Shades of Green 1.0 – sustainable building approaches
About Biome
Biome Environmental Solutions is a multidisciplinary firm working on ecological designs. Its multidisciplinarity springs from the coming together of architects and people from various professions with keen interest and passion to work on ideas of water. The architecture part of Biome began in 1991 as Chitra Vishwanath architects and water began in 2000 as RainwaterClub, started by Chitra and Vishwanath respectively. In 2008 they merged and became Biome. The dictionary meaning of biome is the ecology of a place.
Biome to date has designed about 700 architectural projects of various scales and is involved with ideas on water from the household level to the national level. Biome water as it is called also advice on policy-level decisions to the government.
About the Talk
At Biome, we feel that the practice of architecture in the era of Anthropocene should go beyond space making and encompass more of the issues concerning the environment. This can be done only when multi-disciplines and interests come together. The talk is a conversation between the team Biome and what makes it a Biome. The team will also chat about how Biome engaged itself during the lean days of the pandemic with its book and archive project.