PROJECTS > DREAM HOUSE, MOSCOW
 


Winner of the International Design Competition which involved:

Creation of a masterplan, architectural and landscape design concept for a world-class visitor destination for the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The brief called for a Botanical Garden seed bank, visitor attractions and back-of house facilities sufficient to accommodate up to 45,000 visitors per day.

The team’s response challenged the idea of creating a conventional botanical collection. Working with Buro Happold, The Eden Project and The National History Museum, our response proposed a paleobotanic timeline, creating authentic interpretations of ecosystems that existed on this precise site in past epochs.

 

 This 22 hectare structure encloses seven controlled environments, each of which presents a glimpse of the ecosystems that occurred here, culminating in the garden of choices – an exploration of the options available to produce genuinely sustainable development in the future.

The scheme will be a carbon-neutral exemplar project, harvesting stone, gravels, rainwater and sun power to sustain the development and operation of the facility. It is planned to open in the latter part of 2009