Sandwich Garden
Team
Name: Zhan Ran
Nationality: China
Institution / Company: Beijing Institute of Architectural Design
Name: Xiaohan Ding
Nationality: China
Institution / Company: Beijing Institute of Architectural Design
– HONOURABLE MENTION of Manhattan Wildscaper Competition
Buildings in New York, especially high-rise, have always been standing as solid bars or slabs, isolating an elegant artificial environment from the outside. Sandwich Garden attempts to break this paradigm to bring the vitality of nature back to buildings. A spiral plane is adopted to sandwich green void into slabs, which maximizes the exposure to natural air and light. While rolling up the exterior space with chambers, we create layers of planar planting space with natural affinity stacked vertically. The cavity spires up with flower corridors, farming decks and vines twined cores, bringing wildness to offices in the air.
Also, according to stack effect, the cavity through the entire height of building can help to draw out the hot air exhausted by buildings. The rolled strip would not only cool itself with natural ventilation, but contribute to mitigating urban heat island effect and restoring the physical environment of surrounding blocks.
Sandwich Garden explores a new model of high-rise with Natural affinity. The redistribution of solid and void in a skyscraper is a manifesto to re-establish the relationship between human and nature in an artificial environment:
Here and there, elegance and wildness. Human and nature are interacting, mingling, living in symbiosis.
#Musealization of nature #Climate Restoration #Stack Effect #Terraces&Gardens #Vertical forests
