Not only does the green rooftop canopy visually connect the building to the park landscape but it also provides significant gains in heating and cooling efficiency.
Renzo piano green roof san francisco.
Designed by renzo piano building workshop rpbw along with a slew of other professionals a single building beneath the new 2 5 acre living roof measures 410 000 sf and houses the academy components that once stretched across 12 structures.
It is on display at the autodesk design museum in san francisco.
This was meant to be an abstract representation of the green roof.
The goal as he described it was to lift up a piece of the park and put a building under to blend seamlessly into golden gate s natural setting.
Architect renzo piano s vision for the academy is perhaps most perfectly expressed by the living roof.
Through the evocative spaces of the museum of natural history the large green roof that breathes and the successful coexistence of outreach activities and research the new headquarters of the.
Architect renzo piano achieved innovative imaginative energy savings in his design for the living roof.