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Gallery: MAD Architecture Goes Green

A glimpse at a naturalistic, eco-friendly Taiwanese convention center covered by breathable, pleated solar skin.

Posted 9.25.09 at 5:23 pm 5 Comments

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Holy Cratered Convention Center

MAD Ltd.

A top-down view intends to evoke a naturalistic landscape filled with mountains and craters. The contours of the building also represent a nod to the preexisting lay of the land.

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Read the article: MAD Architects Use Solar Eco-Skin on Taiwanese Convention Center

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greenmachine

09/25/09 at 8:58 pm

Love it!!!

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quasi44

10/07/09 at 2:36 am

elegant use of material with what appears about 98% coverage. nice application of substrate tech. wonder how it will do in the rains and typhoons.

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mwa3c

10/23/09 at 7:39 pm

I am American, living in a city. I would TOTALLY dig living in a place like this!!! Why the heck can't we build this instead of the ugly brick faced, concreted in walls we build here?!?!?!?!

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mwa3c

10/23/09 at 7:42 pm

kinda reminds me of the inside of a cruiz ship :-) but i realllllllllllly like this design!

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jdog

11/11/10 at 6:13 pm

I think I see Logan 5 in the fore front of the first picture. Is image 5 where they observe Carousel?

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