Bruno Stagno Arquitecto y Asociados S.A. + Institute for Tropical Architecture

Many of the competition entries feature energy and resource-reducing design elements.  Most all of the designs featured green roofs, vegetation-dense roof tops that provide added thermal mass to an area of high solar exposure.

Bruno Stagno Arquitecto y Asociados's entry topped their green roof with a unique leaf-like floating plane that serves as a covered terrace and rainwater collection device.  Rainwater runs down level by level through individual apartment spaces, each featuring its own reflecting pool, until it reaches a ground level "wateryard" for evaporation and passive cooling of air.  The cooled air ventilates back up into the dwelling spaces.

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