Thursday, October 21, 2010

The Daily Three | 10.21.10

I'm excited about a new way to get exposure to the massive amounts of projects out there in the realm of vegitecture.  I thought a reasonable way to deal with the backlog was to give a daily trifecta of projects.  Here's the first edition.

A great new project just presented was the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum, by Belzberg Architects - featuring multiple vegetated planes.

:: image via Arch Daily

Interesting to see the visuals of this in concept, which show a much more uniform vegetated coverage of the renderings, in sharp constrast,belying the sparseness (and much more interesting) reality.

:: image via lamoth

Another project worth checking out is the SAP America Headquarters by FXFOWLE - featuring green roof as part of the overall building microclimate strategy (via Inhabitat).  "A large green roof covers the entire building, providing insulation and reducing heat gain, while rainwater collectors trap rainwater for storage in a 50,000-gallon cistern that supplies water for landscape irrigation and the flushing of toilets in some of the building’s bathrooms. Native and regional vegetation are used in the landscaping."


:: images via Inhabitat

Finally, the simple green roof from the Lighthouse Stadium in Belfort, France - featuring a green roof to complement a glowing facade.

:: image via Inhabitat

Posted by Jason King at 11:12 PM
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1 comments:

  1. Alana ArmstrongOct 22, 2010 02:19 PM
    Jason,
    I just walked through the roof scape of the LA Holocaust museum two weeks ago. Intriguing form, but to the user, it's useless. Being this building sits right next to a large public park, with a high potential for visitors besides those visiting the museum, it could have hosted a nice quiet space to read a book. Unfortunately there's no space to sit or even nice vegetation to look at. Sadly, I think the only people who will really visit the roofscape are those interested in design. It's a nice exploration and exposure but just wished the human was considered more intimately with the roof. I hope they later redesign the garden aspect, that will be its attractor.
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