AD 199 ENERGIES New Material Boundaries

Description

At present, material energies – that is thermal variation, air velocity, spectrums of light and electricity – remain a largely untapped source of innovation and inspiration for architects. Commonly relegated to the production of ambience – ‘moods’ or ‘effects’ – energies tend to be explored, in a design context, as little more than metaphor or poetics. Alternatively, they are regarded wholly as a resource for providing preconceived, rule-of-thumb interior comfort zones or as a set of measurables for determining ‘energy efficient’ buildings. Energies looks at ways of elevating these materials from their dependence on surfaces and services and in so doing, deploying them as building materials in themselves; thus redefining our physical boundaries through a wholly new means of spatial organisation.

• The publication propels the sustainability debate forward by making ‘material energies’ the catalyst for experimental design.
• The issue deals with a wide range of scales of design, from architecture to building design and that of landscape and urban planning
• Contributors include Michelle Addington, Petra Blaisse, Penelope Dean, Helene Furjan, An Te Liu, Zbigniew Oksiuta, Philippe Rahm and WEATHERS.

CONTENTS

• Helen Castle: Editorial
• Sean Lally: Introduction: Twelve Easy Pieces for the Piano
• Michelle Addington: Contingent Behaviours
• Mason White: 99.7 Per Cent Pure
• Penelope Dean: ‘Never Mind All That Environmental Rubbish, Get On With Your Architecture’
• Philippe Rahm: Meteorological Architecture
• Mathieu Lehanneur: Domestic Micro-Environments
• Zbigniew Oksiuta: Breeding the Future
• Sean Lally: When Cold Air Sleeps
• Sean Lally: Overlooked the Day Before: The Work of Pierre Huyghe
• David Gissen: Energy Histories
• AMID (Cero9): Cristina Díaz Moreno + Efrén García Grinda: Energy Forms
• Petra Blaisse: The Instinctive Sense of Space and Boundary
• Sean Lally: Potential Futures
• Howard Watson: Interior Eye: Kings Place: Hall One
• Jayne Merkel: Practice Profile: Weisz + Yoes (WXY architecture + urban design)
• David Littlefield: Building Profile: The Royal Institution
• Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee: Unit Factor: Articulating Environmental Grounds
• Neil Spiller: Spiller’s Bits: Architecture of Disbelief: Is Architectural Speciation a Good Thing?
• Ken Yeang: Yeang’s Eco-Files: Bioluminescence and Nanoluminescence
• Will McLean: McLean’s Nuggets
• Valentina Croci: Userscape: An Unconventional Low-Cost Museum
• Eric Firley: Site Lines: Tower Houses of Sana’a

136 pages, color ills / 21 x 27,5 cm / English