MEGASTRUCTURES: EcoARK Film screening and panel discussion (Johns Hopkins' Washington, DC Center) December 14, 2011

The EcoARK Pavilion, Taiwan's greenest building, is built from nearly 1.5 million recycled plastic bottles. The nine-story marvel of modern design was designed and built by architect Arthur Huang for the Taipei International Flora Expo.

The building imitates the honey-comb structure of beehives, making it strong enough to weather sub-tropical typhoons and survive pacific-rim earthquakes. The air pockets in the recycled bottles provide natural insulation, and an aerodynamic design captures prevailing winds to provide a no-energy solution to air conditioning. Even more remarkable is that the entire 21,500 square-foot exhibition hall can be disassembled and re-assembled anywhere in the world.

At 6:00pm on Wednesday, December 14, join the architectural mastermind behind the EcoARK project, Arthur Huang, for a viewing of the National Geographic Channel special about EcoARK, MEGASTRUCTURES: EcoARK. The documentary's executive producer, Stephen Hunter, and the Director of the Office of Sustainability at Johns Hopkins University, Davis Bookhart, will also speak on a panel following the screening.

The event will be held at:
The Johns Hopkins' Washington, DC Center
1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036.

This event is free and open to the public and is brought to you by Johns Hopkins University's Environmental Studies program and by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office.

For more information, see the JHU event announcement at:
http://advanced.jhu.edu/calendar?ContentID=3438

Official Website: http://advanced.jhu.edu/calendar?ContentID=3438