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Copyright Ecohaven Project 2010 |
Location: Torino, Italy
Competition: The PAV Biosphere: Inner and Outer Osmotic Boundaries
Project Submission: Dual Habitat by Ecohaven Project with Love Motel for Insects by Brandon Ballengée
Project Submission: Dual Habitat by Ecohaven Project with Love Motel for Insects by Brandon Ballengée
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| 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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