Ecology Space: Carbon-Negative Pavillion
Digital, CLT, Carbon-Capture Concrete, Cork, Soil, Plants
2020
The Carbon-Negative Pavillion is intended to showcase the potential for large-scale constructions with a negative carbon footprint and an overall positive embodied environment impact. The pavillion showcases completely renewable materials such as cork and CLT, as well as carbon-negative approaches to building through carbon-capture concrete and biophilic architecture. The aim is to show at a small scale techniques and materials and techniques that can be applied to much larger structures. The pavillion is meant to feel immersive beyond its modest footprint, with the slat panel walls and cork-clad interior providing a sense of envelopment while the large CLT beams holding up the roof slats converying a lofty sense of scale. The floor and built-in benches are clad in a charred cork-resin composite material, a resillient and renewable material meant to emulate the textural feeling of soil which dialogues with the abundant use of greenery in the space. The CLT roof and wall slats are set at an angle towards the sun so as to allow the interior green wall to receive ample sunlight, while allowing shade to the seating area at the hottest times of day. The space is entered via a corridor along which the concrete walls slowly slope upwards as one moves into the space, meant to convey a sense of moving downward and slowly being engulfed by the pavillion.