AD 214 EXPIRAMENTAL GREEN STRATEGIES

Description

Sustainable design and ecological building are the most significant global challenges for the design profession. To meet new building regulations and national targets for carbon emissions, all future buildings will be judged on their ‘green’ merits. For architects to maintain a competitive edge in a global market, innovation is now key; the design of new processes, technologies and materials that combat carbon emissions and improve the sustainable performance of buildings are paramount. Contemporary practices have responded by setting up multi- disciplinary internal research and development teams, with offices such as Foster + Partners, HOK and Aedas setting the bar for ground-breaking research and development. The aim of internal groups is often to adapt and create new technologies and materials and to borrow ways of working from other disciplines, to focus on innovation rather than incrementally increasing performance or efficiency. This title offers insights into how a wide range of established and emerging practices are rising to meet these challenges. In pursuit of integrated sustainability and low-energy building, material and formal innovation and new tools and technologies, it illustrates that the future of architecture is evolving in an exchange of ideas across disciplines. Incorporating the creation of new knowledge about ecological building within the profession, it also identifies the emergence of a collective will to seek out new routes that build in harmony with the environment.

Contributors: Robert Aish, Peter Busby, Mary Ann Lazarus, Andrew Marsh, Hugh Whitehead and Simos Yannas.

Featured offices: Aedas Architects, Atelier Ten, Autodesk Research, Biomimicry Guild, Foster + Partners, GXN, Hoberman Associates, HOK, Nikken Sekkei, Perkins + Will Canada, RAU, 10 Design and 2012 Architecten.

CONTENTS

• Terri Peters: Expiramental Green Strategies: Refinding Ecological Design Research
• Robert Aish: Designing at t+n
• Hugh Whitehead, Irene Gallou, Harsh Thapar, Geovanni Betti and Salmaan Greg: Driving an Ecological Agenta with Project-Led Research
• Christian Derix, Judit Kimpian, Abdoulmajit Karanouh and Josh MAson: Feedback Architecture
• Terri Peters: Nature as Measure:The Biomimicry Guilt
• Simos Yannas: Adaptive Strategies for an Ecological Architecture
• Kaper Guldager Jørgensen: GXN: Building Networks for Collaborative Research on Materials in Architecture
• Laura Lesniewski: Learning from Nature: Omega Center for Sustainable Living
• Andrew March and Azam Khan: Simulation and the Future of Design Tools for Ecological Research
• Peter Busby, Max Richter, Michael Driedger: Towards a New Relationship with Nature: Research and Regenerative Design in Architecture
• Tomohiko Yamanashi, Tatsuya Hatori, Yoshido Ishihara + Norisha Kawashima (Nikken Sekkei Ltd) and Katsumi Niwa (Nikken Sekkei Research Institute): BIO SKIN Urban Cooling Facade
• Meredith Davey: Gardens by the Bay:Ecologicaly Reflective Design
• Ted Givens: 10 Design: Beyond Neutrality
• Ziggy Drozdowski: The Adaptive Building Initiative:The Functional Aesthetic of Adaptivity
• Terri Peters: Ecology Beyond Buildings – Performance-Based Consumption and Zero-Energy Research: RAU Architects
• Rachel Armstrong: Is There Something Beyond “Outside of the Box”?

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