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Generating Sustainability concepts from Architectural Perspectives
Ahmed Z. Khan and Karen Allacker
A rchitecture and Sustainability A
hm ed Z. K
llacker
KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent/Brussels 9 789462 920880
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Generating Sustainability concepts from Architectural Perspectives
TABLE OF CONTENT
Ahmed Z. Khan and Karen Allacker
Part-1
1.0 Integrated Design in Theory and Practice: An Introduction
Karen Allacker and Ahmed Z. Khan
1.1 Enframed Perspectives: the Social Construction of Sustainability and the Canon of Architecture
Steven A. Moore
Philippe Samyn
1.3 Sustainable Architecture: Towards Integrated Strategies from urban design to Building component
Emmanuel Rey
1.4 Forward to the Past / Back to the Future – the Vernacular Prospect of Connected Architecture
Andy van den Dobbelsteen
1.5 Sustainable architecture: In search for a Multitude of Empathic Solutions
Griet Verbeeck
2.0 understand, Express, Measure, Design and urbanism: An Introduction to Integrated Design Perspectives
Ahmed Z. Khan and Karen Allacker
uNDERSTAND
2.1 Sustainable Architecture as Ecology: Defining shared systemic priorities of public health and social ethics in places
Anirban Adhya and Philip D. Plowright
2.2 Sustainability in Architecture: An Evolving view of Architecture quadrature
Sílvia Maria do Carmo Alves
2.3 Rethinking Sustainable Architecture: Beyond the Technological Approach
Ahlam Ammar Sharif
Michele Bonino, Davide Tommaso Ferrando and Zhang Li
2.5 Sustainability and the Toilet Siphon: Transcending Green Architecture.
Carlo Deregibus
EXPRESS
2.6 Strategies for Integrated and Sustainable Renovation: A stronger voice for Architectural Knowledge
Paula Femenias and Liane Thuvander
2.7 A Projet-based approach to Energy Quality as a path towards Sustainability
Geoffrey van Moeseke
2.8 Cultural Acceptance of Green Building Solutions: The Real Challenge
Muhammad Ashraf Shanjer
Grainne McGill and Greg Keeffe
MEASuRE
2.11 Assessment and Rating Tools: A guarantee for Sustainable Successes?
Bart Janssens
2.12 Tools for Sustainability not for the Market: A critical analysis of Environmental Assessment Tools
Adriano Magliocco and Maria Canepa
2.13 Comparative analysis of Building Sustainability Assessment Methods for Neighbourhoods
Damien Trigaux, Karen Allacker and Frank De Troyer
2.14 Life Cycle Energy Analysis and Building Design: A comprehensive Multi-scale Framework
André Stephan
2.15 Making the assessment right, or making the right assessment?
Michiel Ritzen, Ronald Rovers, Zeger Vroon and Chris Geurts
DESIGN
Sylvain De Bleeckere and Pieter Cloeckaert
147
153
161
169
177
183
191
199
214
2.0 understand, Express, Measure, Design and urbanism: An Introduction to Integrated Design Perspectives
Ahmed Z. Khan and Karen Allacker
uNDERSTAND
2.1 Sustainable Architecture as Ecology: Defining shared systemic priorities of public health and social ethics in places
Anirban Adhya and Philip D. Plowright
2.2 Sustainability in Architecture: An Evolving view of Architecture quadrature
Sílvia Maria do Carmo Alves
2.3 Rethinking Sustainable Architecture: Beyond the Technological Approach
Ahlam Ammar Sharif
Michele Bonino, Davide Tommaso Ferrando and Zhang Li
2.5 Sustainability and the Toilet Siphon: Transcending Green Architecture.
Carlo Deregibus
EXPRESS
2.6 Strategies for Integrated and Sustainable Renovation: A stronger voice for Architectural Knowledge
Paula Femenias and Liane Thuvander
2.7 A Projet-based approach to Energy Quality as a path towards Sustainability
Geoffrey van Moeseke
2.8 Cultural Acceptance of Green Building Solutions: The Real Challenge
Muhammad Ashraf Shanjer
Grainne McGill and Greg Keeffe
MEASuRE
2.11 Assessment and Rating Tools: A guarantee for Sustainable Successes?
Bart Janssens
2.12 Tools for Sustainability not for the Market: A critical analysis of Environmental Assessment Tools
Adriano Magliocco and Maria Canepa
2.13 Comparative analysis of Building Sustainability Assessment Methods for Neighbourhoods
Damien Trigaux, Karen Allacker and Frank De Troyer
2.14 Life Cycle Energy Analysis and Building Design: A comprehensive Multi-scale Framework
André Stephan
2.15 Making the assessment right, or making the right assessment?
Michiel Ritzen, Ronald Rovers, Zeger Vroon and Chris Geurts
DESIGN
Sylvain De Bleeckere and Pieter Cloeckaert
147
153
161
169
177
183
191
199
214
Ajla Aksamija
Jasmien Herssens, Marc Dujardin and Hubert Froyen
2.19 Critical perspectives on Sustainable Development: Reading the Sustainability Pillars in the Architectural Design Process of Wang Shu
Aliki-Myrto Perysinaki and Yann Nussaume
2.20 Sustainability through Design: Stakeholder-based Sustainability concepts for fringe-related Open Space Development
Elke Vanempten and Bruno De Meulder
uRBANISM
2.21 Integrative urban Development Concept: Horizontal and vertical approach to integrative and sustainable urban planning
Emilia Rönkkö
2.22 Biourbanism as new epistemological perspective between Science, Design and Nature
Antonio Caperna and Stefano Serafini
2.23 Sustainable Architecture, Public Space, and the importance of Place-making
Samra Mohsin Khan
2.24 The Pueblo house and the Mobile Home: J.B. Jackson’s Vernacular Landscape and the Sustainable Redevelopment of Suburbia
Bruno Notteboom
2.25 Water sensitive urban design: A speculative exercise for the Brussels Capital Region
Nadia Casabella and Catalina Codruta Dobre
221
231
237
243
255
263
269
279
287
Ahmed Z. Khan
3.1 Transition Into Eco-Effectiveness Is A Long-Term Process
Claudia Carreras, Katarzyna Jegorow, Michel Jeursen, Colm mac Aoidh, Sis Pillen and Marek Zahradnik
3.2 Learning Ecology: How to use and learn from Ecological Methods?
Angela Cichon, Sandro Govaert, Anna Martinez Falguera, Michala Lietavova, Marine Pirenne and Sandra Schippers
3.3 Scale and Journey in Retroactive design
Jacobo Abril Herrero, Eva Bóková, Sibel Gölemen, Katarzyna Kamierczak, Fien Rebry and Sam Verschoren
3.4 Social dimension of up-cycling: Engaging local community in brown field (re)development
Gemma Casellas, Monika Jaskulska, Zuzana Kneznikova, Jérémie Lichtfus, Marieke Senesael and Bram Van den Brande
3.5 Does an Architecture of Good Intentions really matter?
Beste Cakir, Ruben Jannses, Ivana Linderova, Emilie Otté, Silvia Iglesias Santos, Felix Schiettecatte and Mateusz Szymanowski
3.6 Imagining The New Collective
Katherine Seagrief , uuganjargal Batsuuri, Francisco Gómez, Minna Hulkkonen, Adam Lukaovi and Eva Meirsschaut
299
309
315
329
341
351
359
367
Ajla Aksamija
Jasmien Herssens, Marc Dujardin and Hubert Froyen
2.19 Critical perspectives on Sustainable Development: Reading the Sustainability Pillars in the Architectural Design Process of Wang Shu
Aliki-Myrto Perysinaki and Yann Nussaume
2.20 Sustainability through Design: Stakeholder-based Sustainability concepts for fringe-related Open Space Development
Elke Vanempten and Bruno De Meulder
uRBANISM
2.21 Integrative urban Development Concept: Horizontal and vertical approach to integrative and sustainable urban planning
Emilia Rönkkö
2.22 Biourbanism as new epistemological perspective between Science, Design and Nature
Antonio Caperna and Stefano Serafini
2.23 Sustainable Architecture, Public Space, and the importance of Place-making
Samra Mohsin Khan
2.24 The Pueblo house and the Mobile Home: J.B. Jackson’s Vernacular Landscape and the Sustainable Redevelopment of Suburbia
Bruno Notteboom
2.25 Water sensitive urban design: A speculative exercise for the Brussels Capital Region
Nadia Casabella and Catalina Codruta Dobre
221
231
237
243
255
263
269
279
287
Ahmed Z. Khan
3.1 Transition Into Eco-Effectiveness Is A Long-Term Process
Claudia Carreras, Katarzyna Jegorow, Michel Jeursen, Colm mac Aoidh, Sis Pillen and Marek Zahradnik
3.2 Learning Ecology: How to use and learn from Ecological Methods?
Angela Cichon, Sandro Govaert, Anna Martinez Falguera, Michala Lietavova, Marine Pirenne and Sandra Schippers
3.3 Scale and Journey in Retroactive design
Jacobo Abril Herrero, Eva Bóková, Sibel Gölemen, Katarzyna Kamierczak, Fien Rebry and Sam Verschoren
3.4 Social dimension of up-cycling: Engaging local community in brown field (re)development
Gemma Casellas, Monika Jaskulska, Zuzana Kneznikova, Jérémie Lichtfus, Marieke Senesael and Bram Van den Brande
3.5 Does an Architecture of Good Intentions really matter?
Beste Cakir, Ruben Jannses, Ivana Linderova, Emilie Otté, Silvia Iglesias Santos, Felix Schiettecatte and Mateusz Szymanowski
3.6 Imagining The New Collective
Katherine Seagrief , uuganjargal Batsuuri, Francisco Gómez, Minna Hulkkonen, Adam Lukaovi and Eva Meirsschaut
299
309
315
329
341
351
359
367
3.7 Responsive Design and Governance
Niels Decoster, Yuka Goto, Gema Hernandez Moral, Jagoda Krawczyk, Aditya Nur Pradhana, Michael Sanchez Alfaro and Joeri van Calster
3.8 Affordable Techniques By Design
Thierry Ghijsen, Georgios Ioannou, Barbora Latalova, Maciej Misiaszek, Ou ueno, Alexander Verbeke and Inse Vanneuville
3.9 Thinking in Shades
Simon Matthys, Mohamed Anes Benchaabane, Sato Wakiko, Stephanie Van Lembergen and
Chawapol Watcharasukarn
Johannes Alge, Charlotte Bolle, Nissim Geron, Thibaut Luyten, Charles-Antoine Pavy and Evangelos Stavrakakis
3.11 Sustainability consciousness by design
Alejandra Vázquez Luna, Giulia Cenere, Andreas Karamalikis, Jebbe Houttekier, Maros Somora and Sylvain Auxent
3.12 Fluid interpretation and flexibility in design
Amadé De Moyer, Marzieh Mazrouei Sebdani, Dimitri Meert, Lea Mittelberger, Hannes Monserez, Elze Schuurman and Indre Zuzeviciute
3.13 Participatory design: From doing less bad towards doing more good Stijn Wynants, Ayush Kalra, Thomas Heyndrickx, Lucas Vandeneede, Mauro Calderone, Martijn Verfaillie, Obieromah Tomi and Sam De Dobbeleer
CALL FOR PAPERS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to express our gratitude to all those people who have helped us in making this book project; to all those who contributed to this book through their work as authors, reviewed the contributions and provided valuable feed-back to the authors, talked over the many intellectual challenges in the conception of this book, provided useful comments for improv- ing the intellectual content of this book, assisted in editing, translating, proofreading, layout and design.
A few people among them need to be named in particular for their help and support: Griet Verbeeck, Anirban Adhiya, Abel Tablada, Arnaud Evrard, André Stephan, and Stefan Boeykens. Moreover, we would also like to thank in particular the contributors to the first part of this book: Steven A. Moore, Philippe Samyn, Emmanuel Rey, Andy van den Dobbelsteen, and again Griet Verbeeck.
Gudrun De Maeyer deserves a special mention: without her unwavering commitment, support, and encouragement this book project would not have been possible. The able assistance provided by Ben Robberechts in the graphic design and layout of the book speaks for itself. In general, we would like to thank all the students and staff of the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture who participated in this book project.
Above all we would like to thank our respective families for their support and love in pursuing our intellectual endeavours: Hanne and Ayla in the case of Ahmed; Joost, Daan, and Illo in the case of Karen.
We beg forgiveness of all those who have been with us in shaping our intellectual trajectories and whose names we have failed to mention.
Ahmed Z. Khan Karen Allacker
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Probably this book is about “Absorbing Sustainability”.
In the same way, Rem Koolhaas has been proposing “Absorbing Modernity 1914–2014” for the contribution of all the pavilions at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice.
I was somewhat surprised by the response of Brazil to Rem’s question.
Invited by the Bienal de São Paulo Foundation, diplomat and architecture critic André Aranha Corrêa do Lago agreed to curate the Brazilian contribution to the exhibition.
In explaining the pavilion’s intention, the curator stated the following: ‘Brazil is one of the countries that absorbed the precepts of modern architecture in the most interesting ways, and this helped strengthen the national identity. Unlike other countries, which, over the centuries, developed a typical national architecture— recognizable in caricatural form to other people—what we call “Brazilian architecture” is not a legacy of the past, but is actually modern.‘
The exhibition shows that Brazilian architecture has become this relevant thanks to a steady stream of important personalities, many of whom worked closely together: Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Roberto Burle Marx, Affonso Reidy, Lina Bo Bardi, Lelé (João Filgueiras Lima) and Paulo Mendes da Rocha.’ Together they form an impressive wealth of talent.
While today in most parts of the world modernity and modernism have a negative connotation in immediate relation to sustainability, André Aranha Corrêa do Lago tells a story in which modern architecture is pushed forward as a “Fundamental” in architecture. Modernity in Brazil is not just a concept or an understanding -at least according to the curator- but an amazingly efficient reality. This is an observation that can be made in time, and for which the meaning of the concept of modernity has barely changed.
Please allow me to try to push sustainability forward in the same manner as a “fundamental”. Is it too early to realize that the ideology of sustainability will ever evolve past the ‘fuss’ surrounding it today into an understanding that envelops a timeless zeitgeist from a historical perspective.
In that very same Venice, I took the picture below during the biennale.
Only recently the city started to consider water more as a traitor to its very existence, rather than an ally and a lifeline. Sustainability, in contrast, has grown from a threat and is now very often and very simply spontaneously transformed into an ally. Aren’t we losing track of something important then?
With thanks to Ahmed Z. Khan, Karen Allacker and all the contributors.
Enjoy the book.
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introduction
Ahmed Z. Khan and Karen Allacker
Architecture in its classical meaning is understood as a meaningful integration of the use (utilitas), stability (firmi- tas) and aesthetic beauty (venustas) through design for (re)making and (re)shaping of buildings, urban spaces and the built environment. Sustainability understood as a development paradigm aspires an integrative attitude towards the social, the economic and the environmental concerns to unfold development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” While fully acknowl- edging the diversity of perspectives in both architecture and sustainability discourses, our intention behind this book is to highlight and focus upon the integrative po- tential of architecture and investigate the ways in which it can contribute to the further development of the sustain- ability paradigm. With ‘architecture and sustainability’ in the title of our book, and not ‘sustainable architecture’, we also highlight the importance of the dialectics between the two as a more productive approach: What is the value of sustainability for architecture, and vice versa? in what ways the emergence of sustainability paradigm has influ- enced architecture? What are the architectural perspec- tives on sustainability? With these intentions, our objec- tive in this book is to present, and take stock of, recent developments in research, theory and practice of archi- tecture in response to the challenges of sustainability, and in the process make the case for a rethinking and de- velopment of integrated design for addressing the issues and challenges of the ecological age.
forty-four contributions by over a hundred authors from around the world are assembled in this book as chapters, which offer critical perspectives on architecture and sus- tainability relationships, and in the process, unfold inte- grative pathways. they have been organised into three parts, namely, integrated design in theory and practice, integrated design perspectives, and explorations through integrated design. each of these parts is provided with a detailed introduction, whereas this introduction expands on the intentions and main objectives behind the book, and in the process, presents critical perspectives on ar- chitecture and sustainability relationships.
in this introduction comprising six sections, we start with taking stock of the ways in which architecture and sus- tainability relationships are theorized and highlight the ways in which ‘sustainable architecture’ as a contested notion can be transcended. this is followed by an analysis of the globalised sustainability perspectives that renders sustainability as an evolving paradigm, and architectural perspectives on sustainability. in the latter, we present in more detail the ways in which environmental and social pillars have evolved as specific sensibilities in architec- tural thinking that in some ways prefigures the sustain- ability debate. the fourth section of this introduction aims to go beyond the pillars and makes the case for a rethink- ing of integrated design. in making this case, we present
four perspectives as integrative thematic attitudes: Archi- tecture as Place-making; rethinking Public Space and urbanism(s); research by design; Architecture as life- cycle thinking; and bioclimatism and integrated design. the fifth section, namely, generating Sustainability con- cepts from Architectural Perspectives – recaps the call for papers that this book (and in particular, its first two parts) is based upon, followed by the last section that summa- rizes the structure of the book.
1. Architecture And SuStAinAbility
While sustainability has become a mainstream concern in architectural theory and practice, the debate is frag- mented and the concept of sustainable architecture is increasingly contested. underpinning this debate are a proliferation of sustainability claims and a wide variety of conceptualizations. Although introduced formally as a new concept in 1987, some argue that Sustainability is not a new concern. they posit it was a necessity for cen- turies and after abandoning it due to humankind’s belief in unrestrainedly exploiting the earth’s carrying capacity, largely as a result of the industrial revolution, a concern for our planet has reemerged on an unparalleled scale.1 the diversity of perspectives and competing notions of sustainability is clearly discernable among the prolifer- ating environmental systems, ecologisms, and design approaches championed in practice as a revolutionary ‘change.’2 Sustainability is questioned as a concept that aims at “commodifying nature-society relationships”, at manufacturing scarcity in the “age of abundance”; it is problematized as a ‘hegemonic’ doctrine; it is analyzed as a “shift from mainstream modernism”; and qualified as an “integrative framework”. the proliferation of these com- peting notions of sustainability has led others to argue that sustainability has become an empty box and termed as an “empty signifier”; it seems that sustainability is what you make of it. in the contemporary discourses con- ceptualizing sustainability in architecture and urbanism, a wide variety of definitions exist.3 Whether building upon developments in other disciplines or mobilizing different philosophical frameworks, such conceptualizations show “a remarkably diverse constellation of ideas that defy simple categorization.”4 embedded within this constella- tion are a multitude of competing notions of sustainabil- ity in relation to the use, production, and consumption of space and resources in the built environment: some fo- cus on the performance aspect of systems (sustainability measurement indices, eco-labels, etc.); others qualify the ethical dimension as central to the sustainability debate; and yet others look at design, policy, technology and management as the proper arenas for dealing with sus- tainability in the built environment.5 it gives way to what canizaro and tanzer call the “self-doubt”, wherein “Some are reluctant to act on an incomplete understanding of the environment we study, others on the basis of only pro-
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visional theory. indeed, some argue that sustainability is not a goal at all, but merely a lens, a way of filtering and acting.” it comes as no surprise then if ‘sustainable’ ar- chitecture and urbanism is increasingly being acknowl- edged as a “contested concept.”6
More importantly, however, a consensus seems to be evolving in the recent architectural scholarship to focus more on ‘ways’ of conceptualizing ‘sustainability’ with a “pluralist imagination” rather than to search for a univer- sal one-size-fit-all type of sustainability.7 this is the point of departure in formulating our approach to transcend ‘sustainable architecture’ as a contested notion, where we start with acknowledging that “to foreclose contes- tation” is not an option.8 While adhering to the ‘pluralist imagination,’ as outlined in our article on ‘design for the ecological age’ in the Journal of Architectural education (JAe), we use the widening gap in the interaction between theory and practice as our main point of departure. for us, theory and practice are the two sides of the same coin, and their interaction provides a dynamic frame of refer- ence. focusing on their interaction is all the more impor- tant given the present trends that “isolate practice from research, and research from practice,” and in which some say that sustainability is a “mainstream concern” in de- sign thinking (theory), while others argue that contempo- rary architectural practice tends to “confuse, rather than reinforce, a progressive image of earth friendly architec- ture.”9 even in the more positivist accounts, a half-dozen competing “logics” are traceable, underlying sustainable practices.10 connected to this interaction is our second point of departure, which is a plea for inter- and trans-dis- ciplinarity; collaboration between architectural practice, academia, other disciplines, the construction and private industry, and the general public is “pivotal to address systemic issues” of sustainability.11 Such collaboration through productive dialogue is pivotal for moving towards a shared understanding of sustainability as a concep- tual model (paradigm). extending this dialogue,…
Ahmed Z. Khan and Karen Allacker
A rchitecture and Sustainability A
hm ed Z. K
llacker
KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent/Brussels 9 789462 920880
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Generating Sustainability concepts from Architectural Perspectives
TABLE OF CONTENT
Ahmed Z. Khan and Karen Allacker
Part-1
1.0 Integrated Design in Theory and Practice: An Introduction
Karen Allacker and Ahmed Z. Khan
1.1 Enframed Perspectives: the Social Construction of Sustainability and the Canon of Architecture
Steven A. Moore
Philippe Samyn
1.3 Sustainable Architecture: Towards Integrated Strategies from urban design to Building component
Emmanuel Rey
1.4 Forward to the Past / Back to the Future – the Vernacular Prospect of Connected Architecture
Andy van den Dobbelsteen
1.5 Sustainable architecture: In search for a Multitude of Empathic Solutions
Griet Verbeeck
2.0 understand, Express, Measure, Design and urbanism: An Introduction to Integrated Design Perspectives
Ahmed Z. Khan and Karen Allacker
uNDERSTAND
2.1 Sustainable Architecture as Ecology: Defining shared systemic priorities of public health and social ethics in places
Anirban Adhya and Philip D. Plowright
2.2 Sustainability in Architecture: An Evolving view of Architecture quadrature
Sílvia Maria do Carmo Alves
2.3 Rethinking Sustainable Architecture: Beyond the Technological Approach
Ahlam Ammar Sharif
Michele Bonino, Davide Tommaso Ferrando and Zhang Li
2.5 Sustainability and the Toilet Siphon: Transcending Green Architecture.
Carlo Deregibus
EXPRESS
2.6 Strategies for Integrated and Sustainable Renovation: A stronger voice for Architectural Knowledge
Paula Femenias and Liane Thuvander
2.7 A Projet-based approach to Energy Quality as a path towards Sustainability
Geoffrey van Moeseke
2.8 Cultural Acceptance of Green Building Solutions: The Real Challenge
Muhammad Ashraf Shanjer
Grainne McGill and Greg Keeffe
MEASuRE
2.11 Assessment and Rating Tools: A guarantee for Sustainable Successes?
Bart Janssens
2.12 Tools for Sustainability not for the Market: A critical analysis of Environmental Assessment Tools
Adriano Magliocco and Maria Canepa
2.13 Comparative analysis of Building Sustainability Assessment Methods for Neighbourhoods
Damien Trigaux, Karen Allacker and Frank De Troyer
2.14 Life Cycle Energy Analysis and Building Design: A comprehensive Multi-scale Framework
André Stephan
2.15 Making the assessment right, or making the right assessment?
Michiel Ritzen, Ronald Rovers, Zeger Vroon and Chris Geurts
DESIGN
Sylvain De Bleeckere and Pieter Cloeckaert
147
153
161
169
177
183
191
199
214
2.0 understand, Express, Measure, Design and urbanism: An Introduction to Integrated Design Perspectives
Ahmed Z. Khan and Karen Allacker
uNDERSTAND
2.1 Sustainable Architecture as Ecology: Defining shared systemic priorities of public health and social ethics in places
Anirban Adhya and Philip D. Plowright
2.2 Sustainability in Architecture: An Evolving view of Architecture quadrature
Sílvia Maria do Carmo Alves
2.3 Rethinking Sustainable Architecture: Beyond the Technological Approach
Ahlam Ammar Sharif
Michele Bonino, Davide Tommaso Ferrando and Zhang Li
2.5 Sustainability and the Toilet Siphon: Transcending Green Architecture.
Carlo Deregibus
EXPRESS
2.6 Strategies for Integrated and Sustainable Renovation: A stronger voice for Architectural Knowledge
Paula Femenias and Liane Thuvander
2.7 A Projet-based approach to Energy Quality as a path towards Sustainability
Geoffrey van Moeseke
2.8 Cultural Acceptance of Green Building Solutions: The Real Challenge
Muhammad Ashraf Shanjer
Grainne McGill and Greg Keeffe
MEASuRE
2.11 Assessment and Rating Tools: A guarantee for Sustainable Successes?
Bart Janssens
2.12 Tools for Sustainability not for the Market: A critical analysis of Environmental Assessment Tools
Adriano Magliocco and Maria Canepa
2.13 Comparative analysis of Building Sustainability Assessment Methods for Neighbourhoods
Damien Trigaux, Karen Allacker and Frank De Troyer
2.14 Life Cycle Energy Analysis and Building Design: A comprehensive Multi-scale Framework
André Stephan
2.15 Making the assessment right, or making the right assessment?
Michiel Ritzen, Ronald Rovers, Zeger Vroon and Chris Geurts
DESIGN
Sylvain De Bleeckere and Pieter Cloeckaert
147
153
161
169
177
183
191
199
214
Ajla Aksamija
Jasmien Herssens, Marc Dujardin and Hubert Froyen
2.19 Critical perspectives on Sustainable Development: Reading the Sustainability Pillars in the Architectural Design Process of Wang Shu
Aliki-Myrto Perysinaki and Yann Nussaume
2.20 Sustainability through Design: Stakeholder-based Sustainability concepts for fringe-related Open Space Development
Elke Vanempten and Bruno De Meulder
uRBANISM
2.21 Integrative urban Development Concept: Horizontal and vertical approach to integrative and sustainable urban planning
Emilia Rönkkö
2.22 Biourbanism as new epistemological perspective between Science, Design and Nature
Antonio Caperna and Stefano Serafini
2.23 Sustainable Architecture, Public Space, and the importance of Place-making
Samra Mohsin Khan
2.24 The Pueblo house and the Mobile Home: J.B. Jackson’s Vernacular Landscape and the Sustainable Redevelopment of Suburbia
Bruno Notteboom
2.25 Water sensitive urban design: A speculative exercise for the Brussels Capital Region
Nadia Casabella and Catalina Codruta Dobre
221
231
237
243
255
263
269
279
287
Ahmed Z. Khan
3.1 Transition Into Eco-Effectiveness Is A Long-Term Process
Claudia Carreras, Katarzyna Jegorow, Michel Jeursen, Colm mac Aoidh, Sis Pillen and Marek Zahradnik
3.2 Learning Ecology: How to use and learn from Ecological Methods?
Angela Cichon, Sandro Govaert, Anna Martinez Falguera, Michala Lietavova, Marine Pirenne and Sandra Schippers
3.3 Scale and Journey in Retroactive design
Jacobo Abril Herrero, Eva Bóková, Sibel Gölemen, Katarzyna Kamierczak, Fien Rebry and Sam Verschoren
3.4 Social dimension of up-cycling: Engaging local community in brown field (re)development
Gemma Casellas, Monika Jaskulska, Zuzana Kneznikova, Jérémie Lichtfus, Marieke Senesael and Bram Van den Brande
3.5 Does an Architecture of Good Intentions really matter?
Beste Cakir, Ruben Jannses, Ivana Linderova, Emilie Otté, Silvia Iglesias Santos, Felix Schiettecatte and Mateusz Szymanowski
3.6 Imagining The New Collective
Katherine Seagrief , uuganjargal Batsuuri, Francisco Gómez, Minna Hulkkonen, Adam Lukaovi and Eva Meirsschaut
299
309
315
329
341
351
359
367
Ajla Aksamija
Jasmien Herssens, Marc Dujardin and Hubert Froyen
2.19 Critical perspectives on Sustainable Development: Reading the Sustainability Pillars in the Architectural Design Process of Wang Shu
Aliki-Myrto Perysinaki and Yann Nussaume
2.20 Sustainability through Design: Stakeholder-based Sustainability concepts for fringe-related Open Space Development
Elke Vanempten and Bruno De Meulder
uRBANISM
2.21 Integrative urban Development Concept: Horizontal and vertical approach to integrative and sustainable urban planning
Emilia Rönkkö
2.22 Biourbanism as new epistemological perspective between Science, Design and Nature
Antonio Caperna and Stefano Serafini
2.23 Sustainable Architecture, Public Space, and the importance of Place-making
Samra Mohsin Khan
2.24 The Pueblo house and the Mobile Home: J.B. Jackson’s Vernacular Landscape and the Sustainable Redevelopment of Suburbia
Bruno Notteboom
2.25 Water sensitive urban design: A speculative exercise for the Brussels Capital Region
Nadia Casabella and Catalina Codruta Dobre
221
231
237
243
255
263
269
279
287
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3.1 Transition Into Eco-Effectiveness Is A Long-Term Process
Claudia Carreras, Katarzyna Jegorow, Michel Jeursen, Colm mac Aoidh, Sis Pillen and Marek Zahradnik
3.2 Learning Ecology: How to use and learn from Ecological Methods?
Angela Cichon, Sandro Govaert, Anna Martinez Falguera, Michala Lietavova, Marine Pirenne and Sandra Schippers
3.3 Scale and Journey in Retroactive design
Jacobo Abril Herrero, Eva Bóková, Sibel Gölemen, Katarzyna Kamierczak, Fien Rebry and Sam Verschoren
3.4 Social dimension of up-cycling: Engaging local community in brown field (re)development
Gemma Casellas, Monika Jaskulska, Zuzana Kneznikova, Jérémie Lichtfus, Marieke Senesael and Bram Van den Brande
3.5 Does an Architecture of Good Intentions really matter?
Beste Cakir, Ruben Jannses, Ivana Linderova, Emilie Otté, Silvia Iglesias Santos, Felix Schiettecatte and Mateusz Szymanowski
3.6 Imagining The New Collective
Katherine Seagrief , uuganjargal Batsuuri, Francisco Gómez, Minna Hulkkonen, Adam Lukaovi and Eva Meirsschaut
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3.7 Responsive Design and Governance
Niels Decoster, Yuka Goto, Gema Hernandez Moral, Jagoda Krawczyk, Aditya Nur Pradhana, Michael Sanchez Alfaro and Joeri van Calster
3.8 Affordable Techniques By Design
Thierry Ghijsen, Georgios Ioannou, Barbora Latalova, Maciej Misiaszek, Ou ueno, Alexander Verbeke and Inse Vanneuville
3.9 Thinking in Shades
Simon Matthys, Mohamed Anes Benchaabane, Sato Wakiko, Stephanie Van Lembergen and
Chawapol Watcharasukarn
Johannes Alge, Charlotte Bolle, Nissim Geron, Thibaut Luyten, Charles-Antoine Pavy and Evangelos Stavrakakis
3.11 Sustainability consciousness by design
Alejandra Vázquez Luna, Giulia Cenere, Andreas Karamalikis, Jebbe Houttekier, Maros Somora and Sylvain Auxent
3.12 Fluid interpretation and flexibility in design
Amadé De Moyer, Marzieh Mazrouei Sebdani, Dimitri Meert, Lea Mittelberger, Hannes Monserez, Elze Schuurman and Indre Zuzeviciute
3.13 Participatory design: From doing less bad towards doing more good Stijn Wynants, Ayush Kalra, Thomas Heyndrickx, Lucas Vandeneede, Mauro Calderone, Martijn Verfaillie, Obieromah Tomi and Sam De Dobbeleer
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to express our gratitude to all those people who have helped us in making this book project; to all those who contributed to this book through their work as authors, reviewed the contributions and provided valuable feed-back to the authors, talked over the many intellectual challenges in the conception of this book, provided useful comments for improv- ing the intellectual content of this book, assisted in editing, translating, proofreading, layout and design.
A few people among them need to be named in particular for their help and support: Griet Verbeeck, Anirban Adhiya, Abel Tablada, Arnaud Evrard, André Stephan, and Stefan Boeykens. Moreover, we would also like to thank in particular the contributors to the first part of this book: Steven A. Moore, Philippe Samyn, Emmanuel Rey, Andy van den Dobbelsteen, and again Griet Verbeeck.
Gudrun De Maeyer deserves a special mention: without her unwavering commitment, support, and encouragement this book project would not have been possible. The able assistance provided by Ben Robberechts in the graphic design and layout of the book speaks for itself. In general, we would like to thank all the students and staff of the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture who participated in this book project.
Above all we would like to thank our respective families for their support and love in pursuing our intellectual endeavours: Hanne and Ayla in the case of Ahmed; Joost, Daan, and Illo in the case of Karen.
We beg forgiveness of all those who have been with us in shaping our intellectual trajectories and whose names we have failed to mention.
Ahmed Z. Khan Karen Allacker
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Probably this book is about “Absorbing Sustainability”.
In the same way, Rem Koolhaas has been proposing “Absorbing Modernity 1914–2014” for the contribution of all the pavilions at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice.
I was somewhat surprised by the response of Brazil to Rem’s question.
Invited by the Bienal de São Paulo Foundation, diplomat and architecture critic André Aranha Corrêa do Lago agreed to curate the Brazilian contribution to the exhibition.
In explaining the pavilion’s intention, the curator stated the following: ‘Brazil is one of the countries that absorbed the precepts of modern architecture in the most interesting ways, and this helped strengthen the national identity. Unlike other countries, which, over the centuries, developed a typical national architecture— recognizable in caricatural form to other people—what we call “Brazilian architecture” is not a legacy of the past, but is actually modern.‘
The exhibition shows that Brazilian architecture has become this relevant thanks to a steady stream of important personalities, many of whom worked closely together: Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Roberto Burle Marx, Affonso Reidy, Lina Bo Bardi, Lelé (João Filgueiras Lima) and Paulo Mendes da Rocha.’ Together they form an impressive wealth of talent.
While today in most parts of the world modernity and modernism have a negative connotation in immediate relation to sustainability, André Aranha Corrêa do Lago tells a story in which modern architecture is pushed forward as a “Fundamental” in architecture. Modernity in Brazil is not just a concept or an understanding -at least according to the curator- but an amazingly efficient reality. This is an observation that can be made in time, and for which the meaning of the concept of modernity has barely changed.
Please allow me to try to push sustainability forward in the same manner as a “fundamental”. Is it too early to realize that the ideology of sustainability will ever evolve past the ‘fuss’ surrounding it today into an understanding that envelops a timeless zeitgeist from a historical perspective.
In that very same Venice, I took the picture below during the biennale.
Only recently the city started to consider water more as a traitor to its very existence, rather than an ally and a lifeline. Sustainability, in contrast, has grown from a threat and is now very often and very simply spontaneously transformed into an ally. Aren’t we losing track of something important then?
With thanks to Ahmed Z. Khan, Karen Allacker and all the contributors.
Enjoy the book.
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introduction
Ahmed Z. Khan and Karen Allacker
Architecture in its classical meaning is understood as a meaningful integration of the use (utilitas), stability (firmi- tas) and aesthetic beauty (venustas) through design for (re)making and (re)shaping of buildings, urban spaces and the built environment. Sustainability understood as a development paradigm aspires an integrative attitude towards the social, the economic and the environmental concerns to unfold development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” While fully acknowl- edging the diversity of perspectives in both architecture and sustainability discourses, our intention behind this book is to highlight and focus upon the integrative po- tential of architecture and investigate the ways in which it can contribute to the further development of the sustain- ability paradigm. With ‘architecture and sustainability’ in the title of our book, and not ‘sustainable architecture’, we also highlight the importance of the dialectics between the two as a more productive approach: What is the value of sustainability for architecture, and vice versa? in what ways the emergence of sustainability paradigm has influ- enced architecture? What are the architectural perspec- tives on sustainability? With these intentions, our objec- tive in this book is to present, and take stock of, recent developments in research, theory and practice of archi- tecture in response to the challenges of sustainability, and in the process make the case for a rethinking and de- velopment of integrated design for addressing the issues and challenges of the ecological age.
forty-four contributions by over a hundred authors from around the world are assembled in this book as chapters, which offer critical perspectives on architecture and sus- tainability relationships, and in the process, unfold inte- grative pathways. they have been organised into three parts, namely, integrated design in theory and practice, integrated design perspectives, and explorations through integrated design. each of these parts is provided with a detailed introduction, whereas this introduction expands on the intentions and main objectives behind the book, and in the process, presents critical perspectives on ar- chitecture and sustainability relationships.
in this introduction comprising six sections, we start with taking stock of the ways in which architecture and sus- tainability relationships are theorized and highlight the ways in which ‘sustainable architecture’ as a contested notion can be transcended. this is followed by an analysis of the globalised sustainability perspectives that renders sustainability as an evolving paradigm, and architectural perspectives on sustainability. in the latter, we present in more detail the ways in which environmental and social pillars have evolved as specific sensibilities in architec- tural thinking that in some ways prefigures the sustain- ability debate. the fourth section of this introduction aims to go beyond the pillars and makes the case for a rethink- ing of integrated design. in making this case, we present
four perspectives as integrative thematic attitudes: Archi- tecture as Place-making; rethinking Public Space and urbanism(s); research by design; Architecture as life- cycle thinking; and bioclimatism and integrated design. the fifth section, namely, generating Sustainability con- cepts from Architectural Perspectives – recaps the call for papers that this book (and in particular, its first two parts) is based upon, followed by the last section that summa- rizes the structure of the book.
1. Architecture And SuStAinAbility
While sustainability has become a mainstream concern in architectural theory and practice, the debate is frag- mented and the concept of sustainable architecture is increasingly contested. underpinning this debate are a proliferation of sustainability claims and a wide variety of conceptualizations. Although introduced formally as a new concept in 1987, some argue that Sustainability is not a new concern. they posit it was a necessity for cen- turies and after abandoning it due to humankind’s belief in unrestrainedly exploiting the earth’s carrying capacity, largely as a result of the industrial revolution, a concern for our planet has reemerged on an unparalleled scale.1 the diversity of perspectives and competing notions of sustainability is clearly discernable among the prolifer- ating environmental systems, ecologisms, and design approaches championed in practice as a revolutionary ‘change.’2 Sustainability is questioned as a concept that aims at “commodifying nature-society relationships”, at manufacturing scarcity in the “age of abundance”; it is problematized as a ‘hegemonic’ doctrine; it is analyzed as a “shift from mainstream modernism”; and qualified as an “integrative framework”. the proliferation of these com- peting notions of sustainability has led others to argue that sustainability has become an empty box and termed as an “empty signifier”; it seems that sustainability is what you make of it. in the contemporary discourses con- ceptualizing sustainability in architecture and urbanism, a wide variety of definitions exist.3 Whether building upon developments in other disciplines or mobilizing different philosophical frameworks, such conceptualizations show “a remarkably diverse constellation of ideas that defy simple categorization.”4 embedded within this constella- tion are a multitude of competing notions of sustainabil- ity in relation to the use, production, and consumption of space and resources in the built environment: some fo- cus on the performance aspect of systems (sustainability measurement indices, eco-labels, etc.); others qualify the ethical dimension as central to the sustainability debate; and yet others look at design, policy, technology and management as the proper arenas for dealing with sus- tainability in the built environment.5 it gives way to what canizaro and tanzer call the “self-doubt”, wherein “Some are reluctant to act on an incomplete understanding of the environment we study, others on the basis of only pro-
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visional theory. indeed, some argue that sustainability is not a goal at all, but merely a lens, a way of filtering and acting.” it comes as no surprise then if ‘sustainable’ ar- chitecture and urbanism is increasingly being acknowl- edged as a “contested concept.”6
More importantly, however, a consensus seems to be evolving in the recent architectural scholarship to focus more on ‘ways’ of conceptualizing ‘sustainability’ with a “pluralist imagination” rather than to search for a univer- sal one-size-fit-all type of sustainability.7 this is the point of departure in formulating our approach to transcend ‘sustainable architecture’ as a contested notion, where we start with acknowledging that “to foreclose contes- tation” is not an option.8 While adhering to the ‘pluralist imagination,’ as outlined in our article on ‘design for the ecological age’ in the Journal of Architectural education (JAe), we use the widening gap in the interaction between theory and practice as our main point of departure. for us, theory and practice are the two sides of the same coin, and their interaction provides a dynamic frame of refer- ence. focusing on their interaction is all the more impor- tant given the present trends that “isolate practice from research, and research from practice,” and in which some say that sustainability is a “mainstream concern” in de- sign thinking (theory), while others argue that contempo- rary architectural practice tends to “confuse, rather than reinforce, a progressive image of earth friendly architec- ture.”9 even in the more positivist accounts, a half-dozen competing “logics” are traceable, underlying sustainable practices.10 connected to this interaction is our second point of departure, which is a plea for inter- and trans-dis- ciplinarity; collaboration between architectural practice, academia, other disciplines, the construction and private industry, and the general public is “pivotal to address systemic issues” of sustainability.11 Such collaboration through productive dialogue is pivotal for moving towards a shared understanding of sustainability as a concep- tual model (paradigm). extending this dialogue,…
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