Recap of lecture on 09/26/12 - watch video here

Victoria Meyers: Robots, Energy, Weather

http://www.hanrahanmeyers.com/

general

urban and landscape design have taken over discussions of architecture

structural change in communication changes the way we see architecture

George Dyson - robots are taking over; ex. Google

internet and social media have reduced scale of the world

social networks, internet, and Google Earth have changed the concept of design

new international style will emerge from green design

weather - always look back to Vitruvius for siting of cities within climate

projects focus on porosity

Battery Park City North Neighborhood (BPC)

woven fabric, renewable energy and energy conservation as theme park

80% open green roofs

Bloomberg's PlanNYC has adopted some of BPC's sustainable strategies

start projects with isometric massing drawings, watercolors, physical models

green streets earn certification for water retention

heliostats on building to keep plants healthy

Pratt Pavilion

deformed rectangular cube between two industrial buildings

people enter building from green space, not from back (formerly trolley line)

public entry - old, rough walls still revealed

steel stair hand welded to reference high level of craft and design

inspired by Menashe Kadishman's "Suspended"

Holley Loft

wood rooms floated in white

glass boxes

anamorphic box

changing perception of white versus wood with closing of doors

Digital Water i-Pavilion: DWi-P

digital interaction - app with facade interaction

500 ft glass wall

composer Michael Schumacher wrote piece about water, which was transposed to become glass frit

app allows interaction with water - indication of how building facades could develop

complex is on track for LEED Platinum

encourage development of green diagrams

Won Dharma Center

designed for 0 carbon footprint

dynamic spiral vs. rectangle

minimal disturbance to site; formerly quarry - brownfield redevelopment

spirit vs. world

trees screened building - bleeding edge, oneness

final thoughts

on/in landscape

future: porous edge, materiality - reality

2006 - Designing with Light (book)

2013 - Shape of Sound (book) under development now while at UC