Excited to have spoken last week at the national AIA convention in Atlanta with partners Thomas Fisher, Assoc AIA, outgoing dean of College of Design University of Minnesota; and Ali Heshmati, AIA, architect and principal of L.E.A.D. Inc, Norway, about our concept of LiTE (Lightweight, inexpensive, Temporal Environments).
Our talk, “To Build or Not to Build: Is That the Question?” was well received and solicited many good responses. We posed the challenge to architects and our profession that as designers we must take into account numerous economic, social, technological and philosophical changes that are rapidly disrupting the status quo across the globe, in order to help societies move forward in a more sustainable way. We do this through analysis of client’s programmatic brief to see if an alternative to a building can meet their needs in a more sustainable manner. With temporary, transportable structures, many programmatic issues can be met without needing to create bricks-and-mortar solutions. The use of pop-up venues, such as a large format stadium that can be set up and taken down when its immediate function has ceased, means that designers can propose low-carbon impact solutions where they're needed at lower financial cost and lower impact on the environment. [See my Feb 2015 blog post about Todd Dalland's temporary skyscraper.]
Our talk, “To Build or Not to Build: Is That the Question?” was well received and solicited many good responses. We posed the challenge to architects and our profession that as designers we must take into account numerous economic, social, technological and philosophical changes that are rapidly disrupting the status quo across the globe, in order to help societies move forward in a more sustainable way. We do this through analysis of client’s programmatic brief to see if an alternative to a building can meet their needs in a more sustainable manner. With temporary, transportable structures, many programmatic issues can be met without needing to create bricks-and-mortar solutions. The use of pop-up venues, such as a large format stadium that can be set up and taken down when its immediate function has ceased, means that designers can propose low-carbon impact solutions where they're needed at lower financial cost and lower impact on the environment. [See my Feb 2015 blog post about Todd Dalland's temporary skyscraper.]
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