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Environmental TrussT
2009 | critic: Marc Manack | Cleveland, OH
1st Prize: Gui Competition
Jury: Michael Bongiorno (Design Group), Ryan Palider (University of Illinois at Chicago), Heather Roberge (Herbert Baumer Visiting Professor, Principal at Murmur), Henry Smith Miller (Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects)
As a play on its structure and commitment to the environment, Environmental TRUSSt creates an architecture that is both engaged with the city and the site ecology. In combination with cleansing rainwater runoff through a series of research gardens, this project proposes to uncover, re-route, and filter Doan Brook as it flows through a new, natural wetlands.
Private functions such as environmental and medical research take place within the constraints of the trussed structure that zigzags its way between the edges of the site as it gradually negotiates the existing slope of the site. The public roof surface connects the wetlands at grade to the experimental greenhouses located above.
A central exhibition and educational space seamlessly meanders between public and research zones, both interior and exterior - serving as a direct path between various entrances across the building and site.
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