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| PROJECT:
ARC |
| LOCATION:
Hull, UK |
| CLIENT: Humber Centre for Excellence in the Built Environment |
| BUDGET:
£550K |
| COMPLETION:
2006 |
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The
design aims to relate the built environment to the wider environment
as a whole. The building itself is an education tool, it overtly expresses
the processes that enabled it to function, both structurally and environmentally.
The building is like a metabolism, it's expression falls between
botany and geology.
The building's structure takes its cues from the estuarine
nature of the landscape around Hull. The building floats on a raft of timber floor cassettes supported by
pre-cast concrete pad foundations bearing down onto the hardcore and estuarine
mud found on the site. The building is formed from a kit of parts that
can be assembled and re-assembled on future sites.
The building is powered by renewable energy sources and an array of
wind turbines and photovoltaics stand outside the front of the building
like a mechanical garden. |
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