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“ Today we are more aware of global limits, so we question whether the priorities of consumption, carbon, comfort, and commercialization need to be rebalanced.” 4
materials and forms, and curtailing energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The architects refused to accept even the best available technology for the building’s air-conditioning system; they worked with specialists to design a hybrid system estimated to be at least thirty percent more efficient than anything on the market. Innovators don’t just know when there is a better way; they are clever enough to find it, and determined enough to build it. Over the past forty to fifty years, the construction industry has become highly industrialized, using ever more resource-intensive materials and processes. The developments made during these years were impressive improvements for convenience and commercialization, with little regard for resource consumption or carbon emissions. Today we are more aware of global limits, so we question whether the priorities of consumption, carbon, comfort, and commercialization need to be rebalanced. Seeking this balance is precisely what the client and architect do in this project. The client, Development Alternatives, makes the case for a way of building using natural, low-CO 2 materials and for sensibly adjusting expectations of indoor thermal comfort in buildings, for the sake of planetary health. Architect Ashok Lall draws on building traditions that industrialization and commercialization has neglected. He seeks not to revive tradition, but to redefine old methods in the contemporary context. He embraces tradition not because of the past, but for the sake of the future. 5
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changing the world over, as people
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Books in this series 1 Measuring up
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A series of symposiums for academia
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