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Mind & Matter January 26, 2011 Material Chemistry: Part 2 Material Chemistry: Part 1 What Happened to the Great Architect-Client Relationship? Confronting a Commodity Supercycle Homeostatic Façade As Buro Happold manager Matthew Herman stated in his talk at the ARCHITECT magazine 2010 R+D Symposium , adaptive façade technologies are currently precipitating the transformation of buildings from material entities toward energy systems. This change in perspective is appropriate, since the energy used to heat, cool, and light buildings makes up approximately 30 percent of global energy consumption. Despite their potential return on investment, however, automated blinds, louvers, and other shading devices still require energy for their operation. New York architecture firm Decker Yeadon has proposed a low-energy alternative to automated mechanical systems. Read more...
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