Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Earth walls dissolve building into landscape using rammedearth
The design of Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre is a specific and sustainable response to the building’s unique context-the unusual Canadian desert found in the South Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. Sited adjacent to a remnant of the Great Basin Desert, of which 1,600 acres are being preserved by the Osoyoos band as a conservation area, this interpretative centre is part of a larger 200-acre master plan. (more…)
Tags: beetle kill pine, Cast-in-place concrete, Cobalt Engineering, Combined Mechanical Contractors Limited, Desert Cultural Centre, displacement ventilation, dual flush toilets, Equilibrium Consulting Inc., Forbo, green roof, Greyback Construction, Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden Architects + Urbanists, low E coating Soprema roof membrane, low-flow faucets, Marmoleum flooring, MCL Engineering, Osoyoos band, Osoyoos Indian Band, Penticton, Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg, potable water consumption, radiant cooling, rammed earth, regional flavour, solar performance, South Okanagan Valley, waterless urinals
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
A sustainable response integrates culture and landscape
View along the rammed earth entry wall, an attractive and durable construction with excellent thermal qualities. Note the section of Cor-ten steel at the location of the service yard.
by HBBH Design Team
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The design of Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre is a specific and sustainable response to the building’s unique context - the unusual Canadian desert found in the South Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. Sited adjacent to a remnant of the Great Basin Desert, of which 1,600 acres are being preserved by the Osoyoos band as a conservation area, this interpretative centre is part of a larger 200-acre master plan. (more…)
Tags: Air Displacement, black box, Blue Stain pine, Canfor, Cobalt Engineering, displacement ventilation system, dual flush toilets, endangered species, energy savings, Equilibrium Consulting Inc., green roof, Greyback Construction, hot air buoyancy, Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden Architects, indoor pollutants, interpretive center, landscaped roof, LMDG Code Consultants, low-flow faucets, MCL Engineering, mountain pine beetle infestation, natural stack effect, Nic Lehoux, Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre, on-site well, Osoyoos, Osoyoos band, Osoyoos Indian Band, Phillips Farevaag Smollenberg, pit house, quality indoor environment, Radiant Heating and Cooling, rammed earth wall, rattlesnake research facility, South Okanagan Valley, sustainable, temperature stabilization, Terra Firma, trailhead green design, underfloor air distribution system, water conservation, waterless urinals
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