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Hybrid Bridge
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 20/06/2021
Designer: Clausen Buchartts
Medium: Film made using CAD
Object number: MISC.2021.56.CC
DescriptionDigital film
Description by artist:
The Hybrid Bridge project is a strategy to creatively solve flooding and malaria issues at the same time by valuing a local myth of a mermaid called Kianda. To solve flooding and malaria issues simultaneously with the same project a unit is designed, consisting of a rooftop rainwater harvesting tanks with natural filters, kitchen or toilet on the ground floor, and an anaerobic digester underground to generate energy or gas for cooking.
The project is named hybrid as it solves two different problems simultaneously. In rainy season water is harvested to reduce flooding. In dry season some of the harvested water is released on the river to prevent stagnant water which is a mosquitoes’ breeding ground.
The Hybrid Bridge project is disseminated through a film that shows features of the Kianda Aquatic City which is a mythical place and the Wet Bridge site in Luanda, Angola. In addition, the Hybrid Bridge Project outcome is shown. In this project an architect creates a bridge between two worlds (the magical for people who believe in myth and the real for people who don’t), bringing elements of the Kianda city and reusing some elements from Wet Bridge to make the proposal. This combination should lift Angolan identity and solve flooding and malaria or mosquitoes’ issues.
Hybrid Bridge film shows how a rewritten myth can lift the identity of a country meanwhile solving flooding or mosquitos’ issues simultaneously.
Description by artist:
The Hybrid Bridge project is a strategy to creatively solve flooding and malaria issues at the same time by valuing a local myth of a mermaid called Kianda. To solve flooding and malaria issues simultaneously with the same project a unit is designed, consisting of a rooftop rainwater harvesting tanks with natural filters, kitchen or toilet on the ground floor, and an anaerobic digester underground to generate energy or gas for cooking.
The project is named hybrid as it solves two different problems simultaneously. In rainy season water is harvested to reduce flooding. In dry season some of the harvested water is released on the river to prevent stagnant water which is a mosquitoes’ breeding ground.
The Hybrid Bridge project is disseminated through a film that shows features of the Kianda Aquatic City which is a mythical place and the Wet Bridge site in Luanda, Angola. In addition, the Hybrid Bridge Project outcome is shown. In this project an architect creates a bridge between two worlds (the magical for people who believe in myth and the real for people who don’t), bringing elements of the Kianda city and reusing some elements from Wet Bridge to make the proposal. This combination should lift Angolan identity and solve flooding and malaria or mosquitoes’ issues.
Hybrid Bridge film shows how a rewritten myth can lift the identity of a country meanwhile solving flooding or mosquitos’ issues simultaneously.