Portfolio - Visual Communication for Sustainable Architecture and Design - Liz Eve

Visual Communication for Sustainable Architecture & Design Portfolio - Liz Eve

Visual Communication for Sustainable Architects & Designers Portfolio - Liz Eve - www.fotohaus-de.com - @lizevefoto

About Liz Eve My passion is working creatively for the care of people and planet.

I create visual and written content to communicate design ideas. I work with architects and sustainable designers such as Arup, Deutschebahn, Stephen Marshall Architects, The Museum for Architectural Drawing and Cave Cooperative Architects.

My writing and photography has been published by RIBA Journal, Archdaily, Architizer, Auditorium Magazine, DerStandard-Austria, Homedit, Inhabitat.com, Building Magazine, Penguin Press, The Financial Times.

With a degree in psychology (BSc Bristol University) and higher diploma in Photography (Filton College HND), I recently trained as a climate mentor with Life eV. In 2019 I gained my certificate as permaculture designer. I manage communications for feldfoodforest.org, a community food forest group in Berlin.

Time to listen to and build beneficial long term relationships with colleagues and clients is important. During 14 years with fotohaus I was dedicated to creating both exceptional quality images of people and architecture, plus a positive customer experience. My creative and flexible approach leverages traditional and social media to grow influence for organisations with a sustainable or regenerative approach.

I BELIEVE IN

Ethical business Attention to detail Exploring many possible angles Stubborn optimism, relating to the climate crisis Listening more than talking The power of connection

Work Samples Here is a small selection of client projects...

Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin Architectural Photography, Brochure Images, article writing and copy editing for the editorial office of the Tchoban Foundation.

Stephen Marshall Architects, Private House at Shepherds Hill Deutschebahn, Cube 3XN Architects, sustainable office fit out Cafe Botanico, Berlin Brand images for a new website for the Forest garden cafe Potsdam Institute for Klimaforschung Inhabitat Article and Images Life Sciences, Bristol University, Arup, Sheppard Robson Architects, featured in Building Magazine Cave Cooperative, The Bale House, PR Campaign March Studio, The Nishi Building, Canberra Published Article Feld Food Forest Content and Design

Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin Architectural Photography, Brochure Images

I carried out a day of architectural photography at the Tchoban Foundation Museum for Architectural Drawing. In addition I wrote an article about the construction and energy efficient performance of the building for Inhabitat.com.

The Tchoban Foundation chose to use some of these images for to produce their brochure. I worked with their editorial office on the book 'In the Making: Ilya & Emilia Kabakov' accompanying the artist's exhibition.

Berlin’s Tchoban Foundation Museum shelters architectural history within an energy-saving, hand-drawn concrete facade

Shepherd's Hill, Stephen Marshall Architects

The new house at Shepherd's Hill replaces an existing traditional structure and is formed from traditional materials, stone, glass, and oak.

An entrance courtyard is formed to the north of the entrance, screening views to the south until entering the ground floor living spaces. These spaces are open plan at ground level with bedrooms above set within two “rabbit ears� with a roof terrace between them.

The owners of the house are in the architectural glass business and have built the project themselves. The level of detail and workmanship that they have attained is remarkable.

In addition to growing to provide viable alternatives to CO2 intensive flying, Deutsche Bahn plan to be 100% renewable powered by 2038. In order to meet climate protective goals they also reuse and recycle as much as possible within the organisation.

What might come as a surprise is how they apply this principle with style to their office interiors.

Fotohaus images of Berlin were chosen to add colour to several of the walls, and we were commissioned to document the new workspaces at the 3XN Architects designed cube, next to Berlin Hauptbahnhof.

Deutsche Bahn doesn't throw away old furniture. Instead, cupboards, tables, seats and fabrics are overhauled and reused in an upcycling process. At the new Cube offices, 700 items of used office furniture have been given a new lease of life.

Local carpentry and upholstery workshops transformed worn out pieces into new benches, tables and cabinets. Each element of the interior has been designed for minimal environmental impact.

In 2020 Cafe Botanico made a complete overhaul of their website and re-branded with new images. I continue to work with them on marketing content and we are producing a food and lifestyle book called 'The Botanico Yearbook' to emerge next year.

Supercomputers that model climate change heat the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research.

Published by Inhabitat

Thanks to the vertically orientated wooden facade, people walking in the beautiful woodland setting of Telegraph Hill in Potsdam might not even notice a new 6000-square meter building has arisen amongst the tall trees. The curvaceous trefoil-shaped structure blends harmoniously into the leafy environment.

A low impact design philosophy extends to the building mechanics: new methods and materials have been used for the insulation of the outer walls, and their efficiency will be assessed in a research project by the Technical University Dresden over three years.

Knowing that climate change research needs to move forward fast, the European Regional Development Fund financed a 4.4 million Euro supercomputer to carry out 212 trillion calculations per second from the building’s basement. With its waste heat, the whole new research building including offices for 191 researchers and support staff can be heated without using any additional sources. The high-performance computer allows the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (or PIK) to run six to nine times more simulations compared to the previously installed system.

“It was science that has put climate change on the political agenda.

And it will be science that can assess and recommend the necessary mid and long-term measures. So it is important that climate science, which is so significant for our environment and our life, has the best working conditions – including the building technology,” said parliamentary state secretary Stefan Müller at the opening of the new building.

PR for Hastings Borough Council and Cave Cooperative

March Studio Suspends over 2,000 ‘Flying’ Pieces of Reclaimed Wood in Canberra’s Ultra Green Nishi Building Molonglo Group’s Japanese-inspired Nishi Building was designed by MONA designers Fender Katsalidis Architects and Suppose Design Office in cooperation with Arup, and features a hotel, apartments, cinema and an office space complex. Over 400kW of photovoltaic solar panels form the largest solar array on any office building in Australia.

“For us this ground-floor area, what we call the ground-floor plains, we see as public spaces. We’ve always wanted the public spaces to be used not only by the tenants but by the entire community,” says Molonglo’s director Nectar Efkarpidis. “It’s about welcoming, say, ANU students who might want to just sit here with a laptop.”

The hand-crafted intrigue of March Studio’s interior encourages the visitor to linger, while the rather utopian feel of the Nishi Building contributes to the developing district of New Acton by Canberra’s lakeside. Nishi also houses the defunct department of Climate Change (now merged with Australia’s Department of Environment).

The building’s exterior presents several contrasting faces to the surroundings: the south facing facade features plant boxes making up a modest vertical garden to increase biodiversity plus 40km of wooden lattice work in the style of a complex Japanese pavilion. The wood keeps the morning sun off the glass to stop unwanted solar gain and heat.

Next to the entrance, artwork by environmental artist Steven Siegel features woven tentacles made from shredded used car tyres. The North elevation presents a futuristic concrete and wood lattice of balconies to the approaching highway.

In the midst of Australia’s tough climate both in terms of heat, drought and deleterious environmental policies, it’s encouraging to find large scale developments keeping sustainable design and construction practices at centre stage.

Strategy and content management for external communication at feldfoodforest.org with a team of creatives

© Liz Eve 2020