How can roofs allow cities to enter a new climactic era?
Roofscapes, a startup incubated at MIT and founded by Eytan Levi MArch ’21, MSRED ’21, Tim Cousin MArch ’23, and Olivier Faber MArch ’23, was invited to create an installation for the 2021 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. The final product, titled Head in the Clouds, offers a tactical solution for the future of urban centers. Through this work, Roofscapes aims to vegetate the roofs of European urban centers and mitigate the lack of outdoor spaces, biodiversity loss, and urban heat island effects.
After the Biennale the installation will be displayed at the newly created Académie du Climat in Paris, located at 2 Place Baudoyer, 75004 Paris, France.