Seedarium - mid-term submission

Yesterday I had the last mid-term of my life!! So exciting! A month more and I can go back to having a human life!

Here are some slides of my mid-term presentation for my masters thesis, Seedarium, which is a seed bank located in the Grand Canyon. It is one of the seed banks proposed for a network I developed, a network conserving biodiversity of the planet.

There is hardly any text on slides, but I hope they are self explanatory :D

Seedarium - Concept sketches

More concept sketches I did for my master's project, the Seed Bank.

I recently got a new Moleskine, Japanese book (I'm so excited about it, that I'm telling everyone!) and I started experimenting with longer sketches. Here's a scan of part of it.

Concept for circulation - how to isolate & contain tourists from scientists, who work on really precious little seeds?! (I glued my old sketch there too.. more experiments with collages) 

More circulation - other side of the glued paper - tourists come out of the work spaces and appear straight in a greenhouse.

Types of possible touristic circulation - bridges, catwalks, tubes, glazed walkways on the roof...

Another strip of my sketchbook.

A new concept (Tadaaaaaaa!) - Elevated greenhouses or elevated offices in greenhouses.

Exploring possibilities with suspended offices and lab spaces: view to the Grand canyon from one side and a rain forest from the other. Tourists walking in the middle or closer to offices; they have a chance to observe scientists or botanists, plants in earth or plants in aquaponic system.

Reversing the idea - what if the greenhouses are suspended?! + opportunity of looking over the area between building volumes. A lot of association with ant nests and canyon layers... Plants are making the impression of oasis in desert.

And finally - the sketch I made a little earlier, seed storage underground. I was inspired by ancient Roman catacombs deep underground, with light wells... and more ant nests. 

SEEDARIUM

I finally reached the last semester of my studies! hu hu hu
As for the Master's project, I decided to design a prototype of a seed bank. You can find information about it here:

And here are some sketches I made for the concept.

Program organization - courtyard system, greenhouses connected by touristic paths

Offices exposed to touristic paths to increase public awareness and curiosity

Underground seed storages

CWARCH

Today I was checking the web-site of Chicago Women in Architecture scholarship page and I found my sketch on the top! pretty surprising but made me happy haha