The complexity of initiating a paradigm shift in how we operate Vancouver's economy will gain momentum at the community and localized scale, where intricacy is most manageable. The word economy, derived from the word home, brings a call to the domestic, where green discourse and collaboration can take root and prove that spaces we inhabit actually reflect the culture of its time.
Economy (Opportunity)
The site will contain a fabrication assembly fine for prefabricated modules that uses a high degree of sustainable materials and activates sustainable systems to produce energy. The merging of the Timmon's model of entrepreneurship and triple bottom fine of sustainability is to celebrate the productive approach of an entrepreneur with the ethics and ritual of environmental design. Not only is the prefab process a more sustainable solution to building design due to less waste, reduced on-site construction times, and cost savings, it gives the opportunity for mass customization and a collaborative approach to the individual client's modules. The client, who would be the artists, scientists, industrialists, creatives and research/development teams that want to establish themselves in the reconnect site, collaborate with the fabrication team to produce a building perfectly suited for their use.
Environment
The design of the viaduct site will convey an ecological approach where the whole building functions like an ecosystem. The initiative harvests, collects, and integrates local sustainable materials and construction waste into a sustainable prefabrication process. The fabricated green modules will house businesses and green industries on the larger reconnect site by unifying the multi-modal linkages with the existing ‘fly-by' transportation lines into a working material and information exchange hub. This establishes a localized city specific material cycle that allows for collaboration of ideas and synergies that establish a green culture. The site will be net energy positive and create a closed loop system that will spark a new green economy in Vancouver.
Equity (society/team)
Since the green economy is pivotal on localized networks and awareness, an objective of the project is to make building culture more democratic, understood, and transparent. Through the use of the seawall as a large public arena, the site has a strong west to east axis of moving people; the key is to engage people with the site laterally on their daily jog along the seawall or on their commute to work. The social aspects of the site integrate ideas of ritual with building culture and an understanding of natural systems.
The edge condition is a very discernible elemental part of Vancouver, but to blur the edge into a connection between nature (environment), shelter (economy), and human (equity) a more mutually beneficial relationship will be achieved.
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