Cities are developing by leaps and bounds in the face of a constantly growing population that needs of complex urban planning and infrastructure to cover the needs of its inhabitants.
It will be necessary to propose new formulas that minimize the impact for the development of the activity daily. In this case, we want to cover the future problems of freight transport in cities and why a logistics network based with drone technology it can be a real alternative to a problem that is expected to be difficult to resolved through a project carried out by the architect Saúl Ajuria Fernández.
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The design of projects considering the problems that will emerge in the future allows us to propose new concepts that make our ideas an engine of development and innovation. Starting from this approach, the aspects related to logistics 1 and the transport 2 .
“ A set of necessary means and methods to carry out the organization of a company, or of a service, especially distribution.” 1
“Action and effect of transporting or transporting. Media system or infrastructure to drive people and things from one place to another. Vehicle dedicated to such a mission.” 2
Definition of the RAE.
The first analysis focuses on the activity of delivery of parcels , of which it is presumed an exponential increase in the coming years, due, among others, to the purchase of items online. It concludes that this increased activity combined with current logistics systems would lead to infrastructure collapse.
Taking into account that 80% of shipments weigh less than 2 kg and has a volume of less than a shoebox, one chooses for proposing the use of drones as a vehicle for transport, which allows to obtain great benefits in time and cost of shipments.
This is how the objective of the project is defined: design a logistics network that allows and optimizes the transport of goods with Controlled Aerial Vehicles Remotely in urban areas.
For this network to be carried out, it requires the development of several elements that until now do not exist, such as are: a building that enables logistics, new systems distribution, new elements for parcel reception and a new infrastructure network that adapts to the city existing.
We proceed to consider what should be the characteristics of the plot on which it is located the Logistics Center. First of all, it must be located in a highly densified urban space, so that maximize the number of potential users of the system that are within the radius of action of the Logistics Center.
Secondly, the site must be accessible from roads high speed to ensure fast communication with the transit centers of distribution companies.
Taking into account the previous points, it was decided to locate the project in Madrid, within the South Junction of the M-30 , which is characterized by being a empty urban in a state of disuse and with numerous potential users of this new network in a radius close to it.
The South Knot has as a particularity the presence of the river Manzanares and three adjoining parks: Tierno Galván, Parque Linear del Manzanares and Madrid Río, which are not found connected to each other.
The urban regeneration of the area through a subtle intervention consisting of a network of fast roads and slow paths that connect the building and parks. The Logistics Center emphasizes this new character solar connector leaving the ground floor free and thus giving continuity to the park.
It is conceived as a great machine in charge of receiving, tag and classify incoming packets coming from the transit centers of different companies to later, through RPAS, transfer them to the destination point.
In the same way, the reverse process of collecting packages and classification for shipment by road transport to the transit centers.
The “Urban Droneport” program consists of a Center Logistics and a State Institute for the Development of Technology associated with RPAS. The Logistics Center is located in the lower floors, thus ensuring a quick connection with road accesses and favoring the continuity of the parcel distribution chain to the hangars located in the building envelope.
On the upper floors is the State Institute of Development of Technology that seeks to generate a micro research and training society, in a workspace agile and flexible that adapts to the different needs and that is related to the Logistics Center in the spaces common.
The program is considered as two symbiotes, in this way the Logistics Center functions as a large field for the application of new technologies developed in the Institute and this in turn connects with the Logistics Center in some spaces to establish control over the RPAS: repairs, improvements and implementation of new systems.
The project develops in a linear way; the definition of the concept to be developed connects us with a specific location and program. continuing with this evolution, it arises as is the formalization of said concept and program.
The “Urban Droneport” is based on a architecture of process , which optimizes the operation of the system and contribute to enhance all aspects for the development of the new infrastructure. After an analysis of these processes a spherical formalization is chosen, which makes it possible to develop plans and circular sections, favoring In this way both the distribution and management of parcels such as the flight of aircraft avoiding the appearance of turbulence.
Due to the location of the building in an environment aggressive, noisy and highly polluted, it is decided to isolate it of the environment and turn it over to the internal relationship, empowered by a central patio that allows the entry of light and the relationship visual between the different plants. The location and layout of the structure are also in the same line and allow to release the interior space. Similarly, the hangars contribute to the isolation from the environment constituting the outer skin of the building.
Focusing on the constructive aspects and structural of the building, the following apply principles: prefabrication , modularity and rationality . It seeks to minimize the elements and types of joints and opted for a metal structure with dry joints that allow both assembly and disassembly of the itself, as its extension or modification. the building remains modulated in such a way that the details of its construction are seen resolved with just one of its twelve segments.
The configuration of the hangars for the drones is based on industrial storage systems and is independent of the main structure, which allows the modification of the dimensions of these according to the needs. In the doors of the hangars a system is designed concentration and expansion of solar rays that allows obtaining photovoltaic energy, thus covering a large part of the energy demand of the building.
To make the operation of this new system feasible of transport, a new network of infrastructure that, together with the Logistics Center, suitable for the existing city. The network is based on three actions: firstly, the use of the city as a three-dimensional map that allows us to generate this new network physically detached from the existing ones in the news.
Secondly, the installation of point elements in the buildings that integrate the existing city with the new network. Finally, the design of the elements of delivery and collection of parcels that respond to two casuistry: in buildings accessible by façade, carried out through individual mailboxes and, in buildings that are not accessible by facades is done by means of Community mailboxes that can be located on the roof of the own building or in a nearby public space.
Based on the analysis of the urban voids of the city of Madrid proposes the growth of the new transport network through specific actions in various junctions of the M-30, which have a large number of Potential users in its radius of action due to its status as intermediate space between the almond of the city and the first enlargements that were made of it.
It was possible to install a logistics network in the Almond from Madrid with only four Centers Logistics that have a radius of action of 4 kilometers.
Finally, note that this new infrastructure allows to establish other different and independent connections of the package transport network for purposes commercial , such as a healthcare network of emergency between health centers and hospitals or networks of citizen security.
