Sustainable by design

Sustainable by design

Design affects everything. Every component, every product, every building. This stream addressed itself to a wide variety of design issues, each one of them to do with an aspect of sustainability, and each searching for the stimulating, the inspirational and the challenging.

All sessions took place in the Thames Room, sponsored by WRAP      

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10.30 – 12.00

Low tech, old tech, eco tech

Smart and super green materials on the one hand; on the other, natural and traditional materials can just as well make most sense for designing tomorrow’s buildings. But is it only on a craft scale? Can we produce modern buildings with age old techniques?

chair: Zoe Laughlin, Artist and Materials Libarian, Kings College London
10.30 – 11.00 When the natural, traditional material is the smart one
  Zoe Laughlin, Artist and Materials Libarian, Kings College London
11.00 – 11.20 Building with Clay
 

James Bryce, Director of Operations, Clayworks
Katy Bryce, Director of Services, Clayworks
11.20 – 11.40 Modern building systems using 'traditional' materials
  Craig White, Founder and Director, White Design Associates Ltd
11.40 – 12.00 Achieving energy with green oak
  Andy Pitman, Manager – Construction Technical Services, TRADA


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12.30 – 14.00

Making living buildings: a new ‘materiality’

Architecture becomes the proving ground for a fascinating and mind-boggling mix of physics, chemistry and biology, where experimental science creates ways to make buildings live and respond organically to climate change. This is ‘green sky’ thinking par excellence.

chair: Dr Rachel Armstrong Author and Film Producer, Bartlett School of Architecture
12.30 – 13.00 Bio technology in architecture: against biological formalism
  Dr Rachel Armstrong, Author and Film Producer, Bartlett School of Architecture
13.00 – 13.20 The revolution is to not build buildings: surreal synthetic ecologies
  Neil Spiller, Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory, Bartlett School of Architecture
13.20 – 13.40 Unconventional Computing with Living Cells
  Soichiro Tsuda, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow, University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE Bristol)
13.40 – 14.00 Fabricating nature digitally
  Turlif Vilbrandt, Founder and Board Officer, Uformia Norway


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14.15 – 15.45

Building a new aesthetic with local materials, planning and procurement

Small scale domestic architecture allows the eco-designer to push the envelope, but a doctrinaire approach to sustainable architecture must take into account the accessibility of materials, and the affect on the design of the planning process.

chair: Richard Hawkes, Director, Hawkes Architecture
           Jae Mather, Director, Carbon Free Group
14.15 – 14.45 Case study: Crossway, an eco house in Kent
  Richard Hawkes, Director, Hawkes Architecture
14.45 – 15.05 Green procurement: how to make an efficient market for sustainable materials
  Jae Mather, Director, Carbon Free Group
15.05 – 15.25 Planning goes eco – exploit the loopholes or take it head on?
 

Marion Payne, Planning Consultant
15.25 – 15.45 Modular building with straw bales
  Craig White, Founder and Director, White Design Associates Ltd


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