igbc 2014 - jason pomeroy, pomeroy studio
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KEEPING A LID ON PANDORA’S BOXINTERNATIONAL GREEN BUILDING CONFERENCE (IGBC) 2014PROF. JASON POMEROYSETTING THE VISION FOR SUSTAINABILITY
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Pandora – Goddess of invention
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Pandora’s box
Pandora – Goddess of invention
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Pandora came to stand for man-made
things that run the risk of continual
harm
Pandora’s box
Pandora – Goddess of invention
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The consequences of opening‘pandora’s box’
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“When you see something that is technically sweet, you
go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success.
That is the way it was withthe atomic bomb”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Ruins of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb blast
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We face on a daily basis our own Pandora’s box
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Rapid urbanization, population increase and the privatization of space has seen the rise of the
concrete jungle
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’Getting things built’without considering the
consequences of ones actions
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The builder and the artist need to come together to evaluate the
lessons from what has been built in the past, to what can be designed and executed today, and what its
impact will be in the future
Social
Economic
Environmental
Spatial
Cultural
Technological
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The BAU model(unresolved building)
Absence of sustainable process
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“Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war
with my time, with history, with all authority that residesin fixed and
frightened forms”
Lebbeus Woods
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The balance between the builder and the artist will
similarly temper the flights of fancy with the pragmatic; the
unresolved with the resolved. In this way, we should similarly be able to
find a middleground within our built
environment
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IDEA HOUSEMALAYSIA
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B HOUSESINGAPORE
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NOVALICHESPHILIPPINES
“THE WHOLE IS GREATER THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS”INTERNATIONAL GREEN BUILDING CONFERENCE (IGBC) 2014PROF. JASON POMEROYTHE WAY FORWARD - DEEPENING SPECIALISATION WHILE ENHANCING INTEGRATION
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Reliquary boxOak _ 1100-50Kunstgew erbemuseum, Berlin
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Preparation of crossAgnolo Gaddi (around 1380)Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence
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SalieraBenvenuto Cellini (1540-1543)Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Spanish IIAntonio Stradivari (17th and 18th centuries)Palacio Real, Madrid
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Crystal PalaceJoseph Paxton (19th century)London, UK
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RED productsCollaboration between Apple and industrial designer Marc Newson (21st century)
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FIAT 500Collaboration between FIAT and GUCCI(21st century)
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Ocean EmeraldCollaboration between YachtPlus andFoster + Partners (21st century)
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CON.TRACTOR n. - person or firm that does jobs especially construction under contract
(Oxford dictionary 1992)
CONTRACTOR Latin -to pull together