City Hills/Eco-quartier

A project via World Architecture News by OVA Studio for a competition in Geneva, Switzerland, falls into the typology of creating surface area by folding building program underneath new landscape surfaces: "City Hills, which generates residential hill-like mounds with green roofs and sides, attempting to integrate the design within its natural surroundings... Our hills containing the various activities (residential, school, warehouses, artist workshops) try to soften the idea of a building, blending them in the landscape that you access easily from the streets. Walls become roofs, roofs become gardens...” said Ouahes. “This is the purpose of our work: Create intelligent, emotional and innovative solutions... For people.”






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