The latest redesign of this blog seeks to align with the ongoing
2030 Palette: an organizational system developed by noted environmental
architect, Ed Mazria, which consolidates sustainable building features around five
specific classification levels. Within
this approach, a variety of rules of thumb currently exist at each scale of these
building taxonomies, which can have significant impact for sustainable
skyscrapers seeking to integrate into a larger realm. Each can also be better dissected and
explored along these lines, better ‘dividing and conquering’ the current litany
of energy possibilities as they arise. As
such, the five major topics to be explored are as follows:
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5. Region:
skyscrapers can have particular connotations as to how a region can be planned,
directed, or perceived. Especially large
or tall buildings have immense sociological impacts, with considerable input
from a variety of stakeholders.
·
4. City/Town:
this category explores skyscrapers role as a cultural symbol, an economic
generator, and how the typology can effect localized growth or
developments. Due to their size and
scale, skyscrapers have considerable impact to how the world views a particular
locale. Many of these facets can have
substantial impacts to their areas far after a skyscraper is built, or even conceived.
·
3. District:
examines the local connections to a neighborhood a building can have: can
it reduce energy use for neighboring buildings?
Can it generate food, or increase/decrease congestion? Due to the density of skyscrapers, they have
a major impact upon their surrounding neighborhood, and traffic patterns?
·
2. Site: It
is of little surprise that site considerations continue to have the largest
impact on building energy use. From how
a building is entered, to what physical flows the building encourages or reacts
against, organization considerations for a building that can reduce energy use
(what energy potentials are available on site?). Poor design can increase energy
use, or hamper regional efforts.
·
1. Building:
this component will likely be the easiest section to map out, as singular
buildings are the meat and potatoes of architectural training and
discussion. Initially, this topic will
center around the following sections:
- Energy Use Intensity
- Building Users / User
energy requirement
- Building waste
- Embodied Energy and
Embodied Carbon
- Environmental Product
Declarations, and perhaps a better inclusion into the other topics
- Building Waste
- Façade Systems
- Engineering Systems
- MEP Systems
- Facade
- Structural Considerations
- Any other considerations
that can reduce energy, and save clients money
Overall, this “Skyscraper Palette” organizational system
will likely be a better facilitator of ideas to ourselves, and readers. While it is likely that this approach will
center more on single buildings (it is easier to study single buildings, after
all!!), we here at HeightsRising will
do our best to incorporate these and other features as they arise.
Adieu.
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