VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre / Perkins+Will

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Perkins+Will‘s VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre in Vancouver, BC is designed to meet the Living Building Challenge, the most rigorous set of requirements of sustainability. Formally and functionally, it encompasses the goals of environmentally and socially conscious design. The building is an undulating landscape of interior and exterior spaces rising from ground to roof level and providing a vast surface area on which vegetation could grow, thus reoccupying the land on which the building sits with the landscape. The building also features numerous passive and active systems that reuse the site’s renewable resources and the building’s own waste.

More photos after the break, including a video about the project!

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Cite: Irina Vinnitskaya. "VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre / Perkins+Will" 20 Mar 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/215855/vandusen-botanical-garden-visitor-centre-perkinswill> ISSN 0719-8884

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