Q&A 3

1. It is important to think about how mixed-use programs can relate to each other and how these interactions can start to create design opportunities. Post at least one image that you have been working on for Project_03 such as your sustainable site plan, passive design diagrams, plans, sections, etc. Explain how your mixed-use program elements, the existing sustainable systems (your site's 'sense of place') and your net zero interventions had an affected on your zero-net design.

I used the mixed-use construction materials for my project 3 site. I believe that mixed-use developments for an urban development community in Dorchester is to help the sustainable project against infrastructure that opposes the design building development. It will help the residential E+ townhomes and E+ farmer’s market to develop a responsive environment that offers a variety of benefits that will improve home affordability, improve walkability, improve stronger neighborhoods. The mixed-use development will help the community gather, live, and work as it is a very popular material used today in the modern world, which promotes excellent benefits to our health.

Also, it helps us to have more walkable areas, and used it as a single-use development like the Farmer’s market uses single-mixed use materials for the vegetable stand an herbal stand. Mixed-use construction materials help conserved land resources, and especially this urban area is partly a wetland that supports present opportunities to have building efficiency, energy efficiency, and sustainable efficiency. Project 2 and project 3 site continuation includes mixed-use spaces and building materials that use a biophilic design such as the green roofs and the E+ farmer’s market that incorporates vertical landscape, and sustainable vegetable wooden stand. It shows good examples of mixed-use biophilic spaces. The purpose of using mixed-use ideas is to show that adaptability from the ancient Romans shows good examples of how we can fix our sustainable future by helping to lessen our pollution while it can promote good health.

2.Use another example of your Project_02 work and briefly explain how your design emulates the ideas from the readings in regard to a living, regenerative or adaptive building?

            I am showing an example of how I used a design that emulates Dorchester’s urban community to integrate living, regenerative, and adaptive building uses in my site. I used existing mixed-use building materials with a natural process of biophilic spaces in every single green building in Dorchester site. The E+ townhomes and the E+ farmer’s market has green roofing that follows the concept of biophilic spaces to avoid stormwater runoff and help rainwater infrastructure. This helps collect rainwater before it hits the ground that this place was abandoned for a long time before the construction began while this land was partly a wetland. Also, the urban landscape is designed to have a natural environment that is designed to have a front and back gardens cape with an adaptable green façade. The entire E+ green buildings are surrounded with trees that help the whole place not to makes wet ground for people not to experience stepping on wet polluted soil.

            The Dorchester E+ green building uses a regenerative building method and developed a mixed-use material to integrate a better urban density. The Dorchester E+ green buildings are well designed to cope an adaptive green environment that surrounds the green building project to restore a better natural hydrology. Even inside the building, the green roof also helps the residents to acquire a better air cycle and aim to help get rid of air pollution. The Dorchester E+ green building is well designed to be influenced on the neighboring Boston district that also collects and store storm water (collection) with an intensive green roof design was intended to also conserve water from the roof tops, so both regenerative building design is part of the owners (Urbanica Inc.) ideas to accept the adaptive building method to reuse building concretes to preserve a better way to improve the surrounding environmental community to show examples for the Ancient Roman philosophy of mixed-use philosophy.

Readings:

Living, Regenerative and Adaptive Building (Nugent, 2016)

Mixed Use Buildings: Make the most of your building (Urban Hub: People Shaping Cities,       2018)