Assignment Description

Over the semester our assessment requires us to re-imagine the Australian Capital Territory and produce a vision for the A.C.T. in the 21st century. Developing a strategy for the city and the national parliament which it houses, identifying the infrastructure relevant to a 21st century city and investigating appropriate architectural types for a city which represents Australia. From this basis we will ultimately produce an architectural proposal which seeks to address these issues and provide 'A Place for People'.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Flexible Skin - Flexible Services

CH2 Melbourne
Architect: DesignInc. Melbourne

Architecture based on biomimicry. CH2 utilizes a flexible skin for climate response and night purge insures flexible services. Flexible features which contribute to the buildings climatic response include: Shower towers for evaporative cooling, chilled beams through ceilings, displacement air conditioning, vertical planting, wind turbines and photovoltaic cells for energy generation.
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