Our ambition for the Botanical Garden is to offer it a true Living Space. A glass pavilion formed by nature, and which in return makes the show. We propose an architecture constituted more like an organism than a mechanism, like a relational object that is inspired by the complex links of nature to approach a pure symbiosis with it. An architecture forged by its environment, which tries to adapt to it so perfectly that it becomes an integral part of it. This symbiosis with the environment becomes a form of nature show. A staging of light, plants and the rhythm of the seasons. We see the landscape and the shadows pass by, smell the plants and the earth, feel the heat of summer and the cold of winter.
In order to reinforce this fundamental bond with nature, the Glass Pavilion must appeal to the senses. It must reflect the variations of light, the change of seasons, make us feel the heat and the cold, make us touch materials, smell odors, offer us engaging views of the landscape. We propose a phenomenological pavilion that brings nature to life through sensations. Nature is made up of a series of cycles, a kind of continuous breathing between day and night, between winter and summer. Architecture often proposes a univocal response to conditions that are always changing. The Glass Pavilion is an architecture in constant metamorphosis, an architecture that changes its appearance and adapts to be in phase with the cycles of nature.
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The proposal, very formalist, develops an imposing volume, on two levels, whose roof and walls, entirely glazed, take the shape of a folded sheet like an origami.
- The jury recognizes the original form of the greenhouses, but is concerned about the volumetry generated and the technical risk of such an envelope, mainly for the roof. The form makes the building less efficient in space and operation.
- The response to the program is in contradiction with the PFT, with the main hall on the first floor; the concept proposes services on the first floor and a strolling ramp to the hall, freeing up views on the three (3) facades, including the courtyard of the Biodiversity Center.
- The mechanical concept is well developed and integrated.
- The concept stems from an overall vision with component "A", but does not take into account the site and the simplicity of contact with nature; the object becomes irrelevant in its architectural expression and does not meet the expectations of the program.
- The scale of the project risks undermining the budgetary objective.
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