Comments on: Green architecture – Singapore art school http://www.robaid.com/bionics/green-architecture-singapore-art-school.htm Robots, gadgets, tech, bionics and green architecture news Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:21:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: gd http://www.robaid.com/bionics/green-architecture-singapore-art-school.htm/comment-page-1#comment-15 gd Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:53:27 +0000 http://www.robaid.com/?p=893#comment-15 Well, I partially agree. Not everyone is fit to fulfill the requirements for their studies or their work in order to finish their obligations from home. Architects on the other hand could work from home even in the past, when they drew the plans on the paper. Some countries (especially USA where people travel from state to state in order to go to work) need to restructure their whole system of living and working. The solution is not in entrapment of people within their living quarters in order to lessen the pollution. Smaller self sustainable communities would solve a lot of problems regarding carbon emission. Well, I partially agree.

Not everyone is fit to fulfill the requirements for their studies or their work in order to finish their obligations from home. Architects on the other hand could work from home even in the past, when they drew the plans on the paper.

Some countries (especially USA where people travel from state to state in order to go to work) need to restructure their whole system of living and working.

The solution is not in entrapment of people within their living quarters in order to lessen the pollution. Smaller self sustainable communities would solve a lot of problems regarding carbon emission.

]]> By: Charles Traylor http://www.robaid.com/bionics/green-architecture-singapore-art-school.htm/comment-page-1#comment-14 Charles Traylor Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:26 +0000 http://www.robaid.com/?p=893#comment-14 It is laudable to see the efforts being made to reduce carbon emissions and to produce green and sustainable buildings. However, it is not enough. It is not nearly enough. More buildings, green, sustainable or otherwise are still just that-more buildings. It is so fundamentally simple. More buildings produce more destinations. More destinations produce more traffic. More traffic produces more congestion. More congestion is destroying us. Look at any major thorougfare in any city in the US and in many cities in the rest of the world at rush hour. That thoroughfare is almost certainly clogged to the point of gridlock with traffic, and it’s getting worse. Further, the ratio of vehicles, carrying just one passenger to all the rest of the vehicles, carrying two or more passengers is likely over 100:1. It’s ludicrous. If we keep this up we will welt up like some overgrown bacteria colony that has chewed up its food supply and collapse back into ourselves in disease and death. We need to stop putting up more buildings unless it is absolutely necessary. An increasing portion of the work product, produced today, can be sent over a wire, or wireless. In a growing number of cases it is no longer necessary to go to work. Work is not a place that you must go. It is something that you do. Architects, who pat themselves on their collective backs, for being leaders in creative thought and action, almost overwhelmingly are continuing to reject this notion about work. They could but they have not yet become role models for what really needs to be done. They need to give their staff laptops, send them home to work, shut their offices and throw away the keys. Doing this would be by way of example a demonstration of virtual architecture, which is the ultimate in “green” and sustainability. Additionally, whether these architects might realize it or not, the productivity and the profitability of their practices would go up significantly. And if architects can accomplish this for themselve, then they can begin showing others how to do it, too. With or without architects it is starting to happen anyway. Virtual architectural environments are starting to crop up all over the place. Witness amazon.dom, dell.com, ebay. com, secondlife.com, and the staggering numbers of social media networking sites. Architects must lead, follow or get the heck out of the way. Best regards and good keyboarding to you, Charles Traylor, AIA, NCARB President Archline-BIM-CAD Services for the Building Industry 15950 Dallas Parkway, Suite 400 Dallas, Texas 75248 Toll Free Number: (866) 412-5329 P.S. The Parkway address is window dressing. All Archline has at that Class A office building is a mailbox. We are a company, which typifies virtual architecture. We are an international wide area network of CAD collaborators, who come together on the Internet to produce BIM-CAD work product online. My work station is in a bedroom in my home. We have present and past collaborators all over the world. We have done work for over 150 architectural firms and over 1,000 of their projects in 26 states, The US Virgin Islands and overseas. Most of our collaborators and many of our architect-clients have never met anyone else in our network even once. It is laudable to see the efforts being made to reduce carbon emissions and to produce green and sustainable buildings. However, it is not enough. It is not nearly enough. More buildings, green, sustainable or otherwise are still just that-more buildings. It is so fundamentally simple. More buildings produce more destinations. More destinations produce more traffic. More traffic produces more congestion. More congestion is destroying us. Look at any major thorougfare in any city in the US and in many cities in the rest of the world at rush hour. That thoroughfare is almost certainly clogged to the point of gridlock with traffic, and it’s getting worse. Further, the ratio of vehicles, carrying just one passenger to all the rest of the vehicles, carrying two or more passengers is likely over 100:1. It’s ludicrous.

If we keep this up we will welt up like some overgrown bacteria colony that has chewed up its food supply and collapse back into ourselves in disease and death. We need to stop putting up more buildings unless it is absolutely necessary.

An increasing portion of the work product, produced today, can be sent over a wire, or wireless. In a growing number of cases it is no longer necessary to go to work. Work is not a place that you must go. It is something that you do.

Architects, who pat themselves on their collective backs, for being leaders in creative thought and action, almost overwhelmingly are continuing to reject this notion about work. They could but they have not yet become role models for what really needs to be done.

They need to give their staff laptops, send them home to work, shut their offices and throw away the keys. Doing this would be by way of example a demonstration of virtual architecture, which is the ultimate in “green” and sustainability. Additionally, whether these architects might realize it or not, the productivity and the profitability of their practices would go up significantly.

And if architects can accomplish this for themselve, then they can begin showing others how to do it, too. With or without architects it is starting to happen anyway. Virtual architectural environments are starting to crop up all over the place. Witness amazon.dom, dell.com, ebay. com, secondlife.com, and the staggering numbers of social media networking sites.

Architects must lead, follow or get the heck out of the way.

Best regards and good keyboarding to you,

Charles Traylor, AIA, NCARB
President
Archline-BIM-CAD Services for the Building Industry
15950 Dallas Parkway, Suite 400
Dallas, Texas 75248
Toll Free Number: (866) 412-5329

P.S. The Parkway address is window dressing. All Archline has at that Class A office building is a mailbox. We are a company, which typifies virtual architecture. We are an international wide area network of CAD collaborators, who come together on the Internet to produce BIM-CAD work product online. My work station is in a bedroom in my home. We have present and past collaborators all over the world. We have done work for over 150 architectural firms and over 1,000 of their projects in 26 states, The US Virgin Islands and overseas. Most of our collaborators and many of our architect-clients have never met anyone else in our network even once.

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