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Assessing Occupant Comfort In An Iconic Sustainable Education Building, Rick Best, Brian Purdey
Assessing Occupant Comfort In An Iconic Sustainable Education Building, Rick Best, Brian Purdey
Rick Best
The building that houses the Mirvac School of Sustainable Development at Bond University is the first educational building to achieve a six Green Star rating from the Green Building Council of Australia. It has won numerous awards since opening in August 2008 including being judged the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) Sustainable Building of 2009. After more than two years in use a post-occupancy evaluation study was carried out to assess the performance of the building from the viewpoint of the users; both resident staff and transient students. Results for factors such as lighting, thermal comfort, noise and air …
Divergence: Creating A Closed-Loop Mobile Seaworthy Civilization, Marcus Lafond
Divergence: Creating A Closed-Loop Mobile Seaworthy Civilization, Marcus Lafond
Marcus Lafond
Today there are more cities localized on our coastlines than ever before. Unfortunately, this fact poses an immediate danger due to the rising tides of our oceans. Together with the increase in global population and coastal erosion, the world will increasingly become a more difficult place to live. With our overcrowding cities, mercurial changes in weather and over three quarters of the earth's surface being uninhabited oceans; we need cities that are mobile, seaworthy and capable of avoiding natural disasters. Thus, by creating these types of cities, architects will lead the way to ensure the safety of the public and …
Social Architecture And The Law: Law, Through The Lens Of Religion, Lorin Geitner
Social Architecture And The Law: Law, Through The Lens Of Religion, Lorin Geitner
Lorin C. Geitner
How can we account for the differing popular images of attorney in variouscountries? One way of doing so may be to bring a paradigm developed in religious studies toexamine the most publically accessible and prototypical venue for attorneys, the courtroom.Specifically, applying the model of critical spatial studies developed by Lefebvre and Soja inorder to examine religious ritual space to bear on a different kind of ritual space, the courtroom,its structure, organization, and use may illuminate both societal understandings of how the lawrelates to the citizen, but also inform the differing perception and status of lawyers in the United States, Britain, …
Mira/Look Exhibition, Joseph Krupczynski, Inga Anger, Zachary Smith, Fleur Downey, Tobias Bernecker, Karen Rose, Christopher Velardi, Matthew Emond, Taejun James Kim, Arcangel Santiago
Mira/Look Exhibition, Joseph Krupczynski, Inga Anger, Zachary Smith, Fleur Downey, Tobias Bernecker, Karen Rose, Christopher Velardi, Matthew Emond, Taejun James Kim, Arcangel Santiago
Tobias Bernecker
This exhibition produced for the Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke and displayed in September and October of 2008, highlights community planning and design initiatives that promote cultural expression and community visions for Holyoke. The designs were created by Professor Joseph Krupczynski and students from the Architecture + Design program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.