The Fallen Leaf, designed by Eric Rodrigues, has been named the first-place winner of the competition for the new Sylvan open air theatre in Cherkasy City Park, Ukraine. With a plan to demolish the old building, the new theatre is inspired by nature: it integrates into the landscape of the Cherkasy municipal park and uses only natural and locally sourced stone and wood. The form of the glue laminated timber roof is that of a falling leaf, whose organic slope helps to enhance the theatre’s acoustics.
Further strengthening the design’s acoustics and relationship to site, the theatre works below ground level, with an auditorium that holds 700 people. On the lower level, a courtyard provides natural light and ventilation and can also accommodate a bar setup. Also underground is the backstage area, including storage, changing rooms, and restrooms. Two areas accommodate guests with disabilities at the ground and lower levels.
The design uses the natural slope of the site to augment seating capacity, which spans from the built theatre onto the green slope. The seating area is defined by concrete-supported soil and vegetation, blending the building into the landscape.
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Total Engineer Team RSVP has unveiled the renovation design for the Main Building of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, which, once completed, will be the most sustainable university building in the world. On September 27, the design was awarded as BREEAM Outstanding under the BREEAM-NL sustainability label of the Netherlands, with a score of 93.86%.
The university building, which will be called Atlas upon completion, was designed by a multidisciplinary team consisting of Team V (architect), Van Rossum (construction engineer), Valstar Simonis (building installations engineer), and Peutz (building physics engineer and sustainability expert).
We are really proud of and pleased with this result, says Jo van Ham, vice-president of the TU/e executive board. Sustainability is a hugely important theme in our education and research, and this also means taking the lead in terms of our buildings and operations. We have been investing extra in sustainability for fifteen years now, with campus-wide geothermal storage one of the outcomes. This geothermal system is one of the biggest in Europe.
This geothermal system will replace the building’s previous gas connection, and will work alongside solar panels, which will provide energy to cover most of the building’s power requirements.
The building will additionally feature smart and efficient LED lighting—controllable by users via an app—as well as a triple-glazed curtain wall paired with interior sun blinds, and a “night flush” system that will side windows outwards during summer nights in order to cool the building and purify the air.
In combination, all of these sustainability initiatives will reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of the building by 80 percent, even though the number of users in the building will more than double after the renovation.
Upon completion in the summer of 2018, the Atlas building will function as a living lab for research on innovative and sustainable technologies.
News via Team V Architecture.
Big Blue by olikristinn Glacial river Jökulsá is quite short – Jökulsá á Breiðamerkursandi er ekki löng – View On Black http://flic.kr/p/7DKa8r
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