Narrative:
The Vancouver Convention Centre West project required a collaborative process to create and integrate the building on an active urban waterfront. The new convention center needed to respond in a way that respected the marine habitat, engaged the human habitat, and embraced the living roof.
The design team included a design architect, two prime architects, and 40 sub-consultants. Design took place over a period of three years, involving several major urban design guideline presentations, presentations to the design review board, open house presentations to citizens, stakeholder presentations, and more than 45 major, multi-day workshop sessions with design consultants.
Two important areas of collaboration were tied to reaching the sustainable goals of this project. First, to assist the design team, a sustainability advisory committee formed, consisting of three notable green specialists and developers. The mission was to assist the client and the design team in establishing sustainability goals and to challenge the design team to explore all possibilities.
The second important collaboration formed around the design of the six-acre living roof, in which the landscape consultant joined forces with a notable environmental biologist specializing in living roofs, creating a functioning landscape habitat with natural drainage and seed migration patterns.
Collective & FeedBack Loops
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