Research meets Sustainability

What if a building would be its own power plant. What if the term sustainability would be driven to its boundaries. What will be possible in 50 years. Based on research I did the last weeks the design and appearance of my research complex will be heavily influenced by current and future techniques to produce energy and gain profit for our environment.

As London is one of the biggest cities in the world it also has to come up with solutions on how to cope with the huge amount of CO2 produced by cars, factories, .... The first step has already been made by introducing a city road charge called the Congestion Charge which everybody that´s using a car has to pay. But that can´t be the last step. We as architects have the chance to contribute a huge amount of input into this discussion. Buildings must be seen as an integral part of the consuming and producing system of energy and for this reason the time has come to push boundaries into this direction.

talk about the site ...

i think i found a place for my building - some nice features there

- next to the Themse
- an old, empty building either has to be restructured or take the site as it was empty
- street that runs under the existing building
- somekind of little harbour situation at the riverside

find more about in the site-section

http://buildingmagic.blogspot.com/p/site.html

new client update ...

maybe for them? Open source thinking?

The Wellcome Trust was established in 1936 as an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. With an endowment of around £14.5 billion, it is the United Kingdom's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research. The overall mission of the trust is "to foster and promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health", and in addition to funding biomedical research it supports the public understanding of science.

The Wellcome Trust plays an important role in encouraging publication of research in open access repositories such as UK PubMed Central (UKPMC). The Wellcome Trust believes that maximising the distribution of these papers - by providing free, online access - is the most effective way of ensuring that the research can be accessed, read and built upon. In turn, this will foster a richer research culture.

o.s. drugs & medicine ...

something to orient concerning my choice of the clients:

http://tropicaldisease.org/

http://www.iowh.org/ 

http://www.dndi.org/index.php

... updated client section

about open source thinking ...

http://buildingmagic.blogspot.com/p/client.html

... gh,firefly - it works !!!