growed architecture /

third year (University of Montréal)

period: one semester

designed with Andréa Benoist

supervisor: Son Nguyen

project site : Montréal, Canada

      Urban agriculuture is an actual and interesting topic. Using inflatable architecture allows a reflexion about inovation  and agriculture's future. This project takes place in Montreal and gathers differents programs: production (greenhouses), transformation, storage, retail and composting. The development of this project follows a parametric  approach thanks to the software GrassHopper.

       A lighting analysis leads us to the choice of a building thought like a topography.  The height of the buildings varies to permit the best light in greenhouses and public space. The main idea is to bring people to the heart of the project: the public place. The form of the infaltable parts, or of the floors follows the idea of centrality.

      Landscape is an important part of this project: urban gardening, roof gardens,... Greenhouses are ventilated thanks to a system of bioclimatic windows with wax pistons. This project was a good way to adopt a critical point of view on the use of parametric in architecture.