Project Title: The Nviro Club

Project Location: Pretoria 

Project Focus Area: Digital Twin Cities 

Supervisor(s): Christo van der Hoven & Dr Calayde Davey 

Project Description 

Today we are faced with a world being destroyed by ourselves. Innovation can be applied as the solution to cultivating a world of renewable environments rather than destructive environments. The solution of practising and celebrating innovation however can not only be done by the experts in their fields, this encompassing innovation is required from the whole. Innovation for our environment should become a known topic to the everyday citizen, who has the everyday practical impact in applying the solution in dialogue with the expert. The expert should guide the development of the solution with their expertise as the everyday citizen (the citizen scientist) points out the everyday problem practically faced. 

The NviroClub Lab workshop, practise, share and celebrate innovation on renewable energy, building materials and systems as well as our designed ecologies. The expert in the specialised thermal systems energy integration lab and the citizen scientist brainstorming in the collaborative workshop space mutually workshop and practise innovation. And exactly the contrasting perspectives integrated, result in the success of the innovation applied.

Following the open building architectural principle of adaptability and flexibility together with sustainable urbanism theory, the NviroClub Lab Precinct foster a social network of collaboration and integration. The innovation laboratory and expo precinct are further characterized as a living building that has the capacity to adapt to the needs of the user and facilitate the testing of innovation within the built of the building itself. 

The NviroClub Lab Precinct creates a node in the knowledge corridor that brings innovation to the streets, that brings innovation to the everyday citizen, where the citizen scientist becomes part of the environmental innovation dialogue.