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Module 1 - Design Inspirations & Big Feature Ideas
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Melanie Porras
Sustainable Built Environment Learning and Exhibition Center
Themes to Embody:
- Sustainable materiality (rammed earth, timber, engineered cementitious composites)
- Not carbon-intensive materials
- Locally sourced
- Decarbonized Building, which includes:
- Optimal design to minimize energy usage
- The building is built perpendicular to the direction of the wind to enable natural ventilation
- The building is also built in a direction that maximizes the usage of natural light
- The optimal positioning to accomplish the above is a North-South placement
- Sustainable energy sources
- Structural integrity/durability
- Using the geometry of shapes to add double stiffness of materials
- Climate Resiliency/Adaptability
Inspirations for Themes:
- Sustainable Materiality: Rammed Earth Architecture
- Sustainable Materiality: Mass Timber
- Decarbonized Building: Stanford Building Decarbonization Learning Accelerator
- I have worked with the Stanford BDLA since the start of the year and their website has some great resources
- Decarbonized Building: Optimal Orientation Placement
- Structural integrity/durability through geometry: hyperbolic paraboloids (hypars)
- Climate Resiliency/Adaptability
- Dependent on building location as climate change will be different regionally
- Fireproofing, anti-corrosion to acid rain, buoyant foundation...
- Ex. painting roof white to reflect light and not contribute to heat island effect that occurs in cities
tzou lubroth architekten’s studio
Hyperbolic paraboloids (hypars) are thin-shell concrete structures that became prominent in the mid 20th century with the work of Felix Candela. Candela, a Spanish-Mexican structural engineer, focused on creating thin shell concrete forms with the intention of creating structures that were more efficient, economic, and elegant. Inspired by other thin-shell concrete architects and structural engineers, like Pier Luigi Nervi, Eduardo Torroja, and Anton Tedesko, Candela was infamous for his designs of thin-shelled concrete structures of the hyperbolic paraboloid (hypar) geometric shape.