ENVIRONMENTAL DATA DRIVEN PARAMETRIC BUILDINGS
LEARNING HOW TO CREATE NET ZERO BUILDINGS TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE
Seminar Faculty: Carlos Bausa Martinez
Credits: The Bio-Cabin Project / Courtesy of W-LAB
The seminar focuses on the workflows used by leading architectural firms like Foster and Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects, to create passive architectures to target Net Zero and Low Carbon solutions. After COP26, According to the latest UN climate reports, Architecture, and construction processes alone, are responsible for almost 40% of all the CO2 emissions humans are responsible for, having a greater impact than Transportation or other industrial processes like food production and agriculture on their own. Architectural envelope design is what has a major impact on defining cooling and heating loads accounting as an average, 75% of the operational energy total consumption, over its life cycle. If we want to create efficient buildings to reduce impact on Climate Change, we´ll need to focus on studying how to create more efficient building envelopes that could have passive behaviour, and at the same time integrate the use of renewables on site, to help on the detachment of buildings from fossil fuels. Over the evolution of this workshop, we will study how to create parametric passive buildings, targeting the achievement of Operational Net Zero, to define the next generation of carbon neutral architectures.
Learning Objectives
At course completion the student will:
- Understand the basics climate data driven geometries, and Net Zero architecture;
- Learn how to optimize and bench march bioclimatic designs to become carbon neutral;
- Be capable to design a real-situation project at proof-of-concept level, where environmental analysis is used to inform architectural decision making.
Faculty
Carlos Bausa Martinez is the Cofounder of Wild Design Studio + W-LAB. He is a Spanish Architect and Entrepreneur based in London, specialist in computational design and environmental simulation. He studied the Master in Advanced Architecture at IAAC Barcelona, and spent 5 years at Foster + Partners as Environmental Design Analyst in the Specialist Modelling Group, and later on moved to Zaha Hadid Architects to work as “Sustainability Team Lead”. Since 2019 he is working on the development of the sustainability agenda of the company with his inhouse ZHA team, dedicated to the definition of design workflows, linking environmental simulation and geometry modelling.
In parallel he also started 2017 working with her wife on creating parametric product design under their own brand, Wild Design Studio, and then two years later during the Pandemic, concerned about climate emergency, he started W-LAB to promote new sustainable architectural solutions that could take care of the environments we are living in, while researching with drones the influence of the built environments and natural spaces around us.
W-LAB: wds-lab.com/
Wild Design Studio: wild-design-studio.com/
Zaha Hadid Architects: zaha-hadid.com/