You escape by stopping fighting, doing something different to what feels like the right and obvious thing; and by exposing the plant to light..
It’s a good example of the improvements made viable with prototyping, which aren’t achievable when a project is live on-site for the first time.This transformational process of on-going refinement and progress isn’t possible in traditional construction, where every building is bespoke.
It’s yet another benefit of a Platform construction approach, which helps us to achieve greater sustainability in design..Addressing the climate emergency in construction.Currently contributing 39% of global carbon emissions, there can be no doubt that the construction industry has a serious and urgent role to play in addressing the climate crisis.
The starting point is industry collaboration — a united focus on raising the industry’s understanding, knowledge and skills in relation to sustainable building.We need to be investing in colleges and universities, educating our young people and making sure they get the right training from the outset.
We must have an industry-wide effort, focused on sustainability in design, one where we can all contribute, rather than having a few people in senior positions trying to force the issue.. We need to do more with passive design, whether it be a fully certified, Passivhaus approach, or simply using sustainable design features more generally from the start through to completion: early design stages, technical design, procurement and construction.
Nothing lost along the way.Visual language is key to articulating this.
For instance, a client might express that they need a space to do.X process in, which needs to be near a space that can handle Y process, which needs to be next to something else essential but perhaps seemingly unrelated, and they all need to have good light and be highly adaptable.
For this, a diagram to spatially explore how this might work is a key tool for communication and design.Once all the stakeholders can understand and visualise the connections, designing a physical space unfolds.
(Editor: Modern Consoles)