#WETHEPLANET CAMPUS, 3DELUXE
A FLOATING BIOTOPE OFF MANHATTAN What will our cities look like in a post-COVID-19 era? 3deluxe was commissioned by New York-based organisation #WeThePlanet (WTP) to create an inspirational structure that nurtures and investigates new opportunities for people-friendly architecture in harmony with nature. Here, FC&A explores the German firm’s forward-thinking campus that projects a future where people and nature can live harmoniously alongside one another. 3DELUXE
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he WTP campus serves as a communicative platform to protect all life on land and under the sea while advancing the frontiers of design. The campus offers facilities for convening international summits, workshops and educational programmes that focus on transforming our world for a better future and will address topics such as human longevity and planetary flourishing, climate change, social justice and equal opportunities. The floating building complex is aimed at serving as an inspiring example for future life, communicative living and working environments.
What is the idea behind 50/50? The 50/50 concept developed by 3deluxe foresees an architecture for the future that centres on shared spaces for both people and nature. The basic idea behind this architectural concept is that in the future, all building projects should give back just as much substance to nature as they take from it. This would mean that as compensation for soil sealing, CO2 production and the use of energy and materials, new living environments would be created for flora and fauna (neophytes). Used consistently, this would completely change our requirements for the cityscape of the future. Innovative architectural structures could come into being, of the kind that has 50% nature-oriented biotopes integrated into them. The quality of life in the cities would be significantly improved in every respect with better air quality, a more pleasant inner-city climate which would heat up less and the fact that it would quickly be possible to enjoy the experience of something unfamiliar in such environments – nature. FC&A – JANUARY – 2021
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