ECO-BALANCE
This design school will teach students of the future, in
most forms of design, how to properly design for the environment, not just for
people’s consumption. All of the programs (fabrication, architecture, fashion,
art, technology) contribute to the world’s pollution in some form or another.
Each program focuses specifically on sustainability and environmentally
friendly ways to design and create. This building is also meant to create connections
between disciplines, creating different types of degrees like
fashion-photography or landscape-sculpting because so often disciplines are separated
for each other when they should learn and grow together.
The building’s interior was inspired by oyster mushrooms. Their different levels and sizes of caps all connecting at a single point through the stems. The skin of the building was meant to generate inspiration through its abnormal shape, which is essentially a blanket that wraps around the mushroomed floors, incasing the connected students in the school designed for design.
The building’s interior was inspired by oyster mushrooms. Their different levels and sizes of caps all connecting at a single point through the stems. The skin of the building was meant to generate inspiration through its abnormal shape, which is essentially a blanket that wraps around the mushroomed floors, incasing the connected students in the school designed for design.