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1.5C ARCHITECTURE AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
|SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE | GROUP PROJECT|FACADE DESIGN |CRITIC : HERWIG BAUMGARTNER & GARRETT SUTHERLIN SANTO| |1.5C ARCHITECTURE AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE|
As one of the largest cities in the world, LA faces a range of environmental issues, in particular air pollution. Automotive, cargo ship, rail, and industrial exhaust all reduce air quality across the Los Angeles Basin. With CO2 emissions more than double the allowable threshold, we wanted to design a system for the Continental Building that not only mitigates CO2 emissions in the city but also produces oxygen. Our project proposes a facade system that is able to scrub the CO2 generated around it in downtown LA and feeds the captured CO2 to an algae farm embedded in a ceramic shade structure, creating both clean oxygen and valuable algae-based products and materials.
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Watch video here: https://bplusu.com/research/7/15C-Architecture-AgainstClimate-Change--Project-1 https://sutherlinsanto.com/AlgaeClad
