For our second exploration of the #ilookup campaign, let’s explore where our process starts. What happens before the first sketch or model? Where do we as a studio look for inspiration? Who and what do we look up to? I talked to some of the designers in our office to get a sense of what excites us as a collective—what motivates us and drives our passion to make beautiful architecture.
Overview:
Inspiration: http://www.overv.eu/
Memory
Image source: The New York Times
Landing on a moving comet
Image source: The New York Times
On making civic spaces
Source: ArchDaily
Emerging Technology
inFORM — Interacting With a Dynamic Shape Display
Inexperience
Ira Glass on Inexperience
Data Visualization
Source: You Are Here
Craft
Mental models
Source: Farnam Street Blog
Art that walks with the wind
Compilation
Flying boats
Luigi Prina: The Ships That Sail Through The Clouds
Less, but better
The art of story telling
Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks
Better maps
Source: City Lab
Cooking
How to cook BOBA from scratch
Related:
#ilookup
This Earth Week, we’ll be covering five landmark buildings exemplifying new approaches to building performance and sustainability.
The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Klarman Building is the first hospital in the northeast to implement chilled beams in an inpatient setting. Early energy analysis demonstrated that the use of chilled beams would be the best way to reduce building energy use.
For this strategy to work, however, the peak thermal loads of the façades could not exceed the capacity of the chilled beams. An integrated design approach and in-house modeling allowed for constant tuning of the façade to optimize glazing, solar exposure and massing. The building orients glazing to face true north and south to minimize heat gain and maximize occupant comfort, resulting in a 15% reduction in peak solar load.
Beyond performance, the distinctive serrated terracotta façade reflects the scale and cadence of individual patient rooms, providing a delicate scale and texture to the façade.
#earthweek #designalways #buildingscience #performalism #facade
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