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Sustaining the Local: An Alternative Approach to Sustainable Design
By implication, the developmentof experimental architecture that is responsive to the local context can have sustainable benefits for the natural environment and adjacent community. Here, architect and writer Terri Peters, who has a PhD in sustainable building transformation, picks up the gauntlet and asks how the notion of localness might be able to advance sustainable design. Focusing on a qualitative rather than quantitative interpretation of sustainability, she describes projects by New York‐based studio The Living, the Chinese architect Li Xiaodong and Toronto architects Superkül, highlighting the importance of ecology, social sustainability and context‐specific design in the treatment of their work.
Sustaining the Local: An Alternative Approach to Sustainable Design
By implication, the developmentof experimental architecture that is responsive to the local context can have sustainable benefits for the natural environment and adjacent community. Here, architect and writer Terri Peters, who has a PhD in sustainable building transformation, picks up the gauntlet and asks how the notion of localness might be able to advance sustainable design. Focusing on a qualitative rather than quantitative interpretation of sustainability, she describes projects by New York‐based studio The Living, the Chinese architect Li Xiaodong and Toronto architects Superkül, highlighting the importance of ecology, social sustainability and context‐specific design in the treatment of their work.
Sustaining the Local: An Alternative Approach to Sustainable Design
Peters, Terri (author)
Architectural Design ; 85 ; 136-141
2015-03-01
6 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Canada , European Active House programme , Simon Guy , Queens Community Gardens , Moriyama RAIC International Prize , Steven A Moore , Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) , Beijing , Brockport Home Systems , Arup , Young Architects Program , The Living , Autodesk , Toronto , Modernist , Active House , Michael Hensel , Venice Architecture Biennale , Li Xiaodong , VELUX , MoMA PS1 , Stig L Andersson , BREEAM , Christian Hermansen Cordua , China , Great Gulf Group , Ontario , Superköl , Thorold , Jiaojiehe , Hy‐Fi , New York , Great Gulf Active House , LEED , Liyuan Library , David Benjamin , Build It Green
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