Harvest Green Project-02 / Romses Architects
Romses Architects has designed “Harvest Green Project-02′ as a part of Vancouver ‘The 2030 Challenge’. Harvest Green Project is rooted in a concept that challenges the status quo of how energy and food is produced, delivered and sustained in our city, neighbourhoods, and individual single-family homes.
Taking cues from the citys eco-density charter, and in particular, it’s new laneway housing initiatives, the Harvest Green Project proposes to overlay a new ‘green energy and food web’ across the numerous residential neighborhoods and laneways within the city as these communities address future increased densification. The city’s laneways will be transformed into green energy and food conduits, or ‘green streets’, where energy and food is ‘harvested’ via proposed micro laneway live-work homes.
Seen at designboom. More images after the break.
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….I would have add some more solar panels
add more solar panels…..? what? did you do some calculations, and based on your analysis, you can prove that more panels would be effective? being green to be seen is the wrong way forward.
anyway, interesting scheme!
i find this kinda projects tricky in a sense they assume people will replace their beautiful flowers for food – like potatoes, tomatoes, spinach, wheat – wanna ask why people like gardening, wanna a pretty, green, well maintained backyard? r they willing to do laboring agriculture, planting their own food while can buy them cheaply in the supermarkets nearby? if they dont want, what’s the point?
I wouldn’t like to live in this factory like set of containers.
These are just pictures… I wouldn’t even call them nice or pleasing… there is nothing here to provide info on the building or architecture… just a Romses Architects fantasy land…
wow…sad
Once again Romses Architects give us I nice example of fashionnably-green bullshit. Sorry for the strong language, but I agree with Bo Lucky, We need to know more about the basics, and see less “photoshop-green” and ostensible solar panels…
Having said that it is more promising than there last proposal (see previous post). Sustainable architecture is not about solar panels or wind mills, it is about creating a living environment, on every scale, that allows use to live better. I think the scale of the houses is interesting, the density is higher than most equivalent communities. I also like the variety of shapes and sizes allowing a mixture of population and future extensions/modifications (needed to maintain/increase the density in future).
The idea of mixing living and working space would do with a bit more explaining, but if it reduces our needs in terms of transport it is potentially excellent (but then why the Smarts in the perspectives ???.
Thank you Fredrick…a perfect example of green-washing going on in these renderings. I am seeing a greater number of Architects use living material in a reckless manner. FYI, green walls seldom live and really have no utility. Other than that, I like the density of this development, and if you stripped all the turbines and solar panels off, the built form actually might come through.
we have to dream. not only in form, or technique, but in new schemes of live.
I think it’s very interesting the possibility of urban planting. would be very interesting in the context in which I live, where people have starving and no work.
it’s a good project, with great images.
This is NOT going to happen…this project will cost way tooooo much $$$$…It’s not even attractive!
I think they forgot to add bioswales, geothermal energy, composting toilets….THEN it would be more realistic.
I like this project because it’s comprehensive study on how coach houses replacing garages can tranform entire neighbourhoods in Vancouver, where residential alleys are a legacy of the horse and buggy days, towards planning less subservient to the automobile and more conducive to a dense urban fabric where citizens can work closer to home.
So apart from the gratuitous windmill and green wall, this scheme is a strong statement towards sustainability that needs not be explained through rhetorical graphs and data calculations.
Is hard to be a good architect. Thinking is a hard thing, this times.
The project reminds me of a Scandinavian or a German suburb of the mid or late 70s.
Great, what software did they use to this modeling? anyone knows?
@Ceno
SketchUp and Photoshop.