Tao Zhu Yin Yuan Tower in Taipei, Taiwan: Agora Garden With 23,000 Trees by Vincent Callebaut
Geschreven op 18-8-2017 - Erik van Erne. Geplaatst in Bouwen-Klussen
The Agora Garden skyscraper is a a plant-covered twisting tower shaped like a DNA strand by Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut in Taipei, Taiwan.
Described by Vincent Callebaut as neither single tower, nor twin towers, the 20-storey Agora Garden apartment block is designed with a double-helix structure that twists up around a fixed central core.
Different from the modern city built of concrete, glass and steel, the Agora Garden tower appears in an urban centre as a green twisted mountain, Balconies on each floor will be filled with plants, vegetable gardens and fruit trees, creating a cascading layer of greenery across the exterior. These will enable residents to grow their own food and compost all their biodegradable waste.
Between two and four apartments will be located on each floor of the building and will integrate a number of sustainable technologies, including rainwater-harvesting and solar energy.
In the heart of the urban networks of Xinyin District in full development, the Agora Garden project presents a pioneer concept of sustainable residential eco-construction that aims at limiting the ecologic footprint of its inhabitants by researching the right symbiosis between the human being and the Nature. See also: Lilypad City: The Floating City Ecopolis by Vincent Callenbaut
On this site that is the last and only biggest parcel of land for residential use, the concept is to build a true fragment of vertical landscape with low energetic consumption. The building is thus eco-designed. It integrates not only the recycling of organic waste and used water but also all the renewable energies and other new state-of-the-art nanotechnologies (BIPV solar photovoltaic, rain water recycling, compost, etc.).
The project targets thus the energetic performance so as to be officially approved by the Green Building Label, the norm for high environmental quality, delivered by the Home Affairs Ministry of Taipei.
See also: Forest City in Liuzhou, Guangxi Province, China by Stefano Boeri Architetti – China’s Forest City Shijiazhuang: A Model of Sustainable Growth Running on Renewable Energy – China’s Solar City Dezhou: Secrets of The World’s First Solar City by China Icons – China’s Eco-City Tianjin: The Sino-Singapore Eco-City with High Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy – Vertical Village in Dubai by Graft: Harvests the Sun with Vats Array of Solar Panels – The Vertical Farm: A Keystone Concept for the Ecocity by Dickson Despommier at TEDxWarwick – Santalaia in Bogotá, Colombia: An Amazing Vertical Garden – A Living Building –Iconic School of Art, Design and Media in Singapore – Forest City Johor in Iskandar Malaysia, next to Singapore by Country Garden Pacific View (CGPV) – Wonderwoods in het Utrechts Stationsgebied by Stefano Boeri Architetti en MVSA Architects
