Kengo Kuma designs plant-covered building for Silicon Valley

Kengo Kuma Designs Plant-Covered Building in Silicon Valley, CA

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Park Habitat , a sustainable building, full of nature and located in Silicon Valley, California, is the new project by architect Kengo Kuma. The 20-story building will have a glass and wood facade covered in vines and flower boxes.

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"Strong relationships with nature are essential to our quality of life," said the architect. "Park Habitat breathes with a huge vertical courtyard called a green lung."

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“The green lung brings deep light to each floor and surprises like a vertical garden, permeating the building’s atmospheres,” he added.

Setbacks housing tree-filled garden spaces will be carved into the facade to open the building’s exterior to the atrium and reveal structural concrete beams.

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Concrete beams will lift the building at its base , creating what the architect describes as a "covered porch" for the city.

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Park Habitat will house retail and office space, as well as a museum, and will act as an “expansion space” for the adjacent Tech Interactive – a science and technology hub offering educational programming. The building is part of the city's Net Zero Campus , a city initiative that seeks to create a sustainable community that moves companies and their teams out of suburban industrial parks and reconnects them with the urban environment.

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