Sustainablity
After looking up Bruno Stagno, I really like how he takes into account how all the natural elements will begin to affect the building and in the end use all the natural elements to the designs benefit to create a sustainable building. It seems all the buildings he has designed, are designed very specifically for that place which I think makes his architecture successful. He incorporates natural and low-tech resources in his designs rather than using the high-tech elements that are now available to paste onto the building to then make it 'sustainable'. Theres just something refreshing about architecture that utilizes the natural elements to make a building sustainable rather than architecture that incorporates all the brand new technology to help the building to be sustainable.
I think there is such an interesting contrast between the push for high-tech development of building systems and the push for simple, natural flowing buildings. Integrating the advances of technology into our buildings seems to be a hot topic in many areas of architecture, still there is the other extreme where people are intentionally going back to how things used to be designed. These buildings are designed purely based off of the surrounding natural elements.
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely nice to see a focus on natural systems in architecture today, but I think that it is more highly favored by architects than some other groups in the design/building process. Like we've seen in our studio project, its really hard for us architects to bring these systems from a qualitative diagram to a quantitative analysis. So instead of being able to say "it will work this well" we're stuck saying "it will help a bit" which is a pretty risky thing to say when buildings are costing millions of dollars.
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