ECO BUILDING: LOW DENSITY HOUSING ECOLOGICAL CITY BLOCK UTOPIA, BARCELONA
DESIGN SYNTHESIS 2019-20
MAEBB - IAAC
INTRODUCTION When considering what makes an ecological building, it is useful to see its physical incarnation as a snapshot of a larger network of metabolic systems. The materials that compose the final product are the results of not only the raw materials and transformation processes that they undergo, but the assemblage of industrial regimes that produced those materials.
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Our project focuses less on shifting the paradigm around the visual appearance of a building, opting instead for a fairly simple massing strategy. Instead, it is the way in which the materials are deployed that create a truly new dimension of design. The building is composed almost entirely of wood, utilizing massive timber CLT panels, glulam columns, and raw timber struts.
