Renzo Piano Academy is covered by green hills

To live fun, academics from California decided to give himself something of an unusual architecture. Such a gift does not lie where the hit, and they ordered him - in a good sense of the word. At the cry commented famous architects, five of whom brought with them models of the projects. But for the academics gave the sixth, which came just a drawing on paper.

Lucky architect'm very melodious - Renzo Piano. You know the Italian for his long-standing zatee feed the light transparent skyscraper. In addition to this project, he napridumyval a lot of interesting and unusual things.

And in 2000, the architect knew that the California Academy of Sciences prispichilo get some non-trivial building. Renzo and decided to help the children - to cover the grass and the academy done something nice.



The idea emerged after the Renzo climbed onto the roof of a building academy in Golden Gate Park (Golden Gate Park), in San Francisco. The design was heavily damaged by the earthquake that happened already in 1989. The roof was completely destroyed. When the architect came down to earth, he immediately ripe design the next project.

The concept of the project is - lift the landscape of the park up and leave the building as if to delete down. Yeah, talking about plans contemporary artists sometimes have to say rather strange things ...

To illustrate his idea organizing committee, Renzo tried to explain it well. They say, in order to give the buildings a fresh look, while at the same time to add them to the stability in the event of future earthquakes, with something and you want that cover them - directly on top - with a living roof of grass and hills. Design content затеи - to create something that fits well into the district.

So, "kryshevat decided following structures belonging to the Academy and are next to each other: a planetarium, a large aquarium (there dwells a thousand species of animals around - and not only fish) and the Museum of Natural Science.

In general, to get some custom house, inside of which will wander penguins, fish swim in the coral reefs, as well as amateurs will gallivant poglazet on artificial starry sky.

To all, it was not only beautiful, but also fashionable, Renzo has made its most environmentally friendly project. To highlight "podkryshnogo space" did not require electricity - light penetrates through the transparent glass walls and through the hatches in the ceiling.

Superkryshi Construction began in September 2005. From the very beginning of work on it became clear that the result will be something not quite normal. How to say no, and green architecture - it is usually the same house, except that different bundles of grass growing on the walls or on rooftops. And concrete with steel Nobody cancels ...

The other case - the roof of Golden Gate. It will retain water, which will feed the grass, rather than dissolving chemicals in the soil - designers are given an explanation ... Well, some more pragmatic functions - for example, it will cool the building.

However, the temperature regulation in the building would remain in the norm, and without extravagant grasses. Required levels of humidity and temperature are maintained there through the round windows that open and close automatically depending on the values of named parameters.

All in all, an invention of Mr. Piano is quite organically. Even the construction of frames of the largest window on the roof is inspired by spidery network. Incidentally, these frames are installed solar panels at the same time (which without them ?..), by the application of which is already not very high electricity museum will be reduced by 5-10%.









Sam Piano compares the structural components of plays, but the entire building - with a symphony. Yeah, obviously something in the composition of blood he has, not only arhitektorskoe.

But the secret is not in the building and even more so than in music. And the question: "Where is the source of your inspiration?" - Septuagenarian Renzo Piano thoughtfully replied: "In the subconscious ... in the subconscious ..."