IGBC 2014 - Jason Pomeroy, Pomeroy Studio

KEEPING A LID ON PANDORA’S BOXINTERNATIONAL GREEN BUILDING CONFERENCE (IGBC) 2014PROF. JASON POMEROYSETTING THE VISION FOR SUSTAINABILITY

INTERNATIONAL GREEN BUILDING CONFERENCE (IGBC) 2014

Pandora – Goddess of invention


Pandora’s box



Pandora came to stand for man-made

things that run the risk of continual

harm

Pandora’s box



The consequences of opening‘pandora’s box’


“When you see something that is technically sweet, you

go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success.

That is the way it was withthe atomic bomb”

J. Robert Oppenheimer


Ruins of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb blast


We face on a daily basis our own Pandora’s box


Rapid urbanization, population increase and the privatization of space has seen the rise of the

concrete jungle


’Getting things built’without considering the

consequences of ones actions


The builder and the artist need to come together to evaluate the

lessons from what has been built in the past, to what can be designed and executed today, and what its

impact will be in the future

Social

Economic

Environmental

Spatial

Cultural

Technological


The BAU model(unresolved building)

Absence of sustainable process


“Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war

with my time, with history, with all authority that residesin fixed and

frightened forms”

Lebbeus Woods


The balance between the builder and the artist will

similarly temper the flights of fancy with the pragmatic; the

unresolved with the resolved. In this way, we should similarly be able to

find a middleground within our built

environment


IDEA HOUSEMALAYSIA


B HOUSESINGAPORE


NOVALICHESPHILIPPINES

“THE WHOLE IS GREATER THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS”INTERNATIONAL GREEN BUILDING CONFERENCE (IGBC) 2014PROF. JASON POMEROYTHE WAY FORWARD - DEEPENING SPECIALISATION WHILE ENHANCING INTEGRATION


Reliquary boxOak _ 1100-50Kunstgew erbemuseum, Berlin


Preparation of crossAgnolo Gaddi (around 1380)Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence


SalieraBenvenuto Cellini (1540-1543)Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna


Spanish IIAntonio Stradivari (17th and 18th centuries)Palacio Real, Madrid


Crystal PalaceJoseph Paxton (19th century)London, UK


RED productsCollaboration between Apple and industrial designer Marc Newson (21st century)


FIAT 500Collaboration between FIAT and GUCCI(21st century)


Ocean EmeraldCollaboration between YachtPlus andFoster + Partners (21st century)




CON.TRACTOR n. - person or firm that does jobs especially construction under contract

(Oxford dictionary 1992)

CONTRACTOR Latin -to pull together

IGBC 2014 - Jason Pomeroy, Pomeroy Studio

Engineering

jason pomeroythe way

things builtwithout

manmade things

jason pomeroysetting

withthe atomic bombj

santa croce

centuriespalacio real

crystal palacejoseph