Little Haiti, Miami Community Center
The project aims to create a community-oriented design with a multifunctional program to facilitate and promote social cohesion through an inclusive approach. The goal is to create a safer and cleaner environment, which would help reduce crime, violence, and antisocial behavior in the area. Using sustainable passive design strategies influenced through studying biomimicry, the project will aim to represent the modern goal of sustainability in design.The circulation of water and nutrients aids the growth of a plant, the same way this cultural youth center will aid the community.
The Voronoi structure captures water in a storage tank via hydrophobic leaf surfaces. The water is absorbed then utilized to heat and cool the building as well as other things.
