RAMMED EARTH WALL in Van Dusen Botanical Garden. Canada

Описание: VANDUSEN BOTANICAL GARDEN VISITOR CENTRE.
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Architect: Perkins+Will
https://perkinswill.com/

Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Completion: August 2011
Project Budget: $21.9 million

Building Area: 1,765 SM (19,000 SF)
Sustainability Targets: Living Building Challenge LEED®
New Construction v 1.0 Platinum Registered Visitor Centre

VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre in Vancouver, BC is designed to meet the Living Building Challenge, the most rigorous set of requirements of sustainability. Formally and functionally, it encompasses the goals of environmentally and socially conscious design.

The dynamic single-story structure includes an innovative prefabricated roof form that appears to float above the building’s curved rammed earth and concrete walls. Metaphorically representing undulating petals, the building form flows seamlessly into a central oculus and the surrounding landscape.

The building is an undulating landscape of interior and exterior spaces rising from ground to roof level and providing a vast surface area on which vegetation could grow, thus reoccupying the land on which the building sits with the landscape. The building also features numerous passive and active systems that reuse the site’s renewable resources and the building’s own waste.

Officially opened in October 2011, the $21.9 million (Canadian dollars) one-story 19,000 square-foot Visitor Centre – which houses a café, library, volunteer facilities, a garden shop, office space and flexible classroom spaces – achieves both goals with an iconic design reflective of the organic forms and natural systems of a native orchid. Submitted for LEED New Construction v 1.0 Platinum status, the Visitor Centre also will be submitted to the International Future Living Institute’s Living Building Challenge – the most stringent measurement of sustainability in the built environment

Materials and Resources: Perkins+Will chose materials according to their health, carbon footprint, ability to be recycled and their individual life cycles to choose to most appropriate and long-lasting components.

Beauty and Inspiration: The building is designed not only to inspire a celebration of the Garden and landscape, but to invest and show consideration for the environment through building systems and promote a social understanding of the balance between human activities and natural ecosystems.