UPDATE: The project has started - and is now in the early design phases. The first medium rise office building of this low-to-no carbon emission district just won the 2011 Holcim Acknowledgement Award. It is designed entirely with an innovative CLT (cross laminated timber) structure.  Low2No: A Sustainable Development Design Competition, Helsinki, Finland - one of the best for understanding “climate-neutral” architecture and urbanism!! (2009-2010) Click on image for more information. NB: the competition did not ask for architectural design (the winner gets to do that later) but it was about creating a time-based Low2No strategy! Notice the emphasis on changing behavior and habits…. Several interesting submissions: The winning team Sauerbruch Hutton - a “City as Living Factory of Ecology”.  Another good project is by REX - with growth boundaries at the edges of cities and transfer of development rights ($$$) from rural lands to urban cores. Also check out the BIG entry ”ReciproCity” for solar envelope ideas.

UPDATE: The project has started - and is now in the early design phases. The first medium rise office building of this low-to-no carbon emission district just won the 2011 Holcim Acknowledgement Award. It is designed entirely with an innovative CLT (cross laminated timber) structure. 

Low2No: A Sustainable Development Design Competition, Helsinki, Finland - one of the best for understanding “climate-neutral” architecture and urbanism!! (2009-2010) Click on image for more information.

NB: the competition did not ask for architectural design (the winner gets to do that later) but it was about creating a time-based Low2No strategy! Notice the emphasis on changing behavior and habits…. Several interesting submissions:

The winning team Sauerbruch Hutton - a “City as Living Factory of Ecology”. 

Another good project is by REX - with growth boundaries at the edges of cities and transfer of development rights ($$$) from rural lands to urban cores.

Also check out the BIG entry ”ReciproCity” for solar envelope ideas.

UPDATE: The project has started - and is now in the early design phases. The first medium rise office building of this low-to-no carbon emission district just won the 2011 Holcim Acknowledgement Award. It is designed entirely with an innovative CLT (cross laminated timber) structure.  Low2No: A Sustainable Development Design Competition, Helsinki, Finland - one of the best for understanding “climate-neutral” architecture and urbanism!! (2009-2010) Click on image for more information. NB: the competition did not ask for architectural design (the winner gets to do that later) but it was about creating a time-based Low2No strategy! Notice the emphasis on changing behavior and habits…. Several interesting submissions: The winning team Sauerbruch Hutton - a “City as Living Factory of Ecology”.  Another good project is by REX - with growth boundaries at the edges of cities and transfer of development rights ($$$) from rural lands to urban cores. Also check out the BIG entry ”ReciproCity” for solar envelope ideas.

UPDATE: The project has started - and is now in the early design phases. The first medium rise office building of this low-to-no carbon emission district just won the 2011 Holcim Acknowledgement Award. It is designed entirely with an innovative CLT (cross laminated timber) structure. 

Low2No: A Sustainable Development Design Competition, Helsinki, Finland - one of the best for understanding “climate-neutral” architecture and urbanism!! (2009-2010) Click on image for more information.

NB: the competition did not ask for architectural design (the winner gets to do that later) but it was about creating a time-based Low2No strategy! Notice the emphasis on changing behavior and habits…. Several interesting submissions:

The winning team Sauerbruch Hutton - a “City as Living Factory of Ecology”. 

Another good project is by REX - with growth boundaries at the edges of cities and transfer of development rights ($$$) from rural lands to urban cores.

Also check out the BIG entry ”ReciproCity” for solar envelope ideas.

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Meta Brunzema is the principal of the architecture and urban design firm Meta Brunzema Architect P.C. in New York City. She is also a professor in the graduate Architecture and Urban Design Department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn - where she teaches design and history/theory.

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