Breathing City Shelter
You Breathe The City，The City Also Breathe You Back
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An interactive city shelter of urban lifestyle, expressing the relationship between city and its dwellers through the action of breathing.
In Schrödinger's book What is Life?, he originally stated that 'What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy.' and 'Is the essence of metabolism, in its survival period successfully rid themselves of organisms must have all the entropy.'
City, accordingly, increase its entropy because of problems such as air pollution, traffic jams, information overload and so on. Meanwhile, these urban issues actuate citizens to be anxious and distressed. Breathing is believed to be the most simple way of metabolism that accelerates the entropy increase. People are noticeably relaxed and easy to concentrate after deep breathing. This city shelter is going to be a cure path way in our city, transforming anxiety to relief. You breathe the city and the city also breathe you back, making up a mutual beneficial connection.
1862, Rudolf Clausius proposed a classic case about increasing entropy - the melting ice experiment. In this case, he considered increasing entropy as wasted energy. If there is no additional energy, the ice would be melt ;at normal temperature,If the ice want to stay in the same condition, there must be an additional energy which has been added , but when it gets colder, the external temperature will be increased. So we considered ,the cicity problems which caused by city developed as increase entropy to the people.
In Schrödinger's book What is Life?, he originally stated that 'What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy.' and 'Is the essence of metabolism, in its survival period successfully rid themselves of organisms must have all the entropy.'
Schrödinger proposal negative entropy is the balance to an organism or a system. At the same time, we could think, city is a system ,and people also is a system,and people also is a system. So could we think metabolism could solve the increase entropy for both city and people?