La adaptación climática mediante la innovación en materiales como un proceso de supervivencia: The Revenant a través del análisis de Dersu Uzala

Abstract

Emergency situations caused by natural disasters or conflicts have the potential to speed adaptation processes to extreme weather situations and innovative building systems through composites and light structural prototypes. Four actors are involved from several points of view in the same matter: the survival. Initially, the first actor begins the project phase with a location plan by using a map that is constantly modified to in-corporate geographical data and meteorological events during his seasonal expeditions. The second actor collects surrounding materials to build an habitat that is able to take on and successfully defy the harsh weather conditions. The third actor creates atmospheres from three different points of view as 3D renders that allow him to show the importance of the weather forecast in the project. Finally, the fourth actor relates the project and he proves how local conditions determine the connection between the initial ideas and the final work. These four actors are all together in Dersu Uzala, Akira Kurosawa’s film, shot in Ussuri taiga in 1976. Nowadays, the project actors are preparing laboratory tests of new materials which can be applied from territorial macro scale with topographic movements in harsh conditions to nanotechnology implemented to composites that use reinforced elements such as carbon fiber or graphene by sewing system instead of stick them, which can be used in marine platforms, airplanes and emergency constructions to improve local environmental conditions. From Dersu Uzala’s film (Akira Kurosawa, 1976) to The Revenant’s film (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 2015) we can see the need for a more targeted approach to an architecture of survival as the main character of these films does: “As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight”.