HumidiFire - Wildfire Mitigation Infrastructure
Architectural Thesis- M.Arch Spring 2018
Hammons School of Architecture Thesis Librarium Award 2018 Finalist
Background:
California suffered from extensive wildfire damage in 2017. Our resources struggled to contain wildfires once they began spreading and hundreds of billions of dollars were lost. My Thesis design question is, "How can architecture create a solution that helps mitigate such destructive wildfires?"
My proposal for this issue is a prototypical infrastructure called a "HumidiFire" that monitors relative humidity levels in the air and acts to maintain a healthy atmospheric balance of relative humidity levels to reduce fire weather conditions. Using ultrasonic vibration technology, the HumidiFire converts liquid water to a cool water vapor that gets pushed into the air. In accordance with preserving resources, the HumidiFire is shaped to maximize solar gain with a shell of solar panels that collect the surplus of California sun.
