My studio project this year is to make a Center for Sustainable Development, which will consist of an Eco Hostel, offices and exhibition space for Comhar- Sustainable Development Council, and a Travel Information with Café.
The building I have chosen to use for this is the Findlater House in O`Connell Street- Dublin. The Building is prefect because of its location and size.
The main aim for this project is for it to be as sustainable as possible, with designing smart, eco friendly solutions.
To develop the design further I have chosen to use the Hanging Garden of Babylon as my concept, as I visualize this building to be an ''inside garden''.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
According to accounts, the garden was built by King Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled the city of Babylon for 43 years starting in 605 BC.
The gardens were built to cheer up Nebuchadnezzar's homesick wife, Amyitis. The land she came from, though, was green, rugged and mountainous, and she found the flat, sun-baked terrain of Mesopotamia depressing. The king decided to relieve her depression by recreating her homeland through the building of an artificial mountain with rooftop gardens.
What is really interesting is that King Nebuchadnezzar also used structural elements to provide height. It is said that the irrigation system would had to move water from the Euphrates River to fill a pool at the top of the structure. When the pool was full, the gates would open and gravity would do its job, bringing water down to all of the garden terraces.
This irrigation system is much like the technique used in vertical gardens today.
What is really interesting is that King Nebuchadnezzar also used structural elements to provide height. It is said that the irrigation system would had to move water from the Euphrates River to fill a pool at the top of the structure. When the pool was full, the gates would open and gravity would do its job, bringing water down to all of the garden terraces.
This irrigation system is much like the technique used in vertical gardens today.
