About this book
In the 21st century, architects and engineers are being challenged to produce work that is concurrently sustainable and resilient. Buildings need to mitigate their impact on climate change by minimising their carbon footprint, while also countering the challenging new weather conditions. Globally, severe storms, extreme droughts and rising sea levels are becoming an increasingly reoccurring feature. To respond, a design process is required that seeks to integrate resiliency by building in the capacity to absorb the impacts of these disruptive events and adapt over time to further changes, while simultaneously being part of the solution to the problem itself.
This issue of AD is guest-edited by the interdisciplinary team at Stevens Institute of Technology who developed the winning entry for the 2015 US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition, the SU+RE House. While particular focus is paid to this student designed and built prototype home, the publication also provides a broader discussion of the value of design-build as a model for tackling the issue of integrating sustainability and resilience, and what changes are required across education, policy, practice and industry for widespread implementation.
Contributors include: Bronwyn Barry, Michael Bruno, Alex Carpenter, Adam Cohen, Ann Holtzman, Ken Levenson, Brady Peters, Terri Peters, Karin Stieldorf, Alex Washburn, Claire Weisz, and Graham Wright.
Featured architects: 3XN/GXN, FXFOWLE Architects, Local Office Landscape Architecture (LOLA), Lateral Office, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Snohetta, Structures Design Build, and WXY Studio.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Guest-Editors
- Introduction: Climate Change is the New Gravity
- Unsustainability and the Architecture of Efficiency
- Resilient Design: 'Systems Thinking' as a Response to Climate Change
- Global Responses to Local Conditions: Sustainability and Resilience are Nowhere the Same
- ‘Global Warming is Real’: Superstorm Sandy, Stevens and the SU+RE House
- High-Performance Enclosures: Designing for Comfort, Durability and Sustainability
- Practical Resilience: Low-Tech Plug-and-Play Innovation in the SU+RE House
- SU+RE Power: Energy Independence and the Sustainable Resilient Sun
- Modelling to Drive Design: Honing the SU+RE House through Performance Simulations
- Defining Environments: Understanding Architectural Performance through Modelling, Simulation and Visualisation
- Data Buildings: Sensor Feedback in Sustainable Design Workflows
- Building Physics, Design, and the Collaborative Build: Sustainability and Resilience in Architectural Education
- Climate Change and the Bottom Line: Delivering Sustainable Buildings at Market Rate
- Energy and Design Criticism: Is It Time for a New Measure of Beauty?
- The Design of Public Policy: Sustainability and Resilience at the City Scale
- Counterpoint: Aim High Pressing for a Radical and Global Approach to Sustainable Design
- Contributors
- ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: SU+RE: Sustainable + Resilient Design Systems
- What is Architectural Design?
- ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: FORTHCOMING AD TITLES
- EULA