At 6:00pm on Wednesday, December 14, TECRO and the Johns Hopkins University's Environmental Studies program will bring the architectural mastermind behind the EcoARK project, Arthur Huang, to speak to the public. First, visitors can view the National Geographic Channel special about EcoARK, MEGASTRUCTURES: EcoARK. Afterward, the documentary's executive producer, Stephen Hunter, and the Director of the Office of Sustainability at Johns Hopkins University, Davis Bookhart, will join Mr. Huang to speak on a panel and take questions from the audience.
The event will be held at the Johns Hopkins' Washington, DC Center, located at 1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. The event will be free and open to the public.
The EcoARK Pavilion, Taiwan's greenest building, is built from nearly 1.5 million recycled plastic bottles. The nine-story marvel of modern design was designed and built by architect Arthur Huang for the Taipei International Flora Expo.
The building imitates the honey-comb structure of beehives, making it strong enough to weather sub-tropical typhoons and survive Pacific-Rim earthquakes. The air pockets in the recycled bottles provide natural insulation, and an aerodynamic design captures prevailing winds to provide a no-energy solution to air conditioning. Even more remarkable is that the entire 21,500 square-foot exhibition hall can be disassembled and re-assembled anywhere in the world.
For more information, please contact Thalia Lin at (202) 895-1852 or view the JHU event announcement at:
http://advanced.jhu.edu/academic/environmental/downloads/EcoARK.pdf
