WEEK 12
1.How would you describe the
meaning of sustainable design in the year 2050?
I describe the meaning of
sustainable design in the year 2050 by examining building design and
performance of biomimicry that biometric prediction within 2030. The United
States are planning to expand within 2030, and architects and engineers are
planning to use more available materials rather than cement and steel that
consumes almost 8% of construction came from these two materials. It is not
good to use because it will ruin our health. Also, the architects and engineers
are planning to use a better way while we are still researching new ideas on
expanding our knowledge in our life’s and designs with our natural environment
and solve our expansion challenges within 2030. All 3.85 billion years, and
there are many ways how we can manage our sustainable design within 2050 years
from now (2019). Biomimicry is still looking for a product to help the
architects and engineers on how to protect our planet earth for sustainability
in the future. Biomimetic also launch a Biomimicry 3.8 Institute to help us
improve our natural surroundings, and it is called innovation for conservation.
Biomimicry also provides new application and ideas for our sustainable design
strategy to get more. Plans for our knowledge, which can help us improve our
future goals in 2050. The Biomimicry Primer mention that they are helping
others to provide training, tools, and ethical leadership to launch for us for
our knowledge on how to save our futuristic plans for 2050, which they start a
program named biomimicry worldwide. According to Biomimicry Primer, “At
the university level, we have a growing list of faculty fellows integrating
biomimicry tools and concepts into their courses, biomimetic design studios, as
well as affiliate schools working towards offering biomimicry degrees to
design, architecture, biology, engineering, and business students. We’re also
committed to educating the next generation of biologists to sit at the design
table, filling a demand that is growing by leaps and bounds” (Benyus 9).
2.What are going to be the main
drivers for sustainability at that point in time, particularly for the city of
Boston?
The city of Boston main drivers for
using sustainability during 2040 is urbanization method, and the United States
is planning for expansion, which we are facing about 75% of the population by
2040. Today, we are facing an increase of 40% of the population in the United State,
which architects and engineers are planning to use wood replacement on building
our urbanization, and 3 % of steel and 5% of concrete was a custom material in
making our city. Almost 8% all together that came from concrete and steel that
are very harmful to others. Using wood for our new buildings are the best
prediction for others who want to use ecology method. Deforestation takes about
18% alone using our wood base buildings. It can cope with our new urbanization
when we are talking about using wood for our new buildings to have better
sustainability. For thus who do not want to follow deforestation or using wood
on making new buildings, there are ways to adapt the ancient technique of
dealing with cement. The architects and engineers who live in the city of
Boston can use a method of adaptation to think more efficient that Passive Haus
is helping all of the Bostonians to solve U.S. building community. Adapting the
Roman architectural practices is a good idea, for which, the source of getting
cement is Portland cement also use a method of adaptation from the ancient
Roman method of using glue without applying heat. Ewing, A. said that, “Roman builders took advantage of chemistry,
and so does nature. While we consider CO2 to be a poison, nature uses it as
feedstock. Consider coral, which is made of calcium carbonate, also known as limestone.
A California-based company called Calera is using CO2 and water to make a lime
for use in a variety of products” (Ewing 2).
Readings:
A
Biomimicry Primer (Benyus, 2013)
Vision
2020 Building Design + Performance (Ewing, 2013)
Michael
Green: Why we should build wooden skyscrapers (TED Talk, 2013)
Mitchell Joachim: Don’t build your home, grow
it! (TED Talk, 2010)
Week 11
1. How do mixed-use developments contribute to more
sustainable communities?
Mixed-use
developments help us improve our sustainable communities by benefitting design
integration to commit sustainable urbanism by using a method of a better way
how to deal with our sustainable communities. Some say that as low as we can
determine walking throughout the neighborhood and using mixed-use context can
enhance the high performance of building and high performance of
infrastructure. According to Farr, “Neighborhoods are compact,
pedestrian-friendly, and mixed-use” (42). Mixed developments help sustainable
communities to have a better expectation with our daily needs by living a
better way and commenting. Suburban mixed development improved their
environmentally friendly techniques in using mixed-use by using linking mass
transpiration, walkable neighborhood, mixed-use, and a common housing. Farr
said, “a genuine neighborhood is “compact, pedestrian-friendly, and mixed-used,
According to the charter of Congress for the new urbanism. That said, we often
pressed to specify the exact parameter of the ideal neighborhood” (127).
2. How does sustainable urbanism improve the quality of
life?
The
quality of life improved all of us by sustainable urbanism w the real set of
quality of life means urbanism, which people have to support their communities
to have a better livelihood with easy design commuting and transit. The
American lifestyle lives to have a better sustainable lifestyle that is
healthier, happier, and independent. It improves health and prosperity for
themselves and their families. (1) The structures of sustainable urbanism have
a core value of compactness, and biophilia as it signifies for a healthier
lifestyle. (2) structural elements are also one of the definition ns of quality
of life in sustainable urbanism that is: neighborhood; compact; pedestrian
friendly; mixed use. (3) Also, districts help us understand its part of our
quality of life in sustainable urbanism, and also, known as compact,
pedestrian-friendly, and single use. (4) Lastly, corridors help us imagine that
quality of life has to connect with our neighbors and districts.
3. What is an example of sustainable urbanism in Boston?
The best example of sustainable in
Boston is the North End Neighborhood (131) that showed a sizeable (great)
sustainable neighborhood that uses mix dwelling types who followed sustainable
urbanism as they reflect regional customs, climates, and condition of the site.
Boston’s sustainability methods used a method of mix uses that believed that
can reduce the number of trips of automobiles. Boston’s North End neighborhood
(131) showed one of the good examples of individual sites of sustainable parks,
greens, squares, plaza, and playgrounds where it integrates a good structural
element, compact, pedestrian-friendly, and mixed-use. The Boston’s North End Neighborhood
(131) has a completeness of sustainable urbanism who followed the potential
safety from the locals and visitors to have walkability and have a better
environmental impact.
Readings:
Sustainable
Urbanism (Farr, 2008): Pages 41-59, 103-107, 113-119, 125-131
BAC_TSM2001_WEEK_11_2019.pdf
What is the connection between building occupant satisfaction and sustainability? What are some examples of sustainable design strategies that lead to higher occupant satisfaction and also contribute to resource savings?
The customer's
satisfaction with sustainable design strategies became one contribution for
customers to support a green building design. I believe there are many things
to consider why designers advice building owners to go to sustainability. One
thing that needs to put in mind is that it considers is that it consumes less
energy, and it helps them serve many utility bills. The energy efficiency goals
for LEED rating materials fit in the energy goals that benefit, and it is not
critical analyzing building performance. Net zero building capability while
working on a new building sets newly approach to operate better, and the result
is that the prediction has less infrastructure toward net-zero energy system.
The benefits to a new design process of net-zero energy became more accessible
to predict the balancing method of the new building design project. LEED also
credits so applicable for those who go sustainability. LEED credits help
contribute resources savings. UC and USC campuses made every building owner save
more, and they aim accurate design modeling for a sustainable design project
that they also get advice from the US Green Building for the right design
project and energy saving predictions. Traditional building standard and codes
(non-net zero energy) became a problem presented design process because energy
use is less performed.
Why are benchmarks/targets critical
for analyzing actual building performance data?
The good thing
about benchmarking targets critical that analyze actual building performance
because the process targets are setting, modeling, and also the performance of
the traditional building. The approach of benchmarking traditional structure
provides insight into any particular evaluation and implementation of the
design project. Benchmarking a traditional building is a new design process
that targets net-zero energy with the common goals to check the performance of
the building (energy coding and standard). The UC Merced predicted that
benchmarking-based could be manageable for operating a building performance.
Net-zero energy modeling could be more natural to handle when designers use a
benchmarking-based energy budget. The design process is the more effective
design process, and it is good to use an analysis of the actual building
performance when focusing on benchmarking techniques based on performance data.
The design strategies are the focus on designing and using benchmarking
techniques method to get ready on net-zero energy efficiency 2020. The future
prediction of modeling on the design process a traditional building is an
ongoing uses benchmarking-based method is still being used with newer
technologies, and even adopt benchmarking-based tactics on new building design.
What are some of the limitations of
traditional energy models when it comes to predicting actual building
performance?
There are
limitations on how the design process of traditional energy modeling by the
designer. The designer always makes sure the building energy modeling can be
predicted on how the performance work and project. The designer also wants less
energy. The designer also recommends LEED rating products to be used as it
operates better and consumes less power as they follow the code and standards on
net-zero energy efficiency. There are two basic advice of the prediction for
the traditional building to function well enough. First, they plan to get more
ideas on analysis on how to design better codes and standards. Second, time
scheduling on codes and standards is one of the concepts of operating an
application of modeling a design project. One of the critical ideas of
predicting a traditional building performance is an energy performance of
energy goal settings is infrastructure. LEED rating became one of the benefits
to any design process that design modeling improves and developed energy as the
main component for energy goals.
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