As economic and environmental factors have a greater influence on the design process, "'we as architects must become activists' says Enric Ruiz-Geli, founding principal of Cloud9 architects."
"'It's not about square meters, or budget, or how big your building is, but about how deep your ideas are, your research, your technology-and how social is the result,' Mr. Ruiz-Geli says."
The Wall Street Journal's Natalia Rachlin reported and wrote this story.
Comments
Living Architecture??
Some of these projects are worse than others.
Judging from the picture, being in the Sandal Magna Community Primary School will feel like being in a prison. The architect does not understand the very basic point that large expanses of blank walls feel oppressive.
Likewise, being in SeARCH's underground buildings will feel like being in a prison. But the funniest thing about their picture of an underground alpine hotel is that it has no parking and no access roads - not even pedestrian paths. There is just a pure white landscape of snow with a few windows peaking out. Add its roads and parking to the picture, and this project would not look as sustainable as the architect claims.
Charles Siegel