Ecological Design Fundamentals
What is Ecological Design? Evolving, responsive structure
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Beyond utilizing technologies like solar panels and wind turbines, ecological design processes embrace seasonal and environmental changes, planning and designing to meet them halfway. Projects have an evolving, informal structure, and take direction from nature herself. Rather than install bike racks to gain LEED points, ecologically designed architecture is structured, from the very core, to respond to change and challenges of the local environment in which it stands.
Because of its 9,ooo-25,000 ft altitude, it is also very, very sunny. The building´s design, which revolved around natural lighting and heating techniques for the local conditions, is another reason to consider the campus a prime example of ecological design.
Thom Mayne, principle architect, stresses the importance of the building’s functionality.
What is Ecological Design? Comprehensive resource, waste and space management
Thom Mayne’s 41 Cooper Square building is already a contemporary icon, its graceful façade, curving profile featured in countless magazines, websites, and even a television commercial. The first academic building in New York City to achieve the organizations highest level of certification, LEED Platinum.
Thom Mayne’s Cooper Square First New York LEED Academic Building
Federal Building architect Thom Mayne discusses his research-intensive process, the integration of sustainability and good design, and barely covers his disdain for the "tacking-on" of green features that is so often demanded by the LEED system.
I also think the LEED point system is overladen in the construction phase versus lifetime energy consumption and secondary effects.
New visions for urban consumption, waste, and space management are needed. To be clear, urbanism is not the problem we’re facing- the current design of urban spaces is. Built to serve the automobile, urban areas, as they exist today, promote the existence of an artificial boundary between the “city” and “nature” that have made it easy for urbanites to ignore their impressive impact on outside communities.
Teerform ONE’s ecological design combines biological and technological potential to produce smart models for developments that reach far beyond zero-carbon targets.
Radical envisioning of the future of cities is what gave us technologies like the elevator, which Joachim sites as one of the most influential technologies for architecture and urban planning.
Metropolitan Green Belt
The Metropolitan Green Belt was the first such area of protected open land to be mooted in the United Kingdom, by the Greater London Regional Planning Committee in 1935. The Green Belt (London and Home Counties) Act 1938 permitted local authorities around London to purchase land to be protected as open space and enter into covenants with landowners that open spaces would not be given over to development.
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