NEIGHBORHOOD EVOLUTION Information from old building used to inform neighborhood
Acorn is a metaphor of transferring data/knowledge.
Information from old building used to inform new neighborhood construction. Buildings ‘evolve’ in neighborhood because of “oak”- main source of information. Why not run energy analysis on existing buildings before new construction?
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How does the embodied composition (material make-up, embodied carbon) inform new construction? Can/should the old buildings be more valued as social hubs? Can a financial model be developed to support them (air rights transfer, tax incentives, etc.) as depositories of information?
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