Teaching a design studio without consideration for sustainability, resilience, and performance leads future architects in the wrong direction

摘要

What differentiated the high-rise studio that you ran last year at the GSD from other studios that focus on sustainability and net-zero design? Ali Malkawi: The intention was to try to take some of the work that we've been doing at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, expand it, and relate it to education-and design education in particular. We chose the residential high-rise typology since there are so many of them around the world, and they've been developing in a way that is repetitive and mostly with the intention to maximize profit-relying very little on the concepts of the local situation. The intention was also to find ways of educating the students on how to deploy the right principles, and to be able to utilize the same type of ideas for any kind of project. It was important to give the students the tools and techniques to be able to generate information about environmental and site-specific issues early in the design process, which allowed them to be able to respond to that information and integrate it into a design.