Page 55 - Designing Ways 254

Marina One by Ingenhoven Architects - Chapter Ten - The City State - pages 607-608.
Photo credit: Drawings courtesy download by Ingenhoven Architects, exterior image
courtesy HGEsch©.

Hesitant to embrace the needs of
society and the environment after years
of misguided utopian idealism, replaced
by pluralistic silos of self-involved
objectivism, the design domain struggles
for its relevance and survival in its
spiraling downward decline. The problem
is not about how to design, evidenced by
unproductive antithetical related doctrines,
but what should AEC professionals
practice and accomplish to meet the
existential needs of a warming planet,
growing populations, and deteriorating
natural habitats and resources.
While hope remains in the efforts
made by Architecture 2030, The Living
Building Challenge, BREAM, and the
There is a clear consensus the future inevitable revolutionary climate change U.S. Green Building Council, very few
will be entirely different from anything by leveraging the experiences, insights, design and construction professionals
before. Consequently, this book is about and trends gained by bridging the most are meeting basic renewable energy
mastering the dangerous forces of climate significant transition period ever within and embodied carbon goals. Most AEC
change and the related threats of the the time of contemporary architecture professionals want to participate in
Anthropocene through building design and building construction. Moreover, the every way possible, but the industry
and construction tactics and methods future trends defining the next few decades cannot meet anthropogenic demands
as it threatens, changes, and redefines support a long-range forecast for unlimited without changing its values and outcomes
the world as we know it. The narratives professional opportunity mixed with necessary to meet societal needs and
demonstrate how readers can embrace turbulence, uncertainty, and peril. expectations.

dw • Issue 254 55