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BIOSYNERGIES NANCY YEN-WEN CHENG Image by Portland Sustainability Institute EcoDistricts, Biomimicry and Digital Fabrication
BIOSYNERGIES NANCY YEN-WEN CHENG
Image by Portland Sustainability Institute
EcoDistricts, Biomimicry and Digital Fabrication
ECODISTRICT Concept
EcoDistricts Initiative – Framework Draft, Portland Sustainability Institute, March 2010
ECODISTRICT Performance
EcoDistricts Initiative – Framework Draft, Portland Sustainability Institute, March 2010
ECODISTRICT Resource Flows
by Marc Holt By Marc Holt
Hammarby Sjostad Eco-Cycle, Sweden
ECODISTRICT Civic Ecology
• Civic Ecology is the integrated web of energy, nutrient, resource, financial, information, and cultural flows and interactions that are envisioned, created and managed by citizens geographically defined community and its city-region. It is a human ecology of place, intimately integrating both natural and social/culture systems. - Tim Smith, SERA Architects
By Ethan Selzer et. al. for the Portland Sustainability Institute
SYSTEMS THINKING Parts within a whole • EcoDistrct • Living Building
• Spatial Experience • Material Research
ECODISTRICT
Gateway Ecodistrict Water flow by ZGF
pdxinstitute.org
LIVING BUILDING
By Audrey Snyder, 2011
"Imagine a building designed and constructed to function as elegantly and efficiently as a flower: a building informed by its bioregion’s characteristics, and that generates all of its own energy with renewable resources, captures and treats all of its water, and operates efficiently and for maximum beauty” - The Living Building Challenge 2.0 < ilbi.org >
SPATIAL EXPERIENCE
By Audrey Snyder, 2011
MATERIAL ASSEMBLY
By Audrey Snyder, 2011
DESIGN PROCESS
http://www.weathervortex.com/wakes.htm (left) Yves Couder (right)
BIOMIMICRY
Backyard Biomimicry Workshop Sketch by Regina Rowland
FREEDOM – site choice
Waste DIsposal at Hammarby Sjostad, Sweden
FREEDOM – guided programming
From Jean von Bargen’s Programming class, 2010
SUPPORT COURSES
FRAMEWORK for development
By Kristie Lane Anderson, B.Arch. 2011
FRAMEWORK for development
Joy Rackley’s Corvallis Cohousing Terminal, 2005
FRAMEWORK for development
Joy Rackley’s Corvallis Cohousing Terminal, 2005
BLOGS AS OUTREACH
Slide by Kathy Sucher, San Jose State University
Anneliese Sitterly Becca Cavell Bill Hart Bob Hastings Bob Hermanson Brian Cavanaugh Craig Briscoe James Meyer Jeff Stuhr Jenny Marx Joann Le Justin Hunt Kelcey Beardsley Lia Sudarma Lloyd Lindley Mark Raggett Mary Hansel Michael Great Michael McCulloch Nancy Merryman Scott Thayer Jim Pettinari Don Eggleston Lucas Gray Gregg Sanders Ben Waechter Laura Foxman Ben Gates David Piper Hiromi Ogawa Diana Moosman Claire Maulhardt Janet Hull Thia Bankey Bill Hart Dietrich Weiland Nicholas Papaefthimiou Tracy Bascue Chris Chatto Charles Kelly Riggs Skepnek Jim Kavelage Joe Baldwin Karina Ruiz Eric Hoff Nathan Hilmer
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY of PRACTICE
CONNECT to the World
Amphibian Carpet by Selah Au, Bart Chui, Hins Cheung & Lewis Choi
SUMMARY - Deep Green EcoDistricts, Living Building Challenge & Biomimicry - Site & Program choice - Hands-on Digital / Analog Making - Professional Connections online & face2face http://aaablogs.uoregon.edu/biosynergies2012
Nancy Yen-wen Cheng, [email protected] Director, Portland Architecture Program
