#eco dome

South Korea Unveils Stunning Eco Dome Environmental Center

The Ecorium Project, South Korea’s planned nature reserve, is a stunner. The 33,000 sq. meter park includes a wetland reserve, a wild plant area, and maybe—just maybe—two dudes and their hilarious hijinks.

The Ecorium Project, designed by S.A.M.O.O., exists as a key part of South Korea’s National Ecological Institute, which is intended ‘ do comprehensive study of the converging eco-systems of nature, human and climate to ensure safety, stability and the harmonious coexistence of competing agendas’ according to a S.A.M.O.O. spokesperson. Comprised of a series of interlinking, wedge-shaped greenhouse semi-domes. Within these, high-tech instruments track the sun and adapt the internal environment to create the greenhouse’s own internal ecosystems. This is expertly achieved through sun-tracking analysis- according to which the greenhouses are positioned- and as a part of this, shadow-tracking. This creates an optimal growing environment for the plants within by preventing any semi-dome from shading another. Low-iron, Low-e double  adorns the organic forms’ exteriors, contributing to the maintenance of the internal environment.

The buildings form an integral part of the public awareness/experience end of the grander NEI program, which ‘will play a important role as a think tank for research and policy making. Additionally, this institution will foster and nurture the general public’s awareness, educate and the importance of the environment through exhibitions and education programs’.