EcoARK
Project : EcoARK
Date: June 2010
Client: Taipei Expo Park
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Award: The Earth Award 2010 Product Category
The EcoArk Pavilion located in Taipei, Taiwan is the world’s first fully functional and public structure made of Polli-Brick™. Built with 1.5 million recycled plastic bottles, the nine-story-tall EcoARK was a principle structure for the 2010 Taipei International Flora Exposition before being converted into a public museum. Its public spaces cover an area equivalent to that of six basketball courts. The building’s comfortable internal environment is courtesy of natural ventilation, an exterior waterfall which bathes the structure in water collected from rainstorms, as well as Polli-Brick™’s high insulation properties.
Embedded solar power captured during the day runs EcoArk’s LED lighting systems at night. The building, an addition to the Taipei skyline since 2010, has hosted numerous fashion shows, a music video filming and countless public meetings.
The EcoArk pavilion is widely hailed as a benchmark for the future of green buildings and adheres to the mantra of “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle”. It also makesa reality out of circular economy as it is built largely out of recycled plastic bottles. It weighs 50 percent less than a conventional building, yet it is strong enough to withstand the forces of nature, including fire. EcoArk is featured in National Geographic's Megastructures.