Blow Blew Blown Project: A Facade that Absorbs Smog to Energy and Cooling Spaces for Urban Heat Island Effect
The urban heat island effect and pollution is a much a public space problem,as it is an environmental one. What if it were possible to flexibly shade, cool these spaces, create ecological responsive design and balance the network while also providing a focal point for public interaction using the Roof Outer Membrane. What else can be done?
Imagine a flexible organic urban refrigerator that plays the monsoon for you to relax, study, meditate and eat. The Project aims to tackle the lack of social infrastructure in the area. The public space features a social interactive chilled park using an algorithmic net " Concept of Spider Web" set above the waterscapes and rainforest landscape.
The building is a multi level park on stilts to provide natural air flow and chilled the air using waterscapes. Providing 400% green spaces that will hold different activities for congregations. The Ground Floor is intended for civic plaza ( a removable commercial space), Learnscape Library and Rainforest Garden. The second floor and third floor is for Meditation Space, Multi functional Net Playground, Chilled walks and Hammocks. The fourth floor is intended to be a Tropical Farm to Table wherein food stalls are overlooking the courtyards. Roof deck is for a social inhabited space cooled by tree growth underneath from the last level; it also provides cooled steam and clouds.
The Project seeks to address the lack of soulful, shaded rest and play areas for the people and residents of Quebec. The building stands as a new urban lung and a monument of identity, functionality, feasibility, sustainability and user experience- a totem of connectivity with the tradition of responsive architecture in Quebec, while employing new technologies that envision a more optimistic way of living on our planet.
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