Design Goals, Targets & Strategies - Lena Bakalian

Some broad goals I am hoping to include in the project design include:

• Sustainable: having the space be potentially convertible for a different use in the future (ie not too specific to an exhibition space/museum); ideally working towards getting to a net-zero building
• Constructible: keeping design interesting but also practical to lower cost and resources needed
• Operable: smart building that will monitor site and allow for easy operability of processes (adjusting for daylight, heating/cooling, etc)
• Useable: accessible building, thermal comfort, encourages healthy behavior (staircases prominently placed), green roof living-learning lab

Goal 1: Minimize energy usage

• Measure:  EUI (energy use intensity)
• Targets:
• minimally acceptable value: 45% reduction
• desired / target value: 65% reduction
• Strategies:
• passive design through orientation of building, overhangs, etc. to reduce amount of cooling/heating needed throughout the year
• leverage of daylight to reduce amount of needed artificial lighting
• Use of technology to monitor energy use throughout the day/year and automate processes within the building
• Solar panels?
• High R-value windows and proper, strategic insulation

Goal 2: Use of sustainable materials

• Measure: percent of recycled/sustainable material to new material
• Targets:
• minimally acceptable value: 60%
• desired / target value: 75%
• Strategies:
• Use of renewable materials such as locally sourced and certified timber, recycled materials, bamboo etc.
• Minimize use of concrete (specifically Portland cement); could use other type of sustainable concrete

Goal 3: Integrated into environment; minimal disruption to surroundings

• Measure: visual assessment/green area ratio
• Targets:
• minimally acceptable value: 60% green area
• desired / target value: 80% green area
• Strategies:
• Green spaces within the building - vertical garden/green wall
• Green roof to minimize the amount of impermeable space created by the building
• Native vegetation around the site and within the building
• Architecture of the building blends well into its surroundings