Eco Factor: Sustainable house design with solar canopy to power a series of desalination fields
American firm Zellnerplus’ ingenious and futuristic thinking showed it the way to bagging the second spot at the Fort Tilden Field House Competition. The concept proposal for the Fort Tilden Field House located on a former military site in New York is an exploration of the unformulated edge between landscape urbanism and ecological conservation. The idea is to power a series of desalination fields using a huge solar field.
Installed on nearly 225,000 square foot canopy, the solar field will produce enough energy to be used for extracting salt through desalination process. The salt gathered by the process would be stored on the site in the form of a series of pyramidal land forms. This 8-foot tall flying carpet like structure houses a gymnasium, private viewing boxes for the stadium, a sports bar, a restaurant and a café.
In addition the Solar Field House supporting solar canopy will include meeting rooms, locker rooms, an observation deck, a sports lounge. The two 20,000 square foot legs that hold up the entire mat-structure wrap the tennis and basketball courts in them. Just above the courts reside the seating from where games can be enjoyed.
Via: Designboom
