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The dark-green roof has gained momentum as an environmentally conscious and people-pleasing architectural facet — one that will reach its full stature in the course of the year. Making Le Corbusier’s call for rooftop gardens to the extreme, the following A+ Awards winners and nominees amply meld houses with countryside, offering outdoor recreational facilities that enclose the interior space.
The ecosystems of these rooftop homes ask innovative engineering solutions for illuminating, drainage, and load-bearing structure. From ski slopes to systems of pedestrian pathways, these rooftop commons actively hearten urban residents to get outdoors, contributing to their communities while mitigating metropolitan density’s adverse impact.
Quzhou Sports Campus: MAD Architects, Quzhou, China 2020 A+ Awards Jury Vote Winner in Sport& Recreation-Unbuilt Sports& Recreation
Construction is underway on the “vanishing” Sports Campus in Quzhou, which, when accomplished, will be the world’s largest earth-covered building. The verdant lettuce ascents of the brand-new composite will serve as roof, walls, and public space, establishing it impossible to distinguish where the area becomes facade and vice-versa. The pleasure within the sunken plays facilities extends into the public realm through a structure of sinuous pedestrian trails and bike footpaths that echo the curvilinear profile of the complex.
BaseCamp Lyngby: Lars Gitz Architects, Lyngby, Denmark 2020 A+ Awards Nominee in the Residential-Unbuilt- Multi-Unit Housing( S< 10 Storeys)
Nestled amongst the tree-covered landscape of UNESCO-preserved Dhyrehaven park in Denmark, Lars Gitz Architects leverages an undulating rooftop countryside in its inventive approaching to residential design. The serpentine superstructure integrates the rooftop garden and quadrangle typologies within an intergenerational composite that residence students, PhDs, and senior citizen. In addition to promoting a greater appreciation of the environment and chance encounters amongst the various demographics who reside there, the green roof envisages a more sustainable architecture, serving as a rainwater buffer, an breeze purifier, and modulating indoor temperature.
CopenHill/ Amager Bakke Ressourcecenter/ Amagerforbraedingen Waste-to-Energy Plant: BIG- Bjarke Ingels Group, Copenhagen, Denmark 2020 A+ Awards Popular Choice Winner in Commercial-Factories& Warehouses
The long-anticipated CopenHill power plant and metropolitan recreation center officially opened to enormous fanfare last-place month. Located in Copenhagen’s industrial quarter, the rooftop of this waste-to-energy plant will introduce a ski slope, a hiking route, and a rise wall to the area, which has been a long time mecca for extreme sports enthusiasts attempting an alternative space for wakeboarding and go-cart racing. Interposing a dark-green ceiling ecosystem with diverse vegetation, the Bjarke Ingels Group expands the relevant recommendations of what a consume embed can do for its community, asserting that environmental and social sustainability pas hand-in-hand.
Courtyard Kindergarten: MAD Architects, Beijing, China 2020 A+ Awards Popular Vote Winner in Institutional-Kindergartens
Set apart from everyday city life and immersed as it is in the historical setting, the brightly-hued, roof of MAD Architect’s Courtyard Kindergarten provides an otherworldly countryside where preschoolers can safely represent and explore. The new multipurpose construct residences learning facilities that wrap around traditional siheyuan courtyards and pagodas, dating to 1725. The flood area of its ceiling is made of rubbery and breathable plastic, colored in a palette of dynamic vermillion cherry-reds and ochre yellowishes that conjure Beijing’s Forbidden City.
Yulong Snow Mountain Visitor Center: Studio 21 @CCDI Group, Lijiang, China 2020 A+ Awards Nominee in Transportation-Unbuilt Transportation
Conjuring the image of a falling snowflake, five outstretched protrusions reach from Lijiang’s new tourist center’s central atrium. Smooth wooden ramps rise from the sand and extend to the rooftops, inviting visitors to contemplate the awe-inspiring rocky countryside around them and build prospect as they wait for the light rail to transport them to the glacial area. The transfer station not only connects Lijiang old-time town and to the Yulong Snow Mountain, but likewise suffices as a preparatory seat where guests feel the scale and enormity of the desolate landscape around them, which is disappearing at an alarming rate.
Salesforce Transit Center Park: PWP Landscape Architecture ; Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, San Francisco, California 2020 A+ Awards Nominee in Transportation-Transportation Infrastructure
The brand-new Salesforce Transit Center Park in San Francisco’s transforming East Cut place has already become a central public open space for the city’s denizens. The 5.4 -acre rooftop park is a symbol of sustainability with a series of biodiverse botanical gardens, whose large trees aim to cut summer heat and curb carbon emissions from vehicles, in addition to detaining storm water. It is easy to forget that the common crowns the nexus of various regional, district, and national transit systems; yet, the multifunctional dark-green ceiling is more than a haven for passengers. It caters welcome respite from city living and acts as a recreation neighbourhood for neighbourhoods as well.
CIFI Donut Kindergarten: THDL( Tianhua Design Lab ), Anhui, China 2020 A+ Awards Nominee in Institutional-Kindergartens
As the spirited pasty note in its list shows, the CIFI Donut Kindergarten implements multi-level, devious terraces to integrate three-stories of educational space with the inventive neighborhoods for children to play. The project’s energy mimics from the centrifugal ramp that spirals around a tree in the central court. Elevated above the ground level, the dynamic dark-green ceiling is an architectural landscape that maximizes sunlight age and fresh air exposure for young students, who are encouraged to frolic as they move between classrooms on the hover pathways.
Musee Atelier Audemars-Piguet, BIG- Bjarke Ingels Group, Le Brassus, Le Chenit, Switzerland 2020 A+ Awards Popular Choice Winner in Cultural-Museum
Two curving spiralings define the Musee Atelier Audemars-Piguet, a modern, organic sort that boldly informs the original shop of the neighbourhood watch-makers c 1875. The pavilion’s twisted glass walls buoy a dark-green ceiling, which pragmatically absorbs water and settles the buildings’ temperature. The helical form praises the circumventing landscape and adapts to the natural gradients of the Swiss topography. Simultaneously, the coiled light-green slopes stimulate the internal car-mechanics that spur a timepieces’ turning mitts, abstractly hinting at the objects displayed within its glass walls.
Natural Wisdom, Architectural Creation& Research Studio, Tus-Design Group, Suzhou, China 2020 A+ Awards Nominee in Architecture+ Sustainability
Natural Wisdom represents both the name of this project and the driving reasoning behind its plan — preserving of the ecology of the Dongtaihu Lake region was paramount to the designers. To make their intervention as discreet as possible, the architectural crew chose to sink the warehouse into the ground, integrating it into the environment while remaining mindful of the floodplain. Though the warehouse is separated from the main leisure areas of the lakeside, it is masked in such a way that the site materializes as if it were an extension of the park domain that environs it.
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