not need to return to the primitive hut to regain a balance with nature. The sophisticated technology of the largest botanical garden shed in the world is a lesson in ecology and a commitment to using recycled materials.
The Eden Project was born from the desire to show how we can recover, and even get to live with nature. To carry out this idea, the architect, Nicholas Grimshaw UK, progress in the investigation of structures with extremely light to rescue a landscape devastated by the operation d and a quarry. During construction of the Eden Project, Grimshaw also developed a system of environmental management control the influence of est ructuras on issues such as flora, natural resources, the atmosphere or the local community. This is due to have become the first major study of architecture in obtaining the ISO 14001 international standard, a certificate that guarantees among its priorities the protection of the environment and prevent pollution in balance with the needs socio-economic ades.
Today Grimshaw was adopted as a design tool to audit your own system, with e l Eva (Environmentally Viable Architecture e) consists of software that checks the impact of a project in each of its stages design and construction.
The Eden Project
Its founder, Tim Smit, is a Dutch anthropologist, composer and music producer who gained popularity for its unusual restoration of "The Gardens of Heligan" in Cornwall. These extraordinary j Ardines Victorian plants showing exotic and innovative horticultural technologies, were razed in 1990 after the great storm that devastated England. The achievement was to regenerate Smit promoting self-sufficiency, for what they have coming, since then, ja be the most visited private rdines Britain.
In 1996, Smit wanted to reach a wider audience to which to convey the importance of the relationship between man and plants. To this end he founded the Eden Project, a large garden with thousands of plants from different climates. This would not be a conventional large-scale greenhouse or a theme park, its basic objective was to encourage visitors learn to strike a balance with nature.
In search of suitable location, Smit found a spot near St Austell, on the peninsula of l southwestern tip of England pointing to the warm waters of the Gulf Stream. It was a large limestone quarry, no longer in use, with an area equivalent to 35 camp years of football and with a depth of 60 meters. Nicholas Grimshaw Smit commissioned a structure that was high enough to accommodate trees of tropical forests and broad enough to give shelter to the sunny Mediterranean landscapes.
Geodesic domes
Due to the instability terrain and its steep slope, Grimshaw proposed that the structure of the greenhouses are lightly pressed against the surface. As if they were soap bubbles containing a specific climate each, he projected a sequence of eight biospheres arranged in two chains, each with four vaults inserted into each other. To build structures ethereal as possible, reused geodesic dome designer, inventor and American environmentalist Buckminster Fuller patented in the late fifties. The principle is to combine geodetic flat surfaces for form a curved shape, allowing to cover more space without internal supports s than any other enclosure in addition to supporting large variations in the edges. Thus, as the structure increases in size is proportionally lighter and stronger.
Based on this principle, Nicholas Grimshaw designed two huge biomes, covering 15,600 square meters and 7,000 respectively, to accommodate the Humid Tropical Conservatory and the Warm Zone. Each biome is protected by q ue vaults are made of galvanized steel tubular sections, mounted and bolted like a giant Meccano set 625 to form hexagons. The whole structure consists of a three-dimensional two-layer network with interconnected spherical curvature, which include almost 4,000 connections and over 11,000 bars, with the largest domes in the 200 meters, 100 meters wide and 55 tall.
The ETFE foil
The huge size of the hexagons, with spans of up to 11 meters, making it impossible to use a single glass cover. In considering materials that are lighter, while tough, the architects found that the sheet of ethyl-tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) was optimum performance. This industrial product that is of common use components of pumps, valves, chemical equipment and electrical machinery, is very transparent to ultraviolet light, is not degraded by sunlight and provides great thermal insulation over the glass, plus 10 times lighter than him. The film, although it is vulnerable to punctures can be easily repaired with tape of the same material is recyclable itself is clean and supports up to 400 times its own weight, ie, it becomes strong enough to maintain the weight of a person.
ETFE was indeed ideal to form a pillow-shaped elements that fits easily into hexagons and adaptation to the geometric variations of the biomes without having to conduct a thorough pre-project. The film forms a triple membrane whose interior is kept constantly inflated by blowing air at low pressure by means of sunscreens. It also took into account the life of this material, which is 25 years, with a design that facilitates easy panel change as new technologies are developed.
To recover the lost nature of the quarry, Grimshaw showed an extraordinary ability to use the sun as main energy source for heating the biomes, and the rain water to moisten. Also used recycled aluminum wood from sustainable forests, using newspaper to insulate and stainless steel gabions filled with gravel and place retaining walls. All these are important materials in our awareness of limited natural resources. Another mechanism to establish direct relationships with the company was working with companies that produce organic foods, natural perfumes and those that promote the use of recycled feedstock in the industry.
The Eden Project continues to evolve: the new Education Resource Centre to open in spring 2005, will build a future Tropics Biome Aggregates, and has already designed the building for access. With a great initiative and knowledge has come to create a new architecture that responds to the balance between nature, tourism and economy. As Buckminster Fuller liked to argue, "there is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance."
Captions:
1. The fascination of Nicholas Grimshaw (born 1939) on the roof "anomalous" was reflected first in the Waterloo International Terminal Railway (London, 1993). His interest in structures not only from the brilliant British engineering tradition: one of his grandparents was responsible for providing proper drainage and sanitation to the city of Dublin, while another built dams in Egypt. (Photographer: Udo Hesse)
2. The eight vaults vary in size, most of them reaching 200 meters long, 100 feet wide and 55 tall. (Photographer: EdenProject)
3. Nicholas Grimshaw explains that "the idea of \u200b\u200busing the cliff was present from the beginning, relying on it. From the first time I saw him. Having a green wall with the building leaning over him, nearly doubles the space. "(Photographer: Grimshaw-architects)
4. This is one of the most visited tourist destinations in England and among its sponsors include the European Commission and the Millennium Commission, which handled the profits of the Primitiva Lottery in Britain. (Photographer: EdenProject)
5. The Eden Project (1996 - 2001) opened its doors in 2000, when the press named him the Eighth Wonder of the World. (Photographer: EdenProject)
The Eden Project
Its founder, Tim Smit, is a Dutch anthropologist, composer and music producer who gained popularity for its unusual restoration of "The Gardens of Heligan" in Cornwall. These extraordinary j Ardines Victorian plants showing exotic and innovative horticultural technologies, were razed in 1990 after the great storm that devastated England. The achievement was to regenerate Smit promoting self-sufficiency, for what they have coming, since then, ja be the most visited private rdines Britain.
In 1996, Smit wanted to reach a wider audience to which to convey the importance of the relationship between man and plants. To this end he founded the Eden Project, a large garden with thousands of plants from different climates. This would not be a conventional large-scale greenhouse or a theme park, its basic objective was to encourage visitors learn to strike a balance with nature.
In search of suitable location, Smit found a spot near St Austell, on the peninsula of l southwestern tip of England pointing to the warm waters of the Gulf Stream. It was a large limestone quarry, no longer in use, with an area equivalent to 35 camp years of football and with a depth of 60 meters. Nicholas Grimshaw Smit commissioned a structure that was high enough to accommodate trees of tropical forests and broad enough to give shelter to the sunny Mediterranean landscapes.
Geodesic domes
Due to the instability terrain and its steep slope, Grimshaw proposed that the structure of the greenhouses are lightly pressed against the surface. As if they were soap bubbles containing a specific climate each, he projected a sequence of eight biospheres arranged in two chains, each with four vaults inserted into each other. To build structures ethereal as possible, reused geodesic dome designer, inventor and American environmentalist Buckminster Fuller patented in the late fifties. The principle is to combine geodetic flat surfaces for form a curved shape, allowing to cover more space without internal supports s than any other enclosure in addition to supporting large variations in the edges. Thus, as the structure increases in size is proportionally lighter and stronger.
Based on this principle, Nicholas Grimshaw designed two huge biomes, covering 15,600 square meters and 7,000 respectively, to accommodate the Humid Tropical Conservatory and the Warm Zone. Each biome is protected by q ue vaults are made of galvanized steel tubular sections, mounted and bolted like a giant Meccano set 625 to form hexagons. The whole structure consists of a three-dimensional two-layer network with interconnected spherical curvature, which include almost 4,000 connections and over 11,000 bars, with the largest domes in the 200 meters, 100 meters wide and 55 tall.
The ETFE foil
The huge size of the hexagons, with spans of up to 11 meters, making it impossible to use a single glass cover. In considering materials that are lighter, while tough, the architects found that the sheet of ethyl-tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) was optimum performance. This industrial product that is of common use components of pumps, valves, chemical equipment and electrical machinery, is very transparent to ultraviolet light, is not degraded by sunlight and provides great thermal insulation over the glass, plus 10 times lighter than him. The film, although it is vulnerable to punctures can be easily repaired with tape of the same material is recyclable itself is clean and supports up to 400 times its own weight, ie, it becomes strong enough to maintain the weight of a person.
ETFE was indeed ideal to form a pillow-shaped elements that fits easily into hexagons and adaptation to the geometric variations of the biomes without having to conduct a thorough pre-project. The film forms a triple membrane whose interior is kept constantly inflated by blowing air at low pressure by means of sunscreens. It also took into account the life of this material, which is 25 years, with a design that facilitates easy panel change as new technologies are developed.
To recover the lost nature of the quarry, Grimshaw showed an extraordinary ability to use the sun as main energy source for heating the biomes, and the rain water to moisten. Also used recycled aluminum wood from sustainable forests, using newspaper to insulate and stainless steel gabions filled with gravel and place retaining walls. All these are important materials in our awareness of limited natural resources. Another mechanism to establish direct relationships with the company was working with companies that produce organic foods, natural perfumes and those that promote the use of recycled feedstock in the industry.
The Eden Project continues to evolve: the new Education Resource Centre to open in spring 2005, will build a future Tropics Biome Aggregates, and has already designed the building for access. With a great initiative and knowledge has come to create a new architecture that responds to the balance between nature, tourism and economy. As Buckminster Fuller liked to argue, "there is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance."
Captions:
1. The fascination of Nicholas Grimshaw (born 1939) on the roof "anomalous" was reflected first in the Waterloo International Terminal Railway (London, 1993). His interest in structures not only from the brilliant British engineering tradition: one of his grandparents was responsible for providing proper drainage and sanitation to the city of Dublin, while another built dams in Egypt. (Photographer: Udo Hesse)
2. The eight vaults vary in size, most of them reaching 200 meters long, 100 feet wide and 55 tall. (Photographer: EdenProject)
3. Nicholas Grimshaw explains that "the idea of \u200b\u200busing the cliff was present from the beginning, relying on it. From the first time I saw him. Having a green wall with the building leaning over him, nearly doubles the space. "(Photographer: Grimshaw-architects)
4. This is one of the most visited tourist destinations in England and among its sponsors include the European Commission and the Millennium Commission, which handled the profits of the Primitiva Lottery in Britain. (Photographer: EdenProject)
5. The Eden Project (1996 - 2001) opened its doors in 2000, when the press named him the Eighth Wonder of the World. (Photographer: EdenProject)
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