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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”
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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.
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Plants watering
Lighting
Broadcasting
Food cooking
Hot water
Electric
power
Photovoltaic electricity
generation
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1st floor
kitchen
storage
ground floor
showers
toilet
entrance
2nd floor
dining room
dining room
3rd floor
dorms dorms
4th floor
dorms
dorms
dorms
5th floor
activism center
terrace
activism center
6th floor
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top floor viewinterior view
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