DESERT ENVIRONMENTS
OFFICE: Roth Architecture
LOCATION: Saudi Arabia
ROTH R&D PROJECT TEAM: Elizabeth Cohn-Martin, Estefania Mejia, Doria Reyes
ROTH ARCHITECTURE PROJECT TEAM: Irene del Valle de la Sen, Andrea Suardi, Andrea Calvet, Ana Izquierdo, Federico Gonzalez, Israel Rubio, Tonantzin Alverde, Angelica Pasten, Edisson Alzate, Laura Ospina, Abigail Perez, Eduardo Pacheco, Valeria Prydnikova, Eduardo Ruiz, Manuel Sandoval, Ignacio Cantillana, Leonardo Reyna, Jorge Tellez, Eric Rivera, Nelson Rayon, Alejandro Mena, Vianney de Roa, Tonatzin Bonfil, David Penaloza
IMAGE CREDITS: Roth Architecture, LLC
building performance & site sustainability
The four proposals shown here vary in site, scale, and intention but they all share one common challenge—needing to perform within a context of intensive heat and dry desert conditions. Each of the four proposals consists of a contextual design idea, material approach and the integration of key sustainable design principals that support the buildings to be offgrid and as self-sustaining as possible.
The diagrams below condense research and key themes related to aspects of both performance and potential material innovation.
The Roth Architecture Sustainable Design team addressed:
Climate and context, site and infrastructure, construction means and methods, energy management, water management, waste and recycling, circular materials, healthy design and IEQ, biodiversity and landscape, transportation, and resiliency.
A high level performance proposal resulted for all four sites and design options after evaluating potential challenges and opportunities.