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CHOOSE and WATCH ONE video minimum. Add in the comment box for the video you watched,  1 to 3 KEY TAKE AWAYS.

To help you do this, try to reflect which sustainability aspects apply to cases discussed? And is there a clear priority at the expense of another aspect? How inter-related are these?

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Anupama Kundoo: More Common Than Different (25 mins)

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Anupama Kundoo: More Common Than Different (25 mins)

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https://channel.louisiana.dk/video/anupama-kundoomore-common-than-different

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Anupama Kundoo: More Common Than Different

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“You cannot want adventure AND security. It’s two different things.” Renowned Indian Architect about her view on life and architecture.

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Sustainability in Scandinavia:" Sara Grahn

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Harvard CGBC 2015 Fall Conference "Sustainability in Scandinavia:" Sara Grahn

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Mariam Kamara from Atelier Masomi on 'architecture's ability to alter the narrative' (26 mins)

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Mariam Kamara from Atelier Masomi on 'architecture's ability to alter the narrative' (26 mins)

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Mariam Kamara's approach to architecture is as much about sociology and anthropology as it is about building.

A firm believer of design's significant role in the functioning of society, she kicked off her Design Indaba Conference 2019 talk by painting a picture of her home country, Niger, giving a clear portrayal of its context.

She explained that the land-locked country's dry climate and flat terrain has economic implications of its own. In addition, with a largely Muslim population, there are conservative-leaning nuances too that must be considered. Another challenge is presented in being restricted to just 3 locally-available materials: recycled metal, compressed earth bricks and cement.

All these factors intrinsically inform the projects Kamara and her studio Atelia masomi have taken on.

Niamey 2000 for example, is a housing complex inspired the cultural behaviours and habits that takes into consideration the communal nature of the local society. Made with compressed earth bricks, it responds to the city of Niamey's need for increased density without violating the sense of privacy that the locals covet.

The Hikma Religious and Secular Centre in Dandaji on the other hand, is a de-facto response to a very serious concern. With Niger having one of the youngest populations globally, Kamara says a problem presents itself in that this population has "very little access to education and a lot of access to religion," making way for an intense situation that could potentially result in radicalisation.

With a brief to create to separate projects, the team felt strongly that religious institution and educational instritution should be combined in order to aid agency between the two.

"All of a sudden the relationship between the two, which nowadays all over the world, really you have this confrontation between secular knowledge and religion," she says.

Addding, "And so for us that was an opportunity to address that and help de-escalate that tension in just a very benign, very simple way."

Beyond this, the centre also enabled the team to devise new ways of producing old forms, given that the project took its initial cue from reviving a derelict mosque. Instead of starting anew, they used this as an opportynity to produce new interpretations of old techniques.

She ackowledges that a big part of her studio's role became fixing: "We were starting to feel as though we were becoming repairmen and women, where every time there was a project, all of a sudden there were all these opportunities for fixing something or for making a contribution towards making something better."

Kamara's talk concluded with the revelation of the Artisan's Valley project in the city of Niamey, which is a collaboration between Atelier masomi and Design Indaba. Inspired by the work of Nigerien historian and politician Boubou Hama, it aims to create a public space that can sustain various social functions. The greater goal is to bring together both sides of the valley, a divide between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots' which was perpetuated beyond colonial rule.

Like her other projects, she sees this as a means to foster a more positive perception of her home country. "I think it's a great step towards changing the narrative of a place that has been deeply negative," she says. All the details of Artisan's Valley are available here.
Watch the full talk: Watch more talks: Francis Kere: African architecture should copying the West David Adjaye on evolving typologies in architecture

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Architecture's ability to alter narratives with Mariam Kamara | Design Indaba

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Mariam Kamara's approach to architecture is as much about sociology and anthropology as it is about building. A firm believer of design's significant role in the functioning of society, she kicked off her Design Indaba Conference 2019 talk by painting a picture of her home country, Niger, giving a clear portrayal of its context.

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Four examples of Sustainable Urban Development (10 mins)

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Four examples of Sustainable Urban Development (10 mins)

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By Delft university, covering Vauban in Freiburg, Amsterdam, Hammarby Sjöstad & Västra Hamne

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiybgBKVsog

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Dorte Mandrup Interview: Where Place Meets Sculpture

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建築家

美学、空間、素材、構造の再定義。それが坂茂さんの一貫した建築哲学である。紙管や輸送コンテナを利用した常識破りの建築は、震災からの復興支援に結実してその先見性が証明されることになった。クーパー・ユニオン建築学部を卒業後、磯崎新アトリエを経て1985年に坂茂建築設計を設立。主な作品に｢カーテンウォールの家｣、「ハノーバー国際博覧会日本館」、「ポンピドー・センター・メス」などがある。日本建築学会賞作品部門、オーギュスト・ペレ賞、芸術選奨文化部科学大臣賞など受賞多数。これまで慶応義塾大学、ハーバード大学、コーネル大学などで教鞭を執り、現在は京都造形芸術大学教授を務める。

社会の役に立たない建築家

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美学、空間、素材、構造の再定義。それが坂茂さんの一貫した建築哲学である。紙管や輸送コンテナを利用した常識破りの建築は、震災からの復興支援に結実してその先見性が証明されることになった。クーパー・ユニオン建築学部を卒業後、磯崎新アトリエを経て1985年に坂茂建築設計を設立。主な作品に｢カーテンウォールの家｣、「ハノーバー国際博覧会日本館」、「ポンピドー・センター・メス」などがある。日本建築学会賞...

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Talk by Thomas Norgaard Christensen & Co (20 mins)

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Talk by Thomas Norgaard Christensen & Co (20 mins)

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Sustainability in Scandinavia

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Harvard CGBC 2015 Fall Conference "Sustainability in Scandinavia:" Thomas Norgaard

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"Sustainability Is A Synonym Of Beauty": In Conversation With Anna Heringer

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"Sustainability Is A Synonym Of Beauty": In Conversation With Anna Heringer

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https://www.archdaily.com/959398/sustainability-is-a-synonym-of-beauty-in-conversation-with-anna-heringer?fbclid=IwAR2jzwabgyuh0ZA-bLjbh1bHaRYcyjRTDospgJMaTKx6y8VUhHNkG5mqPf4

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Talking to the Louisiana Channel, German architect Anna Heringer outlines the way she works and her multi-disciplinary approach to architectural practice. Growing up in a small town at the Austrian-Bavarian border close to Salzburg - Heringer spent a year living and working in Bangladesh at the age of 19, a place that is now home to a majority of her office's projects. Heringer describes herself as a mix of things in addition to being an architect, describing herself as an activist and a development worker - using her creativity to explore ideas in a variety of forms and media.

As an architect, Anna is very conscious of the value of understanding the local context and sense of place when undertaking a new project, linking to her passion for creating architectural responses rooted in sustainability. "For me, it is essential that the materials are local, the energy sources are local, and with energy sources, I think of human labor". Saying that if human labor is not used, "we create a social problem." In tandem with the importance of local know-how and local building techniques, Anna is also steadfast about using local materials which are more environmentally-friendly and have less embodied energy, "We have fantastic local materials all around the world, we just need to see and be aware of them. Less concrete, more earth - we can't continue to build as we do. Here in Germany, I figured out that the cheapest solution always is the least sustainable, while in Bangladesh the cheapest solution also is the most sustainable."

To see more architecture videos, check ArchDaily's full coverage of Louisiana Channel's series of interviews. News Via Louisiana Channel.
Detailing her work in Bangladesh, Anna realizes the value of knowledge sharing in a cross-cultural context - where in addition to "sustainability being a synonym of beauty", architecture can also play a part on a social scale, as she explains using the example of the METI School project, how the builders of the project, with the wages they earned, then put that money back into the local community, purchasing goods from local markets.

I think architecture is a really powerful tool to shape our society. Just by the way, we choose our materials, construction processes, and how many people are included in the building we can really make an impact. To me, the essential question that I always have in the back of my mind when I am designing and deciding is: what if seven billion people would decide the same way? Would it contribute to social justice? To the environment? All these questions are central because I deeply believe that the world is not changing through one big decision. It's the everyday small decisions that are really shaping our environment and society - Anna Heringer

Heringer's METI School won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2007, utilizing sustainable bamboo frame construction in conjunction with historical building techniques using locally available earth. Anna Heringer is an honorary professor of the UNESCO Chair of Earthen Architecture, Building Cultures, and Sustainable Development, where she focuses on the use of natural building materials in architecture. Over the years, Anna has realized projects across continents - ranging from Asia to Africa and Europe. Together with Martin Rauch, she has developed the " Clay Storming" method - brainstorming using clay - that she uses to teach at various universities, including ETH Zurich, UP Madrid, TU Munich and GSD/Harvard.

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"Sustainability Is A Synonym Of Beauty": In Conversation With Anna Heringer

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Talking to the Louisiana Channel, German architect Anna Heringer outlines the way she works and her multi-disciplinary approach to architectural practice. Growing up in a small town at the Austrian-Bavarian border close to Salzburg - Heringer spent a year living and working in Bangladesh at the age of 19, a place that is now home to a majority of her office's projects.

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Siv Stangeland - Helen & Hard (from 58 mins in ) Vindmollebakken- participatory design

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Siv Stangeland - Helen & Hard (from 58 mins in ) Vindmollebakken- participatory design

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Architects Climate Action Network Finland

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10.- How can we reimagine living environments?

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Swiss Village Sprinter Building in Masdar City, United Arab Emirates

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Swiss Village Sprinter Building in Masdar City, United Arab Emirates

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https://archello.com/project/building-implementing-holistic-architectural-design
https://www.hurleypalmerflatt.com/case_study/sprinter-building-swiss-village/

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"It’s a small building with great symbolic meaning." | Architect Dorte Mandrup | Louisiana Channel

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"It’s a small building with great symbolic meaning." | Architect Dorte Mandrup | Louisiana Channel

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"It’s a small building with great symbolic meaning." | Architect Dorte Mandrup | Louisiana Channel

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Grace Kim: How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer)

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Grace Kim: How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer)

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Grace Kim: How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer)

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Loneliness doesn't always stem from being alone. For architect Grace Kim, loneliness is a function of how socially connected we feel to the people around us -- and it's often the result of the homes we live in.

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https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-vault/

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Svalbard is a remote Norwegian archipelago with reindeer, Arctic foxes and only around 2,500 humans - but it is also home to a vault containing seeds for virtually every edible plant one can imagine. The mountainside Crop Trust facility has thousands of varieties of corn, rice and more, serving as a seed backup for humanity. For each crop, there's an envelope with 500 seeds.

This featured episode explores an unusual reserve of invaluable resources. It is designed to be egalitarian, beyond everyday politics and international strife. Any nation can store seeds in the vault for free, making the vault a sort of world peace zone. South Korea's seeds sit next to North Korea's. Ukraine's are right next to Russia's. Protecting our food supply is one thing the whole world can get behind.

The vault's origins start with one man during World War II - a global existential crisis if ever there was one. His name was Nikolay Vavilov and he lived in what was then the Soviet Union. He grew up during some intense famines in eastern Europe, and he was determined to never let them happen again. As Vavilov began his work as a botanist during the 1920s, he developed an idea: maybe collecting the seeds, and understanding how crop diversity across the world works, could help to fight off crop failures and to prevent famines. Vavilov and a team began gathering hundreds of thousands of different kinds of seeds from 64 countries during more than 100 expeditions.

Vavilov's team continued his mission through the siege of Leningrad, which lasted almost two and a half years. More than a million people died - half of them from starvation alone. They persisted even when they were starving and the seeds they were protecting could have saved their lives. In total, twelve scientists perished protecting seeds. Vavilov himself starved to death in prison. But the seeds survived.

The Svalbard vault is a direct descendant of this legacy, and the building in St. Petersburg where Vavilov first began his work is now the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry.

The First Withdrawal

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault may be the most famous such facility in the world, but it is not the only one. 99pi producer Emmett Fitzgerald looked into another seed bank in Syria, run by the organization ICARDA (International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas). He spoke with the former director Mahmoud Solh. Like Nikolai Vavilov, when Dr. Solh was a young plant scientist he set off on his own seed collecting journey. He made his way through Central Asian countries including Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and Afghanistan.

Dr. Solh drove all over Afghanistan in a Jeep looking for wild lentils and chickpeas. The seeds he gathered were the beginning of the ICARDA collection. ICARDA stores seeds and breeds plants that can help farmers in dry parts of the world. They have one of the world's largest collections of drought tolerant seeds, including thousands of varieties of barley, lentil, and fava beans.

For years this collection was stored in a facility in Aleppo, Syria, but when the violence in that country broke out in 2011 the plant scientists started to get worried about their seeds, and so they sent seeds to other seed banks around the world before they were forced to leave Aleppo.

Cary Fowler, the founder of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, ended up calling Dr. Solh and inviting him to store some ICARDA seeds up in the Norwegian Arctic. "We got them up to Svalbard," he recalls, "and when it became clear that those researchers were not going to be able to go back to their institution and they had re-established themselves in Morocco and Lebanon ... they asked for their seed collection back so they could re-establish their seed bank."

This was the first time that anyone had taken seeds back out of Svalbard, and they used those seeds that had been stored in Svalbard to create two new seed banks, one in Morocco and one in Lebanon. Cary Fowler says this shows that the seed vault can function like a back-up hard drive. And he points out that when it comes to our food supply, the risk of not having good backup is really high. "In the past this kind of event would likely have led to extinction. And in this case I think it's pretty clear that that would be the extinction of something terribly valuable to world agriculture ... because in the future you can imagine that drought- and heat-tolerant varieties of wheat, barley ... lentils ... chickpeas and such are going to be in high demand."

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Svalbard is a remote Norwegian archipelago with reindeer, Arctic foxes and only around 2,500 humans - but it is also home to a vault containing seeds for virtually every edible plant one can imagine. The mountainside Crop Trust facility has thousands of varieties of corn, rice and more, serving as a seed backup for humanity.

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Self-sufficient house in California by LINDA TAALMAN (19:55- min)

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Self-sufficient house in California by LINDA TAALMAN (19:55- min)

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https://areena.yle.fi/1-4252532

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K1, J2: Minun kestävä keitaani | Tulevaisuuden unelma-asunnot

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2/4. Minun kestävä keitaani. Tänään esitellään kierrätysmateriaalista rakennettu hollantilaistalo, omavaraiselle elämäntavalle perustuva talo Kaliforniassa sekä lontoolaistalo, joka on täynnä vanhaa tekniikkaa. Tanskalainen sarja asumisesta. Tuotanto: DR, 2017.

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https://youtu.be/aLXppWXsR9Y

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Kengo Kuma Interview: Architecture for Our Time

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I have this 'provocative' case study, I'm not sure it fits very well, but I think it can raise thoughts and discussions. It's a project by Lacaton et Vassal in Bordeaux, they were asked to embellish an old Plaza and in the end they took the statement to doesn't change anything at all, is it still architecture? Is it sustainable? Does it answer to the 10 holistic sustainable architecture themes well?

https://www.lacatonvassal.com/index.php?idp=37#

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Place Léon Aucoc, Bordeaux

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Bordeaux, France
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1996

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Ville de Bordeaux

This project fits within the framework of an "embellishment" plan for many town squares instigated by Bordeaux City Council in 1996. The square is triangular in shape, bordered by trees, with benches and a space for playing pétanque, like a village square.
Around it, the houses with their sober but well-designed facades form an excellent example of estate architecture and of collective public housing.
On our first visit we get the feeling that this square is already beautiful because of it's authentic, lacking in sophistication. it possesses the beauty of what is obvious, necessary, right. Its meaning emerges directly. People seems at home here in an atmosphere of harmony and tranquillity formed over many years.
We've spent some time watching what happened there. We've conversed with a few of the local inhabitants.
Then we asked ourselves about a development project on this square with a view to its embellishment.
What does the idea of "embellishment" boil down to ?
Does it involve replacing one groundcover with another ? A wooden bench with a more-up-to-date design in stone ? Or a lamp standard with another, more fashionable, one ? Nothing calls for too great a set of changes.
Embellishment has no place here.
Quality, charm, life exist. The square is already beautiful.
As a project we've proposed doing nothing apart from some simple and rapid maintenance works - replacing the gravel, cleaning the square more often, treating the lime trees, slightly modifying the traffic- of a kind to improve use of the square and to satisfy the locals.

Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal, architects

Ce projet intervient dans le cadre d'un projet d'"Embellissement" de plusieurs places, engagé par la ville de Bordeaux en 1996.
La place est en triangle, bordée d'arbres, avec des bancs et un espace pour jouer à la pétanque, comme une place de village.
Autour, les maisons aux façades sobres mais bien dessinées forment un bel exemple d'architecture de lotissement et d'habitat collectif social.
A la première visite, nous ressentons que cette place est déjà très belle parce qu'elle est authentique, sans sophistication. Elle a la beauté de ce qui est évident, nécessaire, suffisant. Son sens apparaît clairement. Les gens semblent y être chez eux, dans une atmosphère d'harmonie et de tranquillité, façonnée depuis de nombreuses années.
Nous y avons passé de longs moments à regarder ce qui s'y passait. Nous avons dialogué avec quelques uns de ses habitants.
Puis nous nous sommes posés la question d'un projet d'aménagement sur cette place à des fins d'embellissement.
A quoi renvoie la notion d'"embellissement" ?
S'agit-il de remplacer un matériau de sol par un autre, un banc en bois par un banc en pierre, au design plus actuel, ou un lampadaire par un autre plus à la mode ? Rien n'impose des changements trop importants.
Ici, l'embellissement n'a pas lieu d'être.
La qualité, le charme, la vie existent. La place est déjà belle.

Comme projet, nous avons proposé de ne rien faire d'autre que des travaux d'entretien, simples et immédiats : refaire la grave du sol, nettoyer plus souvent, traiter les tilleuls, modifier légèrement la circulation, ..., de nature à améliorer l'usage de la place et à satisfaire les habitants.

Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal, architectes

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Place Léon Aucoc, Bordeaux lieu / location: Bordeaux, France > show on map année / year: 1996 catégorie / type: espace public/public space état / status: built / réalisé client: Ville de Bordeaux This project fits within the framework of an "embellishment" plan for many town squares instigated by Bordeaux City Council in 1996.

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Our House - inspiring architecture for our future | Siv Helene Stangeland | TEDxStavanger

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Architecture's ripple effect: Designing for big impact (13min)

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Architecture's ripple effect: Designing for big impact (13min)

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Architecture's ripple effect: Designing for big impact | Thomas Bryans | TEDxGuildford

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Paracity: urban acupuncture | Marco Casagrande | TEDxNapoli

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Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design

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Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design

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This is a project at my undergraduate university, and it was really interesting to watch it develop and finally occupy it. The whole school and outside community was involved, and the building has been granted its Living Building Certification for fulfilling all of the petals, including during operation.

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Cooperative housing in Spain. Passive low-tech techniques and decission making process for the whole building with its inhabitants

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Wienerberger Brick Awards - Grand Prize "Special Solution" (2016)

EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Award - shortlisted (2015)

Energy Globe Foundation - Award for Sustainability (2015)

Rat der Formgebung - German Design Award - Gold (2015)

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The growing demand for energy efficient buildings tends to lead to increasingly complex buildings. While buildings require less and less energy, more and more is being spent on the maintenance and service needed to sustain this reduction. The human element is often a disruptive factor in the ideal performance of a building. Project 2226 is a low-tech alternative design response to this problem.

The building is named '2226' after the temperature range (22°C to 26°C) that the building is designed to maintain through totally natural means. The building is indeed entirely free of any mechanical heating, ventilation or air conditioning systems.

The temperature stability is ensured first and foremost by an enormous thermal mass. The envelope has a cavity wall structure with each wall consisting of 76-centimetre-thick bricks. The inner layer (38-centimetre-thick layer of load-bearing vertical coring bricks) ensures high compressive strength while the outer layer (38 centimetres of insulating bricks) guarantees efficient insulation. These massive walls can store and radiate the heat emitted by the occupants and technical equipment (computers, lights).

Sensors constantly measure the energy consumption, the interior temperature and the humidity and carbon dioxide levels. Narrow openings integrated into the windows, operated by software, ensure a sufficient supply of fresh air independently from the occupants and prevent the building from excessive cooling in winter or overheating in summer. They only open if the level of carbon dioxide in the room increases excessively, or at night in summer to cool the atmosphere.

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Rolf Disch - Building for Social Purposes

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Senior citizens' residence Bürkle-Bleiche (courtyard with biotope) Senior citizens' residence Bürkle-Bleiche (façade, partial view) Building for Social Purposes Long before the office dealt with issues of energy supply and climate change, it was known for its social projects. Schools, kindergartens, youth centres, sports halls: Is not it a convincing idea today to convey the idea ...