July 31, 2025
We imagine a VICTORIAS NEW GOVERNMENT CENTER that fosters an awareness on how our buildings and bodies interact with their surroundings.
Our proposal for the VICTORIAS NEW GOVERNMENT CENTER foregrounds biospheric designso that the architecture can go beyond sustainability management and serve as ademonstration of the city’s ambitious Climate Action Plan. We envision VICTORIAS NEW GOVERNMENT CENTER that joins net-zero construction with nature-based designs solutionto create public spaces that demonstrate how our buildings are not mere containers butalso metabolic machines that process water, waste, energy, and air.
VICTORIAS registers an average of 234 days a year with rainfall. The city’s tropical monsoon climate climate reveals the extreme symptoms of our current environmental regime. During periods of highest heat, precipitation has been dropping while the greater frequency of thunderstorms has raised the risk of climatic variation from flooding and drought.
We have used data related to humidity and temperature to design the VICTORIAS NEW GOVERNMENT CENTER so that the building that actively interacts with its users and its environment. We have designed a building with heat dissipating chimney that passively cools the interior using natural ventilation and thermal mass differentials between the water, ground and air.
We have designed rain catchment umbrellas that harvest water, storing it for future use in underground cisterns and flood retention ponds. We have placed the VICTORIAS NEW GOVERNMENT CENTER within a landscape of pleasure gardens, and event spaces designed to manage rainwater and provide a matt of cool air for the building. The roof the VICTORIAS NEW GOVERNMENT CENTER works as a solar farm undulating like a series of palms to offer shade for the building users. The façade screen out the heat with a filigree structure of colorful pipes that support climbing plants.
In short we have customized the walls, floors, and ceiling assemblies to reduce the heat island effect and ensure that the VICTORIAS NEW GOVERNMENT CENTER becomes a hallmark of progressive green public building design in the world.
Our proposal for the VICTORIAS NEW GOVERNMENT CENTER doubles as creative hub with spaces for exhibition, performance and discussion providing platforms for community engagement with the process of managing the city. We envision a building whose architecture can open to support events to spur municipal growth and community awareness. Our design offers indoor venues such as the food d=foods center with a botanical courtyard giving the city a flexible and transformable floor plan with lots of resources for people to connect with one another. We believe that VICTORIAS NEW GOVERNMENT CENTER can engage physical experience as a life-changing event and present architecture as a means of mediating between community and culture.
