"The natural world offers myriad forms of value in education, exploration, aesthetic experience, and irreplaceable products and services." - E.O. Wilson
Conceptual study for an international conference center on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica (C.R.C.C.).
The bionic building design responds to the extreme coastal climate with its strong winds, dry summers and heavy rainfalls in wet season. The harvesting of natural resources generates a small energetic footprint of the building group that responds to its small physical footprint on the surrounding tropical landscape. The building program includes the meeting facilities as well as a five star hotel and a full media library focusing on biodiversity; one section of the building group proposes a museum dedicated to Edward Osborne Wilson's theory of Consilience.
The cupolas of the individual buildings are designed to allow for scientific research on the worlds' fauna and flora. The biosphere is the broadest level of ecological study, the global sum of all ecosystems.
The C.R.C.C. is projected to house important international events in regards to climate change and protection.
Credit
Oliver Schütte with Ronald Fonseca and Ana Eugenia Fernandez.
San Jose, Costa Rica, 2006 - 2007.