Understanding Passivhaus - The Simple Guide to Passivhaus Detailing and Design
Understanding Passivhaus by Emma Walshaw of First In Architecture is a brief, clear, and complete guide to Passivhaus homes. Fundamental principles for all aspects of the enclosure are elegantly introduced and illustrated before 8 common Passivhaus building assemblies are presented and showcased in case studies.
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Residential exterior, rendered in Lumion 11
When it comes to architectural rendering software, Lumion makes the process of rendering an integral part of the architect's craft; it emboldens design and rendering workflows and inspires creativity. With the release of Lumion 11, realizing your design vision has never been easier. Using the new orthographic view feature, you can reduce the effort needed to create visually interesting plan and section views with your own unique twist. With animated phasing, you can show how the parts of your building connect and interact, choreographing a dialogue with the viewer.
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Speakers: Tatiana Bilbao, Founder and Director, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio; Carolina Sepúlveda, Chilean architect & researcher, MDes ADPD '20 Presented by: Diane E. Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Harvard University; Moderated by: Malkit Shoshan, Design, and the Public Domain Area Head, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Today more than ever, architects are facing high expectations for the design, function and performance of a project. Careful building design takes the regional influences of climate into account, material origin, perhaps cultural building traditions. These are ways to lower the ecological footprint. But what do architects do to further enhance the building performance? That is an exciting element to explore. Finding out that today digital technologies are implemented in buildings in every region of the world is an interesting fact to discover!
Modular construction by Maisons Laprise, Quebec, Canada. Image Courtesy of QWEB
Proven and effective construction methods are not static, instead they're always improving. In Quebec, Canada, light wood frame and modular manufacturers are always pushing the limits of innovation. Their craft is now linked to building systems on a bold scale with offsite light wood frame construction.
The SEKISUI HOUSE - KUMA LAB is proud to launch our public program, lecture series. 2020 Fall Lecture series will be focusing on “Nature”. We will invite not only architects but also artists and philosophers, professionals from various fields. We hope to investigate "Nature" from multiple perspectives and reconsider our surrounding living environment and values. All fall 2020 lectures will be delivered via Zoom Webinar at 6 pm on Wednesdays (JST) unless otherwise noted.
Architects, not Architecture is turning five and we are celebrating it with a series of virtual events around the world. Welcome to our Virtual World Tour!
Design Museum Everywhere Workplace Innovation Summit
From December 7-11, 2020, Design Museum is set to host their first-ever virtual Workplace Innovation Summit. Packed with visionary speakers across a variety of disciplines, the 2020 Workplace Innovation Summit will harness the knowledge and star power of today's industry leaders with impactful conversations related to current and post-COVID workplace strategies and innovations. Normally held in a one-day, in-person format, the virtual expo will now host five days of curated content, interactive sessions, inspiring workshops, and even live podcast recordings.
Amplified by current changes in the workplace and work methods, technology improvements are proving that digital updates deliver measurable value. The AEC industry, is currently making strong shifts in ways of working. The industry is looking at intelligent construction management solutions that can monitor and improve productivity, and reduce the turnaround time of projects.
As the domain where different vectors of the current climate crisis meet and interact, and where conflicts around its regulation are emerging, the atmosphere also produces multiple localities where these transformations can be observed and understood—and sites of mediation can be imagined. Far from being understood in all of its complexity, the atmosphere continues to elude our ability to model its dynamics—or to compute future scenarios.
This year, the Energy Strategies Summit is offering both physical and virtual meeting places for the energy industry. The Energy Strategies Summit will take place in a hybrid format, which will combine the best of a traditional conference at the Order of Engineers and Architects of Beirut with a simultaneous digital conference platform. During the event, a virtual exhibition promoting energy and power projects, financial services and instruments, innovative technologies in energy, green buildings, architects, associations and institutions, will be available on a dedicated platform. Energy Strategies Summit aims at providing all those interested with insights on possible approaches and actual projects for them to draw a better image of their future steps.
Bauhaus Campus 2021 Architecture Competition for Students Poster
After putting his career as an architect on hold to fight the first world war between 1914 and 1918, Walter Gropius sensed the world needed a radical change, a change in which arts and architecture would play a fundamental role.
The Face of Renovation is an open international contest for development of architectural solution concepts of buildings under the program of housing stock renovation in Moscow.
Norwich University’s School of Architecture+Art launched a competition for high school students to design an outdoor classroom with thousands of scholarship dollars as prizes.
