Gardeners workshop, competition prize winner

The walls are made out of plant shelves; the roof is covered with grass with a seamless transition to the living facade.
Glass surfaces are shaded by dark wooden fins.
From the park perspective the building itself is camouflaged.
The key design criteria were primly to optimize the relation of surface to volume and the understanding of the building as a cybernetic system.

Date

2009

Category

Competition, Ecological Construction, Prizes