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umm... Just a little bit history on our firm. We’re just two blocks down the street and we ‘re five years old this month.
We start in 2006 there are five of us on some cardboard boxes and some chairs and now there are over 100 of us and we started the firm completely dedicated to performance architecture.
So, I’m gonna talk about sustainable buildings today. we have cities in china that we were planning . we have small products ,we have a big products but I have brought big ones to show you.
umm... This picture umm... actually represents an idea in a book I read , called machine and garden by lio marts .
so , this morning Julian ask me , he said : are you an architect?
I said yeah… I said so , when you grown up , you play a lot with logos , didn’t you?
And I said actually a kind of did but, I didn’t have a lot of logos
, cause I have grown up in Jamaica and I grew up in Surrey island
and I never saw building over 11 stories until I was about 10 or 12 years old.
And this view kind of represents what I grew up with.
And lio marts talks about the idea of the pastor ideal
and nature and hearing the whistle blow
and realizing that technology was inventing that space
and it was never be the same.
When I was a kid I used to stand on hills and walk around
and look up at sky and saw these planes going on this place .
I always wonder where all those people going.
And when I was 11 I’ve move to toronto
and came here to go to the college and I’ve never went back.
umm... I want to talk to you about performance .
an igloo is probably the most basic architecture you can find that is purposely formed for it’s use.
It’s great for some habitant
, it’s great for some environment ,
it’s great for wind and sun ,
it’s even good for those passkey neighbors that stop by every once in a while umm…
but these are the big guys that cause the worst Carbon emissions in the world.
This building I designed when I was skidmoreised in merill about seven years ago, it’s called pearl river tower,
it’s in Guangzhou , china.It’s about 72 stories two million square fit.
It’s headquarters office building and was designed to be the world first net zero energy building
and basically it uses or creates much energy on annual bases that it uses.
umm... That’s the first time that ever done.
umm... The building was formed to move wind through it’s mechanical floors
you see those slots their turn byes in there that help generate power it’s got full of all takes on the sides.
So, it’s protected from east and west
and harvest the sun and wind from south
and it’s almost finished and open at the end of this year.
in 2006 we started on our own firm as I said just down here
and we’re enter to the competition for master headquarters which is in abu dhabi .
so, hundred and fifty five international entries and we found out later ,
after we had won that the reason we got invited ,
was because the assistant went on the web
and look for architects and look for a Adrian smith was Gordon gill architecture ,
and that’s how we invited.
Pure a luck she’s know who we were and directors did know who we were,
there were 155 entries and we have winning this .
and we have winning to designing the world first positive energy building .
this building actually creates more energy than it uses on annual bases.
it's 7 stories tall it has mm… thanks.
It’s... it's got the world’s largest full of all take on it’s roof
but three hundred thousand square fit .
umm... it uses an indigenous characteristic of wind canals
and wind towers to quite spaces like the one you see up on screen .
and it’s not just about the buildings,
the whole reasonly to do this,
it’s because we try to make people live better lifes
, be more comfortable and work better be more productive
and so , we actually have the ability in our office to major you
and your comfort in your seat in this space
and because of your dress whether you wearing t-shirts and shorts or a suit ,
we can kind a ask the mate , how long you’ve gonna be comfortable in that suit , in this temperature ?
umm... we create spaces with landscape architects .
that have different types in spices of fruit and plants for the people are living in the buildings
and after we did that we got asked to work on willis tower , which is serious tower right there on the corner
and the client came to us and ask us to design net zero hotel for them .
and we said well, that’s the interesting question but we’d rather look at the existing building
and what we found out was by looking at the energy saved in that building,
we can do a lot of good, in the city.
We took out 68 million kwh per year out that existing building
and to just kind a tell you , what that means ?,you see the slide stuff on the right side ,
that’s the equivalent our be a little conservative because to be honest ,
it’s really about two to four times that.
The third one down, is ten thousand single family homes in Chicago.
In another words, you take that energy out of that building
and you can take 10 thousand single family homes in Chicago, after grade, completely .
that means they don’t use any energy at all.
So, what we found out, was we could happened to buildings like this
and already exist ,harvest their power and shift it across town to somebody else.
We can do it through the day time and night time use,
because office buildings are active in a day,
homes are active in night , and we found that we could talk to yutori companies and come up with this idea,
of basically harvesting , what we already have and moving around in kind of intelligent ways.
We then took that idea and took it to entire city
and we load the script in our office for four hundred and fifty buildings in the loop to look at how they behaved simultaneously.
this is the little clip of the script and you guys do this all the time, for me this is new,
but basically for the first time,
we able to look at every building in the city simultaneously and one Scenarios for water energy electricity gas, anything you can imagine.
Different types of glass , different kinds of stone
and tell you how much carbon is gonna save,
what is gonna cost , what return investment was gonna be ,
and what each building, how each building effected the other
because we think that everything we do matters and effects everybody else.
So, we don’t look at things in a kind of silo for us to purlestic approach to solving problems
and what we found out was that we could increase the density of the city by 30%
and still produce carbon by 50% .
so, cities are good , your city is good and it’s getting better , we need to make it Healthier
and you can help with this, because around the world we see that 60 million people moving to urban centers every year, 60 million.
And they have to live somewhere and so , we have started our next study
on the relationship between different types of buildings and carbon.
So, what’s to do relationship between a super ,super tall building?,
I'll show you one on a second, what’s the super tall building?!
Something around 80 stories versus mid rise , low rise, houses suburban living,
watch the relationship in carbon footprint between all of those,
because we guys to get to do something like this all the time and I’m gonna leave you with this one,because I’m almost out of time.
But this is kingdom tower , I don’t know if you seen this before ,
but we really proud to tell you that we won the competition for the world tallest building about a year ago.
and umm.. Yeah… we really proud of that .
you know ,we’re just a bunch of guys and girls just down the street , have a lot of fun in 23rd floor
and it’s amazing that umm... these kids were come out of school , just like you and can completion these kinds of things.
umm... This building if you can imagine, is over a thousand meters tall,
that is fedex series and put another series on top of it, You be closed to high of the building.
It’s more than hundred and 60 stories.
Umm….. and what we did was, we look at the sufficiency and performance. Some terms about shape and it’s form
and we basically drew up an idea, for making the most efficient form We could for the super tall building
….mm I’m gonna skip a head so, I can show you the animation.
This is the view looking up,
that’s the view looking down,
and yes.. those are people outside on that deck,
don’t be afraid umm….. .
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and I just want to tell you , if I can go up to Jamaica and do that, almost anybody can do anything. Have a great day.
