ESTRAN

Our architectural project affirms the ambition of the Basque Community: to reconcile the dimension of the impact of the ocean on our current civilization and its future, with the natural intelligence of living beings that 'he houses. All for the benefit of a new generation of hybrid and regenerative buildings, so that it is now the city that adapts to the great cycles of nature and no longer the opposite. "
Our building will be regenerative, biomimetic, liquid. It will be a landscape and an ecosystem!

It is by working with world experts in marine biology and climatology, but also with specialists in parametric design, we thought a project at the crossroads of architecture and scientific research ...

The foreshore as a concept for composing an "active landscape" : just as ascidians filter seawater, our project, filters water from the land. 
The foreshore (def.) Tidal zone, or intertidal zone, or tidal flat, is the part of the coastline situated between the extreme limits of the highest and the lowest tides. It constitutes a specific biotope, which can shelter many natural sub-habitats.

On our building, the fifth facade, becomes a real landscape, at the same time, walk, belvedere, garden and basin. The roof is designed as a living filter, littered with phyto-purification ponds. It harvests rains and greywater, purifies and redistributes them. Its aquatic and vegetated surface also helps to melt the building in its natural landscape, reflecting the sky and the flora. The building evolves thus cyclically, matching the rhythms of the biodiversity that surrounds and covers it.

He becomes the metronome of the climate and the seasons. Parametric strategies have been developed for the optimization of thermal and visual comfort. The aquatic roof also becomes a catalyst for the ecological functions and the energy efficiency of the building.