Additional green design strategies include the extension of the sculpture garden onto the roof to create a green roof for improved insulation and stormwater infiltration, as well as a structural concept created by Holl called the “Breathing Ts”, which serve as ducts for light as well as ventilation. During the winter, air is warmed and directed into rooms, and during the summer hot air is exhausted out. A computer precisely controls the interior climate for individual exhibits, and a translucent insulating material embedded in the glass cavities of the Ts helps control the light. The building itself is a work of art that matches the caliber of the exhibits held inside.
[...] new Resnick Pavilion is part of a larger redevelopment plan for the art museum called the Transformation. The impressive endeavor includes the neighboring five-story Broad [...]
[...] new studio, teaching and research building. The project focuses on reducing energy use by providing daylight infiltration deep within the building. Recycled glass is used exclusively throughout the entire facade of the [...]
[...] working today. His architectural work is widely recognized and covers extensive ground ranging from museums, educational facilities, residences, and much more – but it has been his carefully [...]
A friend, Dan, and I brainstormed brick shaped plastic bottles, interlocking (tongue & groove), to reduce waste, offer free building blocks, reducing amount of space taken for storage of normal shaped soap, soda, etc., bottles, in addition to reducing brick production polution. Just fill them with the dirt under your feet. Talking the companies into switching to standard sized, interchangable bottles may be slow at the beginning, but, the others would fall ino step, out of goodheartedness, guilt and reason, like people are buying the green over black products..