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Design Premises

AIA Architecture and the City Festival Architecture of Consequence September 1, 2011 Edward Church Institute for Environmental Entrepreneurship Berkeley, California, USA. Design Premises. Trends – things are as now, but more so

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Design Premises

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  1. AIA Architecture and the City FestivalArchitecture of ConsequenceSeptember 1, 2011Edward ChurchInstitute forEnvironmental EntrepreneurshipBerkeley, California, USA

  2. Design Premises • Trends – things are as now, but more so • Disruption – things will change dramatically due to external forces • Disruptive Trends – climate change and population shifts will change what is now, so we project the “trends of disruption” • Desired Future – where do we WANT the trends of disruption to lead us?

  3. Designing Cities for a Resource-Impinged World • Value-neutral approach • Iwamoto-Scott: city re-built around energy and water technologies • Van Bergen Kolpa: farm/park built around culturally-diverse food production

  4. Illustration • Van Bergen Kolpa Proposal

  5. 170 nationalities’ desires for culturally-appropriate food, locally produced • What does one eat? • “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” – Michael Pollan • Rates of obesity and diabetes high in U.S. and growing worldwide

  6. For one type of consumer

  7. “But with 170 nationalities the contemporary urban consumer became more diverse.”

  8. And so did its choice of food.

  9. What are the wants and needs of consumers?

  10. “We’ve been instructed to conduct a separate set of tests for American passengers.”

  11. IllustrationIwamoto-Scott ProposalDesign for technologicalimprovements 100 years in the future

  12. Architectural Design Competition1808 • Where do we put the horses? • Futuristic Design for 1908

  13. 4 story horse stable, Buffalo, NY built c. 1893; London tenant c. 1930

  14. Horses vs. Cars • Public health • Effluent on the ground produced by one mode of transportation, horses vs. effluent dispersed into the infinite ocean of air by the newer, cleaner mode, cars

  15. Architectural Design Competition2008 • Futuristic Design for 2108 • Where do we put the (hydrogen-powered) cars? • Underground. Or…

  16. They fly…

  17. But they do things we are accustomed to.

  18. Walk-up Mc D’s, Monmartre, Paris

  19. Framework for Analysis Now and in the Future:Production • Everything that is produced, whether it is buildings, cars, farms, or green house gas, is an interaction of • Capital Investment • Natural Resources • Human Labor

  20. Framework for Analysis Now and in the Future:Consumption • Wants vs. needs • Both are delimited by what is available • Both are conditioned by culture

  21. Designing Cities for aResource-Impinged World • What is the role of Architecture? • Which other disciplines must it work with? • How does it relate to social values: follow, extend, or lead? • How can it avoid being out-dated?

  22. Architects on a trans-disciplinary Team

  23. Thanks! • www.enviroinstitute.org • church@enviroinstitute.org

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