Veg.itecture: VIVA Conceptual 3

Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA) continues with some amazing examples (and not to mince word, there are shitloads of them on the web). Perhaps a trend, perhaps overexposed, or perhaps we've finally reached the point where we've transcended the original and just become purveyors of the mundane. A quick snippet of the amount of blog posts showing vegetation on buildings is a good indication of the ho-hum attitude we take towards this still fascinating phenomenon. It perhaps is a bit more fascinating due to it's ubiquitiousness.

So onward, with wild abandon. To start, a building with origins in fantasy, the 'house in never never land', andrés jaque architects offers honest-to-goodness physical models of building. Check out this > 30% preview comes via Designboom.




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WAN features the Nya Årstafältet masterplan, 'Arkipelag' in Stockholm, Sweden - with a variety of green roofs - designed by archi5.




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Inhabitat features a trio of green roofed skyscrapers in Taiwan, by NBBJ Architects.


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Some Sim-City looking imagery from the roof gardens on plans for Project Green, in Austin, Texas.




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Another land-based green roof is for the Asian Culture Complex by architect Kyu Sung Woo is located in Gwangju, South Korea. (via Designboom)




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a-lab designed the Statoil Hydro office in Oslo, Norway with some rooftop greenery.


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And a literal vegetated 'tree hotel' by Tham + Videgard Hansson Arkitekter in Harads, Sweden.




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Nothing like 'green carpet' to elucidate the 'green carpet house' by hiroshi nakamura and NAP architects. A tilted up panel of vegetation extends site to roof.






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A very popular entry in the pantheon, the “Shenzhen 4 Tower in 1” Master Plan by Steven Holl has made the rounds lately - due to it's incorporation of many veg.itectural concepts. You name it, it's in there - Vertical Gardens, Roof Gardens, Stormwater and Greywater Collection... as well as a Public Park (via SpaceInvading).




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Veg.itect jean nouvel has designed the 'C1' building which offers a rooftop greenhouse (via Designboom)






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Morphosis ends with a vegetated rooftop (via Inhabitat) for a building in China for the 'Giant Campus' which is at least some vibrant subtlety (albeit blase renderings) amongst some of the craziness.




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