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SHaC has been provided seed funding by the Ministry for the Environment’s Sustainable Management Fund.  Nine teams from tertiary institutes around the country are joining forces with local industry professionals and their communities to design and create a sustainable habitat. 
Wellington’s entry, THE PLANT ROOM, is unique in that it deals with existing building stock - demonstrating how to convert an existing apartment building into a carbon neutral development. 

Regenerative Architecture

Our regenerative habitat “THE PLANT ROOM” is an inner-city project that will generate energy, collect water, recycle waste and grow food whilst addressing urgent housing needs.  It includes a series of linked outdoor “rooms” to enliven, improve and extend an existing building.  Bolt-on elements will be configured to provide four typologies that build upon each other: micro - an edible garden window box, mini - a balcony space, midi - an outdoor room and maxi - a communal space.
For the purposes of the competition one fully-functioning show apartment will be constructed by November 2009 and a set of inter-connected “nodes” illustrating individual technologies (e.g. grey water filtering / living roof / rainwater + energy harvesting) will be distributed around sites in Wellington.

A Living Solution

We will be using “living” and eco-system services to improve the existing building fabric as well as being a catalyst for change in the surrounding area. 
Bolt-on elements enliven the façade. “Living” walls / roofs + vertical “swamp” features link THE PLANT ROOM’S, filtering grey water - this will be used to water edible gardens and flush toilets. Communal “PLANT ROOM’S” are also proposed which provide additional edible garden allotments along with a space to socialise with other building occupants.

These eco-system services will be demonstrated throughout Wellington to help communicate the scheme to the widest possible audience as simply and clearly as possible.

How can you become involved?

We need to take THE PLANT ROOM to the next level.  Can you help us with services, materials, finance, transport, your time, a site or more?

We can offer you opportunities to:
•    Align with innovative research
•    Communicate with the community in a high visibility project
•    Demonstrate systems
•    Conduct product testing
•    Be exposed to national media
•    And much more …

We’d love to discuss how you could be involved over the next two years in nurturing this groundbreaking project.
Contact (Wellington):

Alex Hills
021577135
admin@shac09wellington.org
www.shac09wellington.org

Contact (National):

Tim Bishop
021705346
tim@shac.org.nz
www.shac.org.nz