Sustaining the local: An alternative approach to sustainable design

• Autores: Terri Peters
• Localización: Architectural design, ISSN 0003-8504, Nº. 2, 2015, págs. 136-141
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • By implication, the developmentof experimental architecture that is responsive to the local context can have sustainable benefits for the natural environment and adjacent community. Here, architect and writer Terri Peters, who has a PhD in sustainable building transformation, picks up the gauntlet and asks how the notion of localness might be able to advance sustainable design. Focusing on a qualitative rather than quantitative interpretation of sustainability, she describes projects by New York-based studio The Living, the Chinese architect Li Xiaodong and Toronto architects Superkül, highlighting the importance of ecology, social sustainability and context-specific design in the treatment of their work.