PARSONS AAS INTERIOR DESIGN - The New School

GREENHOUSE
Greenhouse is a nightclub; lounge
and event space built from recycled
or recyclable materials, Greenhouse
is the first nightclub in the nation to
receive certification via LEED_CI by
the United States Green Buildings
Council for its environmentally conscious
construction and design.
I decided to stay away from recreating
a greenhouse, and opted to
transpose the notion of landscape
to an interior space. The design
concept was to convey the dynamic
richness of nature as a living
system. The walls connect to the
ceiling via a series of laser-cut ribs
creating a shelter within the space.
The ribs are lined with a series of
6” round panels organized in a selfsimilar
and recursive pattern generated
through a fractal algorithm.
The bar is a scale model of a gently
sloping landscape punctured with
miniature trees and scale models of
house I designed in the past. The
model is seemingly a straight cut
through the crust of the earth.
The main challenges in a LEED_CI
certification process for commercial
interiors is retrofitting existing
systems to meet strict efficiency
requirements. I set out to achieve
the same aesthetic freedom and
quality while making the intervention
ecologically acceptable.
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