W3-1123_THE_ARCHiNSIGHT.pdf - Henry Kofi Danso

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023  TAI #W3-1123 Weekly architecture digest Henry Kofi, Danso Light & Ventilation: Balancing function and aesthetics. To ensure a design function properly, it's crucial to align it optimally with natural light and local ventilation, often requiring openings in the architectural structure. The dynamic interaction between solid mass and void spaces adds an intriguing dimension to design. However, certain projects, influenced by various factors, may necessitate more enclosed volumes or visual barriers on specific facades. The challenge lies in balancing structural elements with natural light and ventilation. Incorporating natural light and ventilation in facades. Facades featuring perforated elements like cobogós or mashrabiya provide an excellent solution. (image: joana franca- bloco arquitetos) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Facades incorporating perforated elements like cobogós or mashrabiya offer an excellent solution. They control incoming light, obscure Adu Mensah, Daniel Good the interior, and provide protection from elements such as rain while facilitating airflow. The level of transparency varies with the size Sustainability Is Not an Option: It’s a Necessity of the openings, influencing views from both Innovative updates and opinions inside and outside. Notably, the interplay between solid and void elements creates a In the construction industry, the urgent call visually captivating texture. for sustainability is no longer a mere Sustainability is not just about adopting Despite the presence of perforated elements suggestion; it is an absolute necessity. The eco-friendly practices; it is about and their textural variations, the fundamental construction industry, once notorious for recognizing that our survival is intricately structural concept remains intact. While these its disregard for environmental impacts, tied to the health of our planet. elements introduce a sense of lightness, the now stands at a critical juncture where Although the architecture industry has overall form maintains its integrity. This allows conscious choices must be made to salvage played a significant role in the architects to preserve valued design aesthetics our planet. degradation of our environment, it also while still reaping the bioclimatic benefits. possesses the power to lead the way in The sector contributes to approximately Numerous examples illustrate the successful 39% of the world's total carbon footprint reversing this trend. integration of these concepts. and generates 30-40% of the world's total By prioritizing sustainability, architects solid waste; Unsustainable extraction can create structures that not only stand practices of gravel, sand and timber lead to as testaments to human ingenuity but deforestation, soil erosion, and depletion also serve as beacons of environmental of natural habitats; The proliferation of responsibility. From green building heat-absorbing materials like asphalt and materials to energy-efficient designs, the concrete in urban construction contributes possibilities are vast. to the "urban heat island" effect; The Even animals that “architect” their own Casa Muxarabi (Image: Julia Totoli @Studio Heloisa production of cement is particularly homes design and build sustainably. It is Fogaca) energy- consuming and contributes to time for architects to weave sustainability into greenhouse gas emissions; This industry is the very fabric of their creations, forging a single-handedly responsible for climate path towards a greener, healthier future for change. all. The Language of African Traditional An Atlas of Another Architecture Architecture America To Understand your Masterpieces Preserving an Endangered Species n The Archi-topia Nana Akua Bema Appiah Nana Akua Bema Appiah Nana Akua Bema Appiah This book by Andrea Smitch This book, a general introduction to This architectural fiction puts the current provides students and professional African vernacular architecture is a architectural landscape of America and architects with the basic elements of documentation that records the rich in extension, the rest of the world under architectural design divided into architectural heritage of Africa, which microscopic scrutiny, bringing to life twenty-six comprehensible chapters is being wiped away by the rapid ‘Freedomland’, a fictional utopia of communal architecture. including an overview of how these evolution of most African countries elements have and can be used. written by Susan Denyer. Page 1 Wednesday, November 15, 2023  TAI #W3-1123 Elijah, Anyirinaang Disasters by Design Latest from Ghana and Africa Our future depends on how compassionate What do we do? Climate change triggered byhuman activities, is we are to our environment and how one influencer of natural disasters. From creative we are at successfully adapting to Disasters can be stopped through unpredidctable rain patterns to overflowing of the changes that are happening all around planning, engineering and architecture natural reservoirs leading to flooding. If there is us. Natural disasters cause significant connected to other skills and professions. a climate change then there is a need for a design The choice must be made to do so. change. Following design and building orders to community destruction, taking generations building orders to shape our built environment to recover from. And the disaster is people Designing like we care. Adopting climate for resilient disaster buildings. suffering, rather than how buildings are resilience projects, among others. affected by nature. Design professionals must come together to think and design systematically to tie the But the dilemma is whether these disasters pieces back together for a permanent and are natural disasters or human caused resilient environment, correcting our flaws disasters. Disasters are caused by longer- in planning and design for disaster term societal decisions taken with and prevention. without design professionals to avoid preparing for, mitigating damage from, When we aren't creating something that is reducing risk of, and planning for thinking about the future, we are creating environmental phenomena. something that we're going to have to fix The disaster is from society, not nature later. 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