Bill Marston LEED AP, GA Certif (bill_marston)
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Ever since I was 7 years old I have seen god IS nature - the rocks, trees, skies, seas. I knew from that period that I would become an architect even though I never heard the word or knew what it was until I was in high school.
To my way of thinking this is what the art of buildings is at its root - everything from structure to skin, intakes and exhausts, etc. all directly analogous to a living being. It is the design team's job to create a beautiful butterfly from a programme and a set of principles. It is the tools that we need to recreate - instead of the T-square and French curve with pencil and paper or 3D/4D smart object-oriented CAD, we need tools with which we can wrap a space in an energy-gathering or energy-shedding material, and where the software is smart enough to know enough about its energy & moisture flows to provide on-the-spot feedback in the context of those materials & users of the building being designed, over time.
Those materials should be addressable by the designer at various levels. An example might be that skin - I may want to address its scalability, its ability to span or to support weight of a live load, or I may need to view its appearance as the angle of the sunlight falling on it changes over a day, or over a year. As human beings we do not want to build a design and then wait for a year or two in order to see how the whole performs. Thus I also need to design for the life of the material and for ways the building use inevitably changes over time. So I would need a hierarchy of characteristics of various component assemblies, and would know which aspects have the shortest lives. An owner-user must be prepared to make selections as a part of the design team, and their expectation of the amount & pattern of care a design requires would be a consideration affecting choices during design.
And that's just for starters...
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I look forward to contact with others with interest and/or expertise in living building design et al.
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