CO2 O2 A digging shovel A circular moat is dug 400 cubic meters / 1750 wheelbarrows of soil Formwork for rammed earth is set up Earth is poured in and rammed, raising the exterior walls A tree is planted A growing tree A woodland Trees absorb carbon A rainy cloud Cut trees A tree is cut Logs Wood boards and beams create interior structures The sun Solar water heating Rain water is collected in a downward spiral Water is stored for later use Filtered drinking water “a significant piece of cutting edge design with aesthetic and cultural power, it will help win the moral, environmental and cultural argument against destroying communities to make way for high carbon infrastructure. Its symbolic power will help us defeat the runway plans before BAA bulldozers are even on the horizon” _ This is how Greenpeace describes an ideal winning design of the Heathrow Contest. It must put its emphasis not on preparing for a fight, but rather on winning an argument. More important than to physically fortify the Airplot, as the contest’s title suggests, is to symbolically empower it. Therefore our design focuses on creating a strong, appealing object, a clear example of Greenpeace’s effort against the Heathrow airport expansion. Two natural elements are used to build this tower (earth and trees) and two others sustain its functioning (water and sun), always aiming at a minimum non-natural external intervention. Thus the tower is an ecosystem in balance with the surrounding nature, its elements intertwined and supporting. LESS HEATHROW RUNWAYS Plants watering Lighting Broadcasting Food cooking Hot water Electric power Photovoltaic electricity generation 1

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Competition for Greenpeace Airplot in Heathrow. Authors: Francisco Costa, Miguel Torres, Sérgio Nunes.

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CO2 O2

A digging shovel

A circular moat is dug

400 cubic meters / 1750

wheelbarrows of soil

Formwork for rammed earth

is set up

Earth is poured in and rammed,

raising the exterior walls

A tree is planted

A growing tree

A woodlandTrees absorb carbon

A rainy cloud

Cut trees

A tree is

cut

Logs Wood boards an

d beams cr

eate

interior st

ructures

The sun

Solar wate

r heating

Rain water is collected in a

downward spiral Water is stored for later use

Filtered drinking water

“a significant piece of cutting edge design with aesthetic and cultural power, it will help win the moral, environmental and

cultural argument against destroying communities to make way for high carbon infrastructure. Its symbolic power will help us

defeat the runway plans before BAA bulldozers are even on the horizon”

This is how Greenpeace describes an ideal winning design of the Heathrow Contest. It must put its emphasis not on preparing for a fight, but rather on winning an argument. More important than to physically fortify the Airplot, as the contest’s title suggests, is to symbolically empower it.Therefore our design focuses on creating a strong, appealing object, a clear example of Greenpeace’s effort against the Heathrow airport expansion.Two natural elements are used to build this tower (earth and trees) and two others sustain its functioning (water and sun), always aiming at a minimum non-natural external intervention. Thus the tower is an ecosystem in

balance with the surrounding nature, its elements intertwined and supporting.

LESS HEATHROW RUNWAYS

Plants watering

Lighting

Broadcasting

Food cooking

Hot water

Electric

power

Photovoltaic electricity

generation