PROJECT GREENWORLD
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THE RESTAURANT
The existing Candle house building had a restaurant on the ground floor and a rooftop terrace which wasn’t really designed for public use. I decided to redesign these areas also to better suit the apartments design aesthetic.
The restaurant has been given living walls and even a green moss ceiling to hide the exposed concrete and metal support beams. Low hanging lights and dark wood furniture has been chosen to give the place a very warm and rustic vibe, and the bar now stretches almost the entire length of the eatery. The small patch of grass located just outside the restaurants entrance has also been utilised and offers an outdoor seating area for customers on warmer days, providing wooden benches and a welcoming view of the canal.
The roof top has been redesigned into a more usable space. All the brick walls have now been covered in living walls and the area has been split into two sections, a rooftop bar with wooden seating areas to overlook the city and an allotment located on the other side to allow and encourage residents to grow their own crops and plants. When the bar is closed the space can be opened up to provide room for leisure activities such as yoga or be used as a play area for young children.
Project Greenworld
Project Greenworld One of the biggest issues in the UK today is the amount of air pollution in most major towns and cities.
One way in which we can help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the air is by introducing more vegetation and greenery into buildings.
Few buildings exist with this type of design in mind and even fewer are located in the UK.
One of the worst affect spots for air pollution within the UK is in Leeds city centre, therefore this was an ideal location to install a scheme such as this into the already existing buildings.
The Candle House tower in Leeds was chosen as my base building for this project due to its interesting and unique shape but also because of its strategic position located near to Leeds central train station.
The rooms had been redesigned to institute living walls made of real plants which would be fed using filtered wasted water from the kitchen sink and bathroom utilities.
The apartments have also been refitted with eco-friendly furniture and finishes such as woven tiger-bamboo flooring panels.
The building should be seen, not only as a solution to the current air pollution levels, but serve as an example of what the future of building architecture could look like by encouraging neighbouring buildings to introduce similar installations onto there facades.
THE ROOFTOP
