Designing the Roof and Envelope of a Metro station in the fictional Movie Avatar
Avatar
In the 2009 science fiction film Avatar, director James Cameron
conceived a fictional universe in which humans seek to mine unobtanium
on the fictional exoplanetary moon, Pandora. The Earth-like moon is
inhabited by a sapient indigenous humanoid species called the Na'vi, and
varied fauna and flora. Resources Development Administration (RDA)
scientists, administrators, recruits, support, and security personnel
travel to Pandora in the 22nd century to discover this lush world which
is inhabited by many lifeforms including the human-like Na'vi. The clan
with which the humans have contact in the film "[lives] in a giant tree
that sits on a vast store of a mineral called unobtanium, which humans
want as an energy supply". The Pandoran biosphere teems with a
biodiversity of bioluminescent species ranging from hexapod animals to
exotic fauna and flora. The Pandoran ecology forms a vast neural network
spanning the entire planetary surface into which the Na'vi and other
creatures can connect. The strength of this collective consciousness is
powerfully illustrated when the human invaders are defeated in battle by
the Pandoran ecology, after the resolute Na'vi were nearly defeated.
PANDORA
Location: A moon of planet Polyphemus, a gas giant planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri A, roughly 4.4 light years away.
Environment: Earth like, but humans cannot breathe its air without
Exopack. Atmosphere is a mix of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, xenon,
ammonia, methane, and hydrogen sulphide.
Inhabitants: The Na'vi are an indigenous species that live on Pandora.
They are humanoid in appearance and are 9 to 10 feet (2.7 to 3.0 m)
tall, having pairs of eyes, ears, arms, legs and feet like humans, as
well as a nose, a mouth, and expressions recognizable to humans
DESIGN CHALLENGES
• To understand the biosphere of the region and its social condition.
• To study the available resource , technology and materials in the region.
• Adapt to the spatial needs of both humans and Navi’s .
• Build the structure in a varied physical condition.
• Integrate the built with the Pandora’s ecology which forms collective
forms a vast neural network spanning the entire planetary surface into
which the Na'vi and other creatures can connect.