‘Vertebrate Evolution’ Leith project
Leith is a fishing village that became an industrial centre that today is considered a large post-industrial area, and which the city of Edinburgh is willing to recover. The lack of human scale, disconnection with the horizon and null access to the shore motivated me to develop a project which structures an area of what I consider ‘an invertebrate’.
My proposal also considers mixed-use buildings in which I was able to define the way they produce their energy, their structure and skin configuration. We could see this settlement as two buildings helping each other, joined by a common conservatory in between them. The building facing north lets the sun pass through it in order to heat the conservatory, which has the necessary fenestration to provide thermal comfort all year round. The amount of radiation and interior temperatures have been calculated to make this possible, creating a building that becomes a shelter for humans as well as for the surrounding flora and fauna.
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