Hello Eric, I have a couple of quick comments for you. 1. Look at the complete picture when you say "green" 2. Look at cradle to cradle material 3. When you look at precedents try and research if the carbon footprint of the site has increased or decreased. One example is the CII Godrej Building, in Hyderabad, India. (This building maintains the carbon footprint neutral currently and in next three years this building will be a positive energy building and helping the carbon footprint of the community go lower.) This site plan looks at various ideologies of sustainability and embraces quite a few of them. Some of them are: Not a single natural physical feature of the site has been moved. Basic elements of nature used to power the building by integrating them to increase the output. Choice of materials is vernacular to the site. The sewage (both types) is naturally treated within the site using reverse osmosis process. Some possibilities I see for your design: Use parametric to integrate sustainability by starting of with a set up of simple systems with complex arrangements. Study morphology in nature, I am not happy with the precedents chosen (based on the background of the project you described). These precedents are good only to study some aspects of function of the space but not the form. Be inspired by the idea of emergence in nature Study how nature heals itself and try to imply those examples in your sauna / bath / spa Look at these concepts: Use used tires fill them up with adobe and use them as walls. This process helps slowdown the release of carbon from the used tire, with adobe trapping it and also acts as a building material with potential to store carbon than release it. Will keep posting more ideas... I think discussing further will help you a lot when typing comments is restricted to some number of words. :) I am happy you have taken this challenging task and i promise to help you all through it. Best Regards, Sanksshep
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ReplyDeletePlease post the image and not just the links. Prof Jill
ReplyDeleteHello Eric,
ReplyDeleteI have a couple of quick comments for you.
1. Look at the complete picture when you say "green"
2. Look at cradle to cradle material
3. When you look at precedents try and research if the carbon footprint of the site has increased or decreased. One example is the CII Godrej Building, in Hyderabad, India. (This building maintains the carbon footprint neutral currently and in next three years this building will be a positive energy building and helping the carbon footprint of the community go lower.)
This site plan looks at various ideologies of sustainability and embraces quite a few of them. Some of them are:
Not a single natural physical feature of the site has been moved. Basic elements of nature used to power the building by integrating them to increase the output.
Choice of materials is vernacular to the site.
The sewage (both types) is naturally treated within the site using reverse osmosis process.
Some possibilities I see for your design:
Use parametric to integrate sustainability by starting of with a set up of simple systems with complex arrangements.
Study morphology in nature, I am not happy with the precedents chosen (based on the background of the project you described). These precedents are good only to study some aspects of function of the space but not the form.
Be inspired by the idea of emergence in nature
Study how nature heals itself and try to imply those examples in your sauna / bath / spa
Look at these concepts:
Use used tires fill them up with adobe and use them as walls. This process helps slowdown the release of carbon from the used tire, with adobe trapping it and also acts as a building material with potential to store carbon than release it.
Will keep posting more ideas... I think discussing further will help you a lot when typing comments is restricted to some number of words. :)
I am happy you have taken this challenging task and i promise to help you all through it.
Best Regards,
Sanksshep
Sorry for the typo It should be *Parametrics
ReplyDeleteGood job so far keep it up!!