If there’s anyone out there who thinks going green is just a trend and it’s so easy anyone who puts a bike rack at their office park can do it, think again. The 2030 Challenge is an architectural mission to make all buildings ‘carbon neutral’ by the year 2030. Architecture 2030, a non-profit, non-partisan and independent organization, was established in response to the global-warming crisis by New Mexico based architect Edward Mazria in 2002. The goal is at once simple and complicated: to achieve a dramatic reduction in the global-warming-causing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the Building Sector by changing the way buildings and developments are planned, designed and constructed.
To accomplish this, Architecture 2030 has issued The 2030 Challenge asking the global architecture and building community to adopt the following targets:
- All new buildings, developments and major renovations shall be designed to meet a fossil fuel, GHG-emitting, energy consumption performance standard of 50% of the regional (or country) average for that building type.
- At a minimum, an equal amount of existing building area shall be renovated annually to meet a fossil fuel, GHG-emitting, energy consumption performance standard of 50% of the regional (or country) average for that building type.
- The fossil fuel reduction standard for all new buildings shall be increased to:
- 60% in 2010
70% in 2015
80% in 2020
90% in 2025
Carbon-neutral in 2030 (using no fossil fuel GHG emitting energy to operate).
- 60% in 2010
REVERBERATE GRAPHIC DESIGN WINNERS
Face Color Winner:
Emily Bibler, Iowa State University
Face B+W Winner:
Jackie Fabella, Cal Poly Pomona
Body Winner:
Miles Courtney, Pratt Institute
http://www.architecture2030.org/
Yves Saint Laurent passed away yesterday. I had to take a moment to post about this famous design icon. “He was the first to put women in pants, the first to put them in tuxedos, the first to put them in masculine clothes, the first to employ black models,” he said. “He was audacious, he revolutionised the trade.”
He was the first ever living designer to have a show devoted to him at the Metropolitain Musuem of Art. On display is the iconic Mondrian dress.
http://www.ysl.com/US/en/index.aspx
Blob Wall is the creation of Greg Lynn and Machineous. It will soon be available for purchase through Panelite. Greg Lynn is an innovator in design and architecture often using film and automobiles as his inspiration. He is always on the edge of sci-fi with his fantastic creations. His latest work came from a collaboration with Andreas Froech, a partner at Machineous. The two LA based creative minds met their match since Machineous uses 6 axis robot arms, typically used to build cars, to make architectural fabrication. Lynn’s studio, FORM uses Blob software to create the modules and Panelite brought them to life as a “low-density, recyclable and impact-resistant polymer.” The modular units are unlike any other modular system in that the Blob Wall is composed of uniquely intersecting modules. No two Walls are alike. And while FORM first experimented with 5 initial prototypes – such as the igloo, s-curve, or u-curve – the possibilities within these forms are highly variable. Combine that with the expansive selection of colours, and the variations for Blob Wall are essentially infinite.
