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30MAY 2012

Spaceplates Greenhouse / Anne Romme with N55

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Anne Romme in collaboration with N55 completed the first building utilizing the SPACEPLATES BUILDING SYSTEM, situated at South Academy, City of Bristol College, Bristol, UK.

A greenhouse is a contained quantity of air and light which extends the growing season and enables the thriving of plants otherwise alien to local climate. It creates a bubble of super-nature, where things otherwise impossible becomes possible.

Even though almost completely transparent and thus in direct visual contact with its context, the smell, temperature, humidity and taste of things is significantly different than just outside the thin membrane.

It enables us to create different kinds or quantities of food, but also to experience different climates and atmospheres. The greenhouse creates a significant place in everyday life.

Wedged in on a small piece of land between large parking lots, the SPACEPLATES Greenhouse Bristol functions as a class room and growing space for the horticulture students and their teachers at the South Bristol Skills Academy.

The greenhouse enables them to study and grow plants all year round, and will be used for seeding and growing plants for the outdoor gardens adjacent to the site.

Unlike Bucky Fuller’s well-known and well-tested domes where the number of different parts are kept at a minimum, the SPACEPLATES BUILDING SYSTEM takes advantage of contemporary technology to mimic more complex naturally occurring geometries. Because of an organic growth principle, they often contain a gradient, and thus many geometrically similar but differently sized parts.