The Magic Mountain. Ecosystem Mask for Ames Thermal Power Station

ARCHITECTS: cero9 (Cristina Díaz Moreno + Efrén García Grinda)
PROJECT: The Magic Mountain. Ecosystem Mask for Ames Thermal Power Station
LOCATION: Ames, Iowa (USA)
COLABORATORS: Dries van de Velde, Íñigo González-Haba, Miguel Paredes

In the city of Ames, placed in the centre of Iowa, an extremely big power station is running at full power. We proposed to transform it into a piece of landscape inside the city, totally covered with a membrane of roses, lights and honeysuckle shrouding and unifying them with a silhouette and a single common material. The species chosen for the construction of this vegetation crust are many species of roses adapted to the harsh continental climate of Iowa developed by Griffith J. Buck (who was born and lived in Ames). For the covering of the outer shell of the power plant we propose to use the growth of the living matter as a base in a grid of recycled polypropylene pallets. Like a real mountain, the membrane tries to attract the most important butterfly species, right on the southward migratory route on the American continent. And will provide a resting place for migrating birds and turn into an artificial alternative to the disappeared forests and wetlands. The assembly of the existing power station and its new image produce an ecosystem that is subject to human interaction. Architecture and energy infrastructure converted into living systems using bioengineering techniques: a magic mountain.
A natural monument that is generated artificially.

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