Sustaining the Local: An Alternative Approach to Sustainable Design. (March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Peters, Terri
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 85:Number 2(2015:Mar./Apr.)
• Page Start: 136
• Page End: 141
• Publication Date: 2015-03
• Subjects: Michael Hensel -- Christian Hermansen Cordua -- The Living -- Hy‐Fi -- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) -- MoMA PS1 -- New York -- Young Architects Program -- LEED -- BREEAM -- Venice Architecture Biennale -- Stig L Andersson -- Simon Guy -- Steven A Moore -- Liyuan Library -- Great Gulf Active House -- David Benjamin -- Build It Green -- Queens Community Gardens -- Arup -- Autodesk -- Li Xiaodong -- Beijing -- Jiaojiehe -- China -- Moriyama RAIC International Prize -- Modernist -- Active House -- Canada -- Toronto -- Superköl -- Thorold -- Ontario -- European Active House programme -- Brockport Home Systems -- Great Gulf Group -- VELUX; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.1889
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract : 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 writerTerri 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.