Design Different - Center for Architecture - Buildings=Energy

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Front window - NYC Electricity & Gas use from Buildings

"Understanding energy use and how to change it, is an enormous challenge to the buildings construction and maintenance industries..." 

Fiona Cousins, PE, FCIBSE, LEED AP BD+C

Principal ARUP

Front Window - Comparison of Building Materials

“We wanted to bring the role of energy in the built environment and key energy principles, to the forefront in a way that engineers, architects, students, and everyday New Yorkers could relate to these concepts.”

Donna Zimmerman, Curator

Energy Efficient Discussion Panels 

“.. You can change the market...because developers could build offices with energy and cost  efficiency that is totally integral to the process for a whole new wave of development  more like in Europe...which generates income for the city and jobs …” 

Robert W. Goodwin, AIA, LEED AP, Perkins+Will

Perkins Will Office Design for 30th St.,10th Ave Site

“…BIM.(building information modeling) utilizes photographic and accounting software that now allows teams to identify conflicts previously discovered on the site.  By identifying energy efficiency opportunities in advance, costs are reduced." 

R. Anthony Fieldman, AIA, LEED AP, 

Principal, Perkins+Will

Along with the exciting Perkins+Will office design, Buildings=Energy features nearly 30 case studies of active sustainable projects underway in New York City.  For a look at how energy use in buildings is now being quantified in real time, AIANY's Managing Director Cynthia Phifer Kracauer suggested the Energy Lab downstairs on view with other community and family programming exhibits throughout Archtober.  

For more information about Center for Architecture, contact Nicole Friedman, Communications Director at: nfriedman@aiany.org

*Archtober - Architecture and Design Month at the Center for Architecture - The inaugural month-long festival of architecture activities, programs and exhibitions in New York City

"You don't know the power you have" Ed Mazria

Ed Mazria, Founder and CEO of Architecture 2030

“The building industry is responsible for 49% of the current carbon consumption; it is both the problem and the solution. ”

Ed Mazria's Architecture on the Brink, at the Cooper Union this past week, detailed how "with the stroke of their designers' pen", New York architects could redirect the tide of current global events tied to energy, economics and climate change.

When dubious, he told them "you don't know the power you have with suppliers and services in the marketplace, not just in New York, but throughout the world." By way of encouragement, over 70 percent of the industrialized world was built before computerized three dimensional drawing.

 

The International Style architects that shunned climate controlled structures of the Renaissance and transformed pre-industrial Europe in the 20th century used French curves.

Today‘s computer technology offers designers abundant freedom to create, “amazing structures like the Beijing Opera House, but at what cost ?”

AIANY's Committee on the Environment is to thank for organizing this event.  For more information about this and  other award-winning programming http://www.aiany.org/   
Join Ed Mazria's industry challenge to bring the building industry to carbon neutral by 2030 visit http://www.architecture2030.org/.

Rising Currents:NYC Harbor Boat Tour

"Rising Currents is about getting back to what brought people here.. "Barry Bergdoll, MoMA Chief Curator of Architecture and Design

“The exhibition and our tour is to view New York harbor where the national discussion on infrastructure and climate change intersect....get the idea of the water being up to your feet on deck, does that make it more palpable?”

Through his masterful interweaving of urgent issues, port history, and future visioning Barry Bergdoll led a richly informative tour through the 5 project sites. To transport us to the imaginative terrain of the architects-in-residence, Barry suggests we begin by softening the edges between land and sea and consider getting back to what originally brought people to New York, the port.

Each project team spokesperson offered some solution for us to live, work and grow more at sea:

Matter-of-Factly:

“We carved out some buildings in our design because, they'd be underwater anyway” Susannah Drake with a new sunken forest and coast extension for the East River.

“As you can see, it is currently a brownfield, the strategy is to have it absorb storm surges” Paul Lewis Water Proving Ground project for Liberty State Park

Deferentially,

“Inspired by the Dutch, the resilient inflatable dams are to accommodate the 9 million population growth “ Noah Levy for the New Aqueous City proposed for Sunset Park, Bay Ridge and Staten Island and

Michael Baird's Zone 2 Working Waterline with reuse of WWII buildings to raise green land and process waste water into fuel”

And hopefully:

"In 2050 after they have cleaned the canal, YES, we will again be able eat oysters from the Gowanus Canal" Ben Abelman's Oyster-Tecture.

Any ideas for your harbor? We'd love to hear them.

For the next Center for Architecture boat tour August, check http://bit.ly/aia-ny for details. For more about Rising Currents: Projects for New Yorks' Waterfront, visit MoMA.org/risingcurrents.

@n_o_r_a + @RachelWells re-connecting