Diligent programming and sensitivity to detail and sustainability have won Apurva Parikh first prize for his design for an agricultural building in this year's Leading Edge Student. Competition for Sustainable Design. Parikh is a master's candidate in the University of Texas at Austin's architecture program.
As the first building for Tulare County's new agricultural campus center in California, the design invokes the region's agricultural machinery, landscape, and climate by allowing the wind, sun, and rain to shape its forms. Hovering, kidney-shaped lecture halls allow wind to filter through the structure, while angled glass panels diffuse sunlight into the classroom and exterior corridors.
"the building is essentially porous to the wind and sun," says Parikh. "The elements penetrate deeply into the structure, reducing the building's dependence on air-conditioning artificial lighting." the building's membrane also the facilitates the production of heat and cooling through active mechanical systems imbedded into the structure, demonstrating that sophisticated planning can produce lasting efficiency. Cristina V. Rogers
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