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CONTENTS

CONTENTS

5 4 HAND SKETCHING SALES CENTERS

WHISPERS IN THE BAMBOO FOREST 1

Project Type : Medical Clinic

Year: 2022 Winter Area:

1540 sq ft

Location:

530 Spring Street, Winthrop, AR

Client: Dr. Janice Rockefeller

DESIGN CONCEPT

BAMBOO -- INTEGRITY . HEALTH

B amboo is a naturally sustainable material as the primary material and inspiration of the clinic. The bamboo’s unique properties of strong, flexible, and evergreen. The bamboo forest sways with even the slightest breeze while their trunks stay rooted firmly in the ground below. The characteristics are reminiscent of integrity, tenacity, and humility. Dr. Janice Rockefeller desired to change the “Under-served Area and Population” healthcare status of the town of Winthrop. Her vision reflects the character of bamboo and gives back to the community.

The interior design uses natural health materials and imagery to create a harmonic and relaxing space. Promoting health programs and the responsibility of the community.

EXISTING CONDITION

1913 Colonial Revival-style school

that listed in Arkansas Register of Historic Places on 11/7/01.

Location at half of the first floor of the building.

Ceilings height is 11’-0”.

BLOCK DIAGRAM PLAN

FLOOR PLAN

FLOOR FF&E PLAN

COLOR SCHEMES

BIOPHILIC ELEMENTS

BIOPHILIC ELEMENTS

Dynamic Lights

Biomorphic Form & Patterns

Natural Materials

AERIAL MODEL

T

he clinic interior uses a biophilia-based design that brings maximal natural light into every single space to bring a better wellness experience. Using bamboo-colored 360° rotation vertical louvers behind the glass curtain walls not only keeps the patient’s privacy but also brings rich natural light into the gray corridor space, which gives people an “alive” sense when walking through. The application of vertical lines from endless bamboo, such as doors and trimmers, bookshelves, and louvers accentuates the advanvvvtages of the tall ceilings. The ceiling LED linear lights give the feeling of a breeze whispering through the bamboo forest.

Vertical bamboo-colored louvers behind the glass curtain walls break down the “grey” corridors. The louvers can have 360° rotation to keep the patient’s privacy and bring rich natural light into the corridor, which gives people an “alive” sense when walking through.

1 WAITING AREA

Except for the regular waiting area, this area contains an accessible area and kids waiting area. Kid’s area adopts softly curved sofas for safety and reduces sharing of items to avoid cross-infection. The circinate starry lights above head like wind whisper.

2 LOBBY AREA

The application of natural bamboo is the primary material in the space. Celadon-colored stone paves following a natural pattern. With white marble and copper doors, trimmers bring a neat and warm atmosphere.

3 RECEPTION AREA

The reception area contains an accessible counter and self-check-in devices for convenience to visitors. Linear led lights to bring the pattern of bamboo and accent space division.

4 EXAM ROOM

All exam rooms connect with natural light and views. Follow bamboo -- the biomorphic materials, colors, and patterns merge into the space, bringing patients a feeling of relaxation and attention.

SUSTAINABLE MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS

BAMBOO FLOOR

Brand:

Series: Size: Finish: Edges: Grooved:

MOSO

Bamboo X-treme ® Beams

1’-1/2” x 6’ x 73’-1/4”

Unfinished Square Edge No

BAMBOO BEAMS

Brand: Series:

Size: Finish: Edges: Installation:

MOSO

Bamboo Supreme

96mm x 10mm x 920mm

Lacquer (extra matt)

Nano Bevel

Fully glued

BAMBOO VENEER

Brand: Series: style:

Size:

MOSO

Bamboo Veneer

High Density ®

2500mm x 0.5mm x 1250mm

FSC ® certification

LEED & BREEAM

WUI approved decking and siding

Fire safety wall/ceiling

Fire safety flooring

Durability class

FSC ® certification

LEED & BREEAM

WUI approved decking and siding

Fire safety wall/ceiling

Fire safety flooring

Durability class

FSC ® certification

LEED & BREEAM

WUI approved decking and siding

Fire safety wall/ceiling

Fire safety flooring

Durability class

WINDOWS

Brand:

Series:

System:

Finishes :

KAWNEER COMPANY, INC

OptiQ ® AA ® 5450 Series Windows

Polyamide Thermal Barrier

Architectural Anodized Finishes and Applied Coatings

WINDOW SHADES

Brand: Color:

Materials:

Composition:

Fabric Style:

Mermet ® USA

Shadow

GREENSCREEN EVOLVE ® fabircs

100% polyester / 78% recycled content

Warp Knit

LEED ® *

Declare (Red list free)

Cradle to Cradle Certified ™

Declare

GREENGUARD Gold Certified

RoHS

HPD

NFPA 701

5 YEAR INTERIOR

WALL PAINT

Brand: Dry time: Sheen: Features: Paint type:

BACKDROP

60 min to touch, 3-4 hrs to recoat

6% Sheen level

High durability, low odor, low voc, applies easily, washable

Acrylic

Green Wise Certified

climate neutral certified company

2 BIMES ECO BLOCK COMPLEX

Project Type

ECO Community Complex

Year

2022 Spring Location

55 S Atlantic St #205, Seattle, WA 98134

Demographics

The site location is in King County. The largest city in Washington and Pacific Northwest region. 14th largest in the US. Population: 787,995 (2020) city, 3.5M greater metro. Total span 142 miles. The density of 9,396 people per square mile.

Existing conditions

As an abandoned formerly industrial space, it is a greyfield land where located in pioneer square in downtown Seattle.

Mixed Use

Combine commercial and residential usage. Including residence, office, restaurant, brewery, organic market, retails, entertainment, vertical farm factory, event space, gym & yoga studio, and training facility.

Vision

Provide housing and employment for houseless people while providing enrichment for the whole community and environment. A community block that is not only sustainable but contributes to the community & environment.

SWOT

Population Growth: 1.47% annually, Increasing 30% in 10 years

Ethnic diversity: increasing in diversity (40%) International migration, 10% Asian speaking households, 4.5%

Spanish speaking

Growing Industries: aerospace, clean technology, information & communication technology, life sciences/global health, maritime, tech start-up

Climate threats: earthquakes

INDEX

S ite Area : 237,580 sq ft

Site Coverage area: 141,098 sq ft

Site Coverage ratio: 59.39%

Block A: 435,488 sq ft

Block B: 66,400 sq ft

Block C: 60,762 sq ft

block D: 10,128 sq ft

Cumulative area: 572,778 sq ft

Residential Usage area: 344,880 sq ft

Ratio: 60.21%

Dwelling Units: app. 328

Commercial Usage area: 227,898 sq ft

Ratio: 39.79%

FAR ratio: 2.41

Open Space Area: 150,880 sq ft

January Solar analysis

April Solar analysis

July Solar analysis

October Solar analysis

ECO BLOCK TRANFORMATIONY ECOBLOCK ENTRANCES ANALYSIS

To ferries & highway

To entertainment & public transportasion

Entrance from

The site is an abandoned middle-density industrial space in Pioneer Square, Seattle.

The building and its surrounding block will be the site of an ecological transformation.

ECO BLOCK TRANFORMATIONY

Entrances from

To retail & public transportasion

ECOBLOCK FUNCTION ANALYSIS

MIXED HIGH-RISE BLOCK A

(residention / commercial)

Isolation noise from hignway / wind & solar energy collection on the rooftop

HISTORIC BLOCK D

(historic building / office)

COMMERCIAL LOW-RISE BLOCK B

(entertainment / retail)

GREEN BLOCK C

(vertical farming academy / factory / organic market / restaurant)

PV Array

Block A is the highest building outfitted with an array of PV modules angled precisely to capture a great amount of sunlight and provide the entire block with net positive energy needs. Energy-capturing wind kites on the rooftop as supplemented.

Block A

In the eight-story high-rise mix-used building, the top six-story are residential, and the first two-story are commercial, including community resources and a help center. This building is a barrier to the southwest wind from the Pacific Ocean and the highway acoustic insulation on the western side of the block. The residential building uses two sky gardens and an atrium to connect all tenants to easy indoor and outdoor living.

Biophilic design

This exquisite block features visual and non-visual connections to the nature around it. The site is overflowing with greenery –from the drought-resistant, native plant landscape to the green roofs and the vertical gardens – which visitors and residents can enjoy from the walking paths throughout the block or from inside through large low-E glass windows. Strategic usage of windows and skylights creates varying biophilic lighting that both creates visual interest and supports an aligned circadian rhythm. The flora attracts the fauna, so the landscape is filled with local birds, creating a melodious natural soundscape.

Block B

The two-story commercial building contains a yoga studio and a brewery, connected with Block A at the ground level.

Energy

Blocks utilize nature with daylighting windows that cut the need to use electricity. Water heating is generated by underground thermal pumps, also lowering energy needs. All Blocks are equipped with energy-saving features and sustainable materials.

FUNCTIONAL DETAIL DEMONSTRATION

Block D

This five-story office building renovates in combination with the Bemis historic building that has stood for over 100 years as a part of Seattle’s historical architectural landscape. The four buildings enclose a central area and have green roofs on all blocks, with sky gardens to provide plenty of activity areas to enhance human well-being.

Block C

This three-story commercial building has a vertical farming factory and a fresh organic market on the first two floors, a restaurant on the third floor, and a rooftop. The vertical farming factory is an education, research, and training facility that provides fresh produce to the restaurant and organic market. A living machine combined with Block C as an element of biophilic design to enhance human-water interaction, treat wastewater for farming and green roof irrigation use, and even produce edible plants and fish suitable for the fresh market and organic restaurants.

Sustainable Materials

Materials from this project have thoughtfully considered eliminating VOCs and preventing “building sickness.” Declare products that meet the LBC standards for transparency and chemical safety. The interior architecture reuses the bricks of the original building at the site as well as other reused and recycled materials such as glass, steel, and wood.

Walkable Community

The Eco-block is located in the central area of Seattle, that easy access to public railways, buses, ferries, and highways. As a walkable area, it is also suitable for bikers. Limited underground parking spots for green power vehicles only. Shower rooms are designed for bikers to support a human-powered living style.

Building Form

The structures comprising the Eco-block started as four rectangular forms. The height of the blocks gradually increases from south to north to ensure the maximum natural sunlight of the site.

Seattle Annual Humidity and Rainfall Data

W ater Saving Strategy Diagram

Blackwater to Living Mechine

Cooling Tower Makeup Water

Block C West Section with Water Feature

HOLDING TANK RESUED WATER TANK

living machine water feature

FILTERATION

High Efficiency Toilet

LIVING MACHINE SYSTEM

Diagram of the Living Machine

Rainwater From PV Arry Gutten

Rainwater From Roof Gray Water

Rainfall inches for Seattle: 37 inch per year

Rooftop area: 143,960 sq ft

Rainwater capture: 3,318,422 gallons per year

Water Saving Fixtures Calculation

Residential /Year

note:

1. according to the building index, residential building average has 1050 sq ft per dwelling unit.

2. presuming 3 b.r. and 2 r.r. with four occupants per unit.

Irrigation Greenroof

Organic Manure for Grreenroof

Blackwater to Composting Toilet

to High Efficiency Toilet

Composting Toilet

Overflow to Sewer Line

Commercial / Year

note:

1. according to the building index, the commercial area is 2/3 of the residential area.

2. business fixtures rate per capita lower than residential function. presuming the toilets, urinals, and faucets quantities are 1/3 of residential. Presuming kitchen faucets, shower faucets require quantities are 60.

3. commercial toilets and urinals are used composting system, no water is needed.

The kite can reach higher heights than a typical wind turbine and access stronger winds.

Mechanical energy is transferred down the tether to the ground station where it is converted into electrical power.

Solar panels are oriented toward the south to capture the greatest amount of sunlight.

The DC power is converted to AC power at the inverter on the side of the building.

Heat pump converts 53° water from for heating the building.

Heat pump uses a compressor to temperature in the radiant heat A network of pipes laid before concrete vide heating and cooling for the

Seattle Solar Energy Data

Seattle Temperature Data

Seattle Wind Energy Data Geothermal Systems Strategy

from underground tubes to 95°

to extract heat and increase system.

concrete floors are poured proentire building.

Human / Green Power Transit

Led Light Source Energy Saving Calculation

Note: according to Table C405.3.2(1) using the Building Area Metho

Residential area: 344,880 sq ft 206,928 LPD (w/ft2) 2,040 bulbs

Commercial area: 227,898 sq ft 182,318 LPD (w/ft2) 2,430 bulbs

Total: 4,470 bulbs

The Eco-block is in a prime location to be accessed by food, bicycle, ferries , buses, railways etc. public transit.

Dense, diverse neighborhoods encourage walking, bicycling and transit.

There are shower rooms for bikers to support a human powered living style.

Limited parking spots underground for green power cars only.

Total:

LED bulbs than incandescent bulbs save 864,498 kwh/year

LED bulbs than cfl bulbs save 113,985 kwh/year

Note: estimate an individual fixture cost of ownership 1year period: Lights are on 10 hours per day, seven days per week, 52 weeks per year

Passive Ventilation Strategy

1. Cool breezes from the ground into the building through the atrium, using its buoyancy to blow the hot air off from the louvered vent.

2. Use shades to block extra sun heat. Use operable windows to control indoor airflow.

Passive Lighting Strategy

1. Use glazed skylights to bring natural lighting into the atrium, diffusing reflections of light-colored walls and bringing the building’s interior nature clean lighting energy.

2. Use blinds to control the angle of sunlight to achieve the best results.

Operatable Windows with Shades and Blinds

Nature Light

Glazed Skylights

Green Roof

Hot Air blow out

Louvered Vent

Over Flow Rainwater Collection

Gutter

Hot Air

Raise

Envelope Insulation Strategy

High-Performance windows insulation

Glazing Option: triple, argon gas-filled glazing

Frame: made of low conductive materials (with C2C certificated wood)

Insulation Material R-Value Rate

Atrium

Green Solution Strategy

Standard intensive green-roof

Traditional Vs. Sustainable Wall Insulation

Declare. Materials

Material: used tire ourdoor floor

Material: Fernale Ready Mix & Gravel Fly Ash Concrete

Location: Ecoblock Construction

ECO Block Exterior Materials

A full range of facade solutions generating energy using built-in photovoltaic cells. The range is divided into transparent and opaque solutions.

Location: ECO Block south facade

Material: SunEwat BIPV Glass

Brand: AGC

Certification: C2C

Material: Paving Stones

Brand: GODELMANN GMBH & CO. KG

Certification: C2C

Material: outdoor wood / window frames

Brand: Accoya® Wood

Certification: C2C / fsc

Material: Quartzite stone

Brand: LAS VEGAS ROCK, INC.

Certification: C2C

Skylights of block c rooftop restaurant leverages varying intensities of light and shadow that change over time to create conditions that occur in nature.

activity, in which humans and other wildlife are protected physically and mentally.

Biomorphic Forms & Patterns

Biomorphic Forms & Patterns

Block A openning activity areas have unimpeded views over a distance.

Green roofs are withdrawn from environmental conditions and the main flow of

Block C restaurant changes in from horizontal level.

Facade of “block a” is biomorphic in form.

Block C restaurant rooftop biomorphic in form.

Variability

Non-Visual Connection with Nature

Presence of Water

in air temperature, relative humidity

Block C water fountain in living machine provide a nonvisual experience of nature that engender a deliberate and positive reference to nature, living systems or natural processes.

Patterns

Living machine in block c enhances the experience of a place through seeing, hearing or touching water.

Material Connection with Nature

Complexity & Order

to

Block C restaurant roof use natral wood material facade use natral stones material Connection with Nature.

rooftop frame using fabrics wave is

Block C restaurant spiral staircase adheres to a spatial hierarchy similar

encountered conch shells in nature.

ECO BLOCK C ECOLOGICAL CYCLE DIAGRAM

ORGANIC RESTAURANT FRESH MARKET

Composting plant fertilizer vertical farming

GREEN ROOF

VERTICAL FARMING FACTORY

Edible

Produce edible vegetables and fish are suitable for the fresh market and the organic restaurant.

ECO RESTAURANT CONCEPT

Wastewater Traetment

Living Machine treats eco block’s wastewater without using chemicals by mimicking the cleansing properties of wetlands.

WATER VIEW

Integrate biophilic design to realize human-water interaction. Enhance the experience by seeing, hearing, or touching the water.

The restaurant’s inspiration draws from the coastline of Puget Sound by using neutral colors of beige and grey as base tones, with subtle hues of materials are from the “Declare. list.” A boat-shaped wood frame was placed on the rooftop, with a fabric suspension curtain mimicking ocean waves. both indoor and outdoor dining & bar areas, and additional rooftop lounge spaces. Doors of the restaurant can be opened on all three sides of the building to the outdoor dining space. The combination of plants with water features easily brings feelings of relaxation while maintaining an intimate connection

Composting toilets produce fertilizer green roof / farming irrigation.

ECOBLOCK C RESTAURANT PLAN

REUSETANK

Treated water for green roof / vertical farming irrigation.

ECOBLOCK C RESTAURANT ROOF PLAN

green and blue. All waves. The restaurant has building and extended connection with nature.

ECOBLOCK C RESTAURANT ROOF WOODFRAME PLAN

ECOBLOCK C RESTAURANT ELEVATION

ECOBLOCK C RESTAURANT AERIAL MODEL

C R oof Restaurant 3D view

D Roof Restaurant 3D view

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