When architecture meets nature, projects such as the Beer Hops Farm Brewerymarket can be born, a building completely inspired by the shapes and beauty of hops plants, conceived with the aim of providing a new space in which to exchange goods and services. It is a biomimicry project by the designers Lorene Faure and Kinugasa-Tsui which received the 3rd prize at the Farmers Market Design Competition.
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When architecture meets nature, projects such as the Beer Hops Farm Brewerymarket can be born, a building completely inspired by the shapes and beauty of hop plants, conceived with the aim of providing a new space in which to exchange goods and services. It is a project of biomimesi by the designers Lorene Faure and Kinugasa-Tsui who received the 3rd prize at the Farmers Market Design Competition.
It was designed to fit into the historic West Highlands neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, of which it wants to strengthen the local identity by hosting the best annual program of events dedicated toagriculture of hop plants and beer production, but also art and music, to which an entire space is dedicated on the lower floor.
In this project, the hops, which in the beer production process it takes on the very important role of giving it its characteristic bitter taste and helping in the coagulation of suspended proteins to make it clearer, it is everywhere. And not only in the inspiration, since the idea is of really cultivate it both inside the building and on the external façade on poles. Through the latter, natural light will filter, which will create suggestive games inside.
Other details of the project also come from nature. The transparent canopy roof, with its original convex and folded shapes, designed to maximize heat exchange, performs the function of a capacitor and allows you to recover rainwater for other uses, such as the irrigation of hops, making it slide towards canals, through a sort of funnel.
The elegant geometries and architectural forms of the Brewerymarket will allow visitors to have an intimate experience of "exploration and surprise", explain the two designers, giving the sensation of virtually entering a hop plant.
In short, the future of design, architecture and planning also passes from inspiration to nature, which offers us a myriad of solutions, perfected in over 3 billion years of evolution. It is thanks to the biological and biomechanical processes of nature that it is possible to improve human activities. Even those, increasingly successful, of the short chain of farmers markets.
Roberta Ragni
Roberta Ragni
