Eco Factor: Botanic garden designed to maximize passive solar heat gain/loss.
C.F. Moller Architects earlier designed a hothouse for Aarhus University, which the architecture firm is now planning to restore by converting it into a new botanical knowledge center. The complex will also be extended with a new, 18m high tropical hothouse, in which the public will be able to explore among the treetops.
The new botanic garden will be designed in an organic form, which is based on energy-saving design solutions and on knowledge of materials, indoor climate and technology. The dome shape of the botanic garden will allow it to have the smallest possible surface area while offering the largest volume. Moreover, the design will ensure the best possible sunlight incidence in winter and the least possible during the hot summer months.
