XV World Triennal of Architecture "INTERARCH 2018”
Sustainable Architecture for Sustainable World
Sustainable Disruption
Giuseppe Longhi – RECNET/IUAV
International Academy of Architecture Sofia - Bulgaria May 2018
INTRODUCTION
The sustainable design processes today are driven by disruptive waves of innovation that reiterate the famous question of Cedric Price: “Technology is the answer. But what was the question?��
I try to illustrate the complex context of relations between the many innovations underway and the sustainable design of the space, giving evidence to the overlap of logical organizational models generated by these waves of transformation.
The operation is not simple because innovation dynamics generates externalities of all types and ecologies of value, and increasing interconnections between different systems.
In the history of design there are excellent experiences of sustainable design, but today 'as usual' project are impository, demiurgic, often wrong because politics, companies and artists thinks to achieve complex goals in a linear way. A model far from possessing the complex alphabets that should govern current sustainable planning.
I will try to explain this complex world, with a narrative, assuming as a driving forces: - the Vitruvian man in his radical mutations; - and, as plot, the chaotic and casual "dance" of disruptive events, marking the manipulation of space evolution.
INTRODUCTION
These events are: 1_the evolution of relations between man, machine and nature, 2_the evolution of connectivity from computer to global connectivity (social and physical), 3_the nano-biotechnologies up to the bionic city.
I think the sustainable urban design poses two great issues: -  how sustainable design could manage an evolutive system of disruptive events dominated by the passage from mechanical to biological world; -  different environments (biotic, physical space, bit) need multiple design alphabets (environmental, economic / social, technological, ...) and this generates asimmetries hard to manage.
From our capacity /to create new approaches to knowledge, and to develop synergies between new design and social alphabets, will depends the success of urban communities, in harmony with man and nature.
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SUSTAINABILITY
Reyner Banham, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, 1960 “Cadillac as a crime against humanity”
CONNECTIVITY
Tim Berners Lee in 1990 invent the World Wide Web
BIO-PRODUCTIVITY
J.P. Sauvage,J. Fraser Stoddart, B. L .Feringa, Nobel Prizes in Chemistry 2016 Molecular Engine Inventors
The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overhelming the Great Forces of Nature?
Climate
Cities That Think Like Planets
Biosphere
Biogeochemical cycle
Earth Space in the Antropocene: Baseline Parameters of Change Climate
Biosphere
Biogeochemical cycle
Earth Space in the Antropocene: A New Model of Production Model of Production Input Knowledge Intensity Output 1800-1960 Open Cycle ‘70 Selection of emissions: waste, water, gas ‘80 Recycle
‘90 Dematerialization & input reduction To-day Bio-intelligent Model
Biologic Design& Environmental Balance Positive
Source: Wuppertal Institute
Nicholas Negroponte: The Architecture Machine 1965
Cristopher Alexander: The Pattern Languages 1977
William J. Mitchell: The Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation and Cognition 1990
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1965 ARC MAC Olivetti P101
1990 WEB Connecting People 2010 WEB 3.0 Proactive Social Net 2015 IoT Connecting Things
2015 BODY CHIPS - ARC MAC inside human body
The problem of our century is: the home Le Corbusier (1919)
the home electronically connected MIT ouse_n (2002)
the home producing energy Danish Institut of sciences (2004)
the transition from constructing homes to cultivating homes IUAV (2006)
The urban mines: Input the natural elements The construction cultivation: the biotic buildings
Antropocenetic landscape
The urban mines: Output Waste Reuse
CONNECTED CITY Neuronal Design
Rational Cognitive Biological
METABOLISM
DECOUPLING
SDG
NEW DELHI EXPERIMENT
HoF – Horizontal Farm
VoD
Value of Differences Umbrella Think Tank
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SOCIAL STRUCTURES
HOUSING
WORK
Row material: waste
FACTORIES
Row material: agri
Developing opportunities and capabilities thank a toolkit system
Thank you for your attention!