WATERTIGHT

PEREZ GONZALEZ- Watertight- Italian coffee pot

Jimenez Salmeron - Watertight - Isolation Tank II

WATERTIGHT

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Definition/ Content: Capacity of an space to prevent permeation by WATER, TEMPERATURE, ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES, SOUND, AIR, SUN, FIRE...

A) The problem of constructing with many differents pieces instead of using only one unique piece.

B) -Permeation of the material used

C) -Joint of the materials (overlap, bridle joints,…)

D) -Position of the material (inclination)

E) Grade of permeation

Objective: The student must acquire the knowledge of how to isolate an space from sound, water, air, temperature...

Materials and construction elements related: covers, facades, opennings, foundations...

WATERTIGHT-Avoid permeation by WATER

How can it be avoided the permeation by water, depending on the geometry of the exterior surface?
It is a matter of design. It is a matter of constructing with pieces.
Overlaping the pieces, like scales, making a bridle joint, or making a continuous surface.

A) OVERLAP-SCALES. Joint in differents levels. The water direction.

Roof tiles (ceramic, concrete, stone, plastic, waterproof coating, glass,…)

Overlap distance

B) BRIDLE JOINT. Joint in the same level.

Instead of ovelaping the roof tiles, it can be done in the same level.

Bridle joints panels: one is hollowed out to receive the end of the other. (ceramic, concrete, stone, plastic, glass….)

C) CONTINUOUS Synthetic chemical materials with no ending, applied by brush, gunited or pumped.

D) SINGULAR ELEMENTS. Crosses

A)OVERLAP

Santiago de Compostela Cathedral

Ypenburg- MVRDV

Simon Conder Cottage- SIMON CONDER ARCHITECTS

B)BRIDLE JOINTS

Eden Project- NICHOLAS GRIMSHAW

Prada Aoyama-HERZOG&deMEURON

C) CONTINUOUS

Santa Caterina Market- EMBT

Penthouse in Amsterdam- MVRDV

Office Building- MANUEL HEREZ

D)SINGULAR ELEMENTS

Cap Ferret House- LACATON & VASSAL

Waterloo Station- NICHOLAS GRIMSHAW

WATERTIGHT- Avoid permeation by TEMPERATURE

Avoiding the THERMAL BRIDGES.
Housing in Sweden. RALPH ERSKINE

WATERTIGHT- Avoid permeation by ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES

Faraday Cage-
Basilea Office Building for Swiss Rail- HERZOG&deMEURON

RODRIGUEZ-GIMENO WIGGIN-Watertight-Nappy

PEREZ GONZALEZ- Watertight- Plastic Bag With Zip System

Watertight_diaper/nappy_Carmen Mencos

Watertight_Fernando Jiménez

Watertight_Beatriz Fernández Gómez

The Hyberbaric Chamber is a physiotherapy instrument consisting of a steel drum which serves to shut people and to produce a higher atmospheric pressure that what we usually have and provide pure oxygen to breathe. It's basis is that our body needs a certain amount of this gas to keep working. In some diseases and accidents, we don't irrigated oxygen throughout the body. The purpose of the camera is to add more pressure on the blood plasma so the fluid is dissolved and can reach places it normally don't reach.

Its mechanism is derived from the physical laws of gas diffusion in the tissues under increased atmospheric pressure, which are Boyle's law and Henry's Law, and pharmacological principles of oxygen. Hyperbaric chambers (hyper = more, baro = pressure) may be called the most developed stage of the first diving suits, which operated under the same physical principles to avoid decompression sickness when divers down to great depths.

GONZALEZ GRANJA-WATERTIGHT-surfing-diving suit

Watertight_Gore-Tex_Marina Carretero

Gore-Tex is a kind of fabric designed as an isolation material for clothes and shoes. In this example of a Gore-Tex boot, we can see how this five layers interact, protecting the feet from humidity and water. All of them are transpirable layers, this way the water vapour, as our sweat, can go out of the shoe, and the rain and puddle´s water stay outside of the boot. The three fisrt layers keep the water outside the boot. The most interior ones, keep the foot warm and with no humidity.
It is a perfect combination between transpiration and isolation,, which is reached through this kinds of materials.