the designers envision the tower as sustainable, with a very low carbon footprint. The construction would me mainly done through compressed bricks made of earth, cement and water. On a similar note, the heating and cooling of the tower would be handled by a water channel accessible to all users, while another water channel would cater to the kitchens and toilets inside the building.
Source: TheDesignBlog
from the point of an architectural view it is a good idea and can make a real change in the area BUT as the area suffering from tribal conflict and water war since 10s of years and some studies saying that the water lake is dry a question rised (on what bases you have created this project)? . on the other hand a peaple of darfur who lived in the third world with tribal and ethnical cultures and had never seen high buildings they lived in tents and water from rain and well .with this back ground of this people of darfur it is logical to improve their life by creating a building that is near to their culture and meet their social and pcychological needs . another point are the sudanese architects unable to investigate and analise the problem of darfur area ???? .