Reykjavik Botanical Garden by Andrew Corrigan and John Carr

Their work is certainly interesting...

They propose: "tapping that city's geothermal energy to create "microclimates for varied plant growth."


"Heat is taken directly from the ground," they write, "and piped up across the landscape into a system of [pipes and] towers."


"Zones of heat radiate out from the pipes, creating a new climate layer with variable conditions based on their number and proximity to each other. These exterior plantings are mostly native to Iceland, but the amplified environment allows a wider range of growth than would normally be possible, informing the role and opportunity of this particular botanical garden. Visitors experience growth never before possible in Iceland, and travel through new climates throughout the site."


"The climate of the city is altered, in other words, literally from the ground up; using the functional equivalent of terrestrially powered ovens, otherwise botanically impossible species can healthily take root."

"This domestication of geothermal energy, and the use of it for purposes other than electricity-generation, raises the fascinating possibility that heat itself, if carefully and specifically redirected, can utterly transform urban space." 

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