Half Moon Bay, CA -
Wave Crest and was designed with Big Sur, CA, organic architect, Mickey Muennig and proposed to be built in Half Moon Bay, CA. It is a 28 acre ecological teaching facility for 200 students and faculty. Designed to be totally sustainable, it features state of the art organic architecture design and technologies.
The buildings are composed of translucent concrete, imbedded with Kevlar, Carbon and fiber optic fibers, into the concrete matrix. The patina outer surface structure, like a sea shell, is rougher and the landscape literally grows into it from the ground. The inner surface of the buildings is smooth, with an illuminated and iridescent mother of pearl like finish. Indirect sunlight through the glass, radiant floors and walls heat and cool the buildings through charged ion fields in the fiber optics that are imbedded in the concrete building shells. They maintain a constant 68 degree temperature.
All site infrastructure is inherent it its design including electricity from a patented, stationary wind generator, utilizing micro-poly phase induction and electro-magnetic "bearings".
Teaching is centered on five ecological zones and the landscape features a small example of each type: Beach, grassland, riparian, tidal pool and cypress forest.
The overall landscape is contoured like waves cresting and a rain water collection system is designed internally into the elevation changes in each "wave" contour. Native grasses with silver artemisia that crown each crest, blow gentle with the ever present wind. This site is home to the famous "mavericks", the monster sized waves and their surfers, as evident by the 80 ft. height eroded cliffs along the shore.
