Friday, April 15, 2011

DUAL HABITAT - Torino, Italy

Copyright Ecohaven Project 2010


Location: Torino, Italy  
Copyright Ecohaven Project 2010

Dual Habitat – Jennifer Hoffman + Geoff Hoffman

Collaboration: Love Motel for Insects - Brandon Ballengée

Dual Habitat’s Basis of Design:
The main shipping container structure design includes a space for learning + connection.  By day, Dual Habitat’s structure incorporates a vegetative roof with surrounding indigenous plants that provide a habitat + food source for insects + animals.  By night, the Love Motel for Insects installation/collaboration with Ecohaven Project incorporates the use of ultraviolet light to provide a nocturnal habitat for insects.  The collaboration supports the main project concepts of Connection, Education + Sustainability.

Dual Habitat’s sustainable design strategies include: 
  • Designing in a way that minimizes the overall use of materials. 
  • Constructing with local materials, specifying environmentally preferable, salvaged, recycled + re-purposed products to reduce the negative impact on the planet.  
  • Use of indigenous vegetation reduces water usage, maintenance costs + water run-off.  
  • Utilizing white surfaces with a high solar reflectance reduces heat islands.  
  • Incorporating a vegetative roof also decreases heat islands, keeps the structure cooler in the summer/warmer in the winter, decreases water run-off + provides additional acoustics to the educational space. 
  • Exploration of solar energy to reduce carbon emissions with an ultimate goal of zero energy. 



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