Images
from RAFAA
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| View to Contonduba Island |
The Olympic Games,
it’s not your
run of the
mill assignment, and
that’s why the Zurich-based architectural
and design firm
RAFAA envisioned something
quite unusual and
fascinating for the
upcoming Olympic Games
in Rio De
Janeiro. The aim
is to make Rio’s
Olympic Games the
first zero-carbon games.
RAFAA
proposed the competition entry ‘Solar City Tower’. The considered project will
be situated on the Contonduba Island, Which is located in the Bay of Rio de
Janeiro. The designers stressed that it’s less about an iconic architectural
form, and rather focuses on the challenges that await the post-oil-era.
This building
will provide energy
to Rio and
its citizens using
natural resources. It
will consist of
a solar power
plant that will
produce energy by
day, and the
excess energy will
be used to
pump seawater to
the tower. The
water will be
released again during
the night, and
with the help
of turbines will
generate electricity to
light the city.
A pattern
emerges as one
notices that all
the previous Olympic
Games strove to
be ‘greener’ than
the one before.
Examples in which
sustainable building techniques
made an appearance
in the Olympics
include: the base
of the Aquatics Centre in
the London Olympics
of 2012, which
used a concrete base made
up of more
than 30% recyclable
materials; and the
building certification program
for all the
structures built for
the 2008 Beijing
Olympics maintained an
ecological balance.
However, the
Solar City Tower
is still just
a proposal, and
it is unclear
whether the project
will actually go
ahead.
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| View from Contonduba Island |
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