Spirala Home (Competition Project)

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This award winning competition project shows an community home that will provide plenty of space for residents and visitors to connect, share and explore. The building is constructed with a simple and sustainable combination of rammed clay and wood. The building consists of a central room and a further meeting room, kitchen, lavatory, storage room. All rooms are well lit through radially oriented glass facades and skylights. Furthermore, the layout of our building creates seamlessly transition between exterior, inter and interior spaces enabling an optimized usage throughout the year.

During the development of the building the main focus was to keep the environmental footprint as low as possible. To achieve this goal, not just the building materials have been carefully chosen but also the overall design has been adapted to the topography. All load-bearing walls as well as the floor and the shingles are built from clay found at or near the construction side. The roof and facade are constructed with locally cleared wood. The whole building lies on strip foundations made of clay bricks.

As a meeting place for the entire village and welcoming area for guests and travelers, the community home was designed to be a multifunctional structure. With its two separate event rooms it creates spaces for many different usages such as gatherings, theatre, dining, indoor sports and many more. The interspaces allow for even more space and possibilities during the warmer summer months. Since the building is constructed right in the middle of the village these interspaces do not just act as meeting points, but also as a communal passage connecting all parts of the village.

SkyForest (Competition Project)

Every year more than 12 million hectares of rainforest get destroyed. Many countries/industry’ burn millions of square meters of rainforest in order to get more space for slash and burn agriculture. This project has the goal to drastically reduce the expansion of agriculture and human interference in the rainforest. My partner and I want to achieve this by establishing sustainable and long-term agriculture in the already burned down spaces.

Currently there are many problems why long-term agriculture is not possible. By burning down the vegetation the ecosystem gets disrupted and the earth gets subjected to high sun intensity, monsoons and reduction of air humidity. All this leads to an infertile and unusable earth.

Our tower will solve these problems by giving the vulnerable earth a new protective skin. The building consists out of a central tower build form recycled containers as well as a translucent membrane. The membrane wraps the tower and ends in a huge oval and concave “roof”, protecting the earth below from monsoon and re-establishing the humid climate. While small amounts of water can get through the membrane, most of the rain will flow towards the tower, where it is channelled and released into a river.




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