Philip Oldfield
@SustainableTall
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Head of School of Built Environment at UNSW Sydney and Prof of Architecture. Writer, researcher & teacher, tall buildings, housing, embodied carbon, cities
Sydney
Joined February 2012
Of course, it’s a low carbon Timber structure as well!
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All the apartments also have access to cross ventilation for free cooling
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Want to stop overheating?. We need more blinds and shading on apartments and balconies!!!. This is a beautiful new apartment building in Barcelona by Bunyesc Architects
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How Brisbane’s addition to sprawl could see it become a 200km wide city.
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5 kgCO2e / year is a whole life cycle carbon of 300 kgCO2e over 60 years. As a comparison. A typical Australian detached home has an upfront embodied carbon of 650 kgCO2e just to get it built - and that’s before you’ve even turned a light switch on!.
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Pretty much everything solid is timber, which is also designed for disassembly.
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The planning is a simple courtyard. All homes get access to natural light and ventilation.
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The Ripple Residence will have 115 apartments, with a mass timber structure and a large number of materials upcycled form a local demolished building
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How do you create apartments that have a carbon footprint of only 5 kgCO2e/year including both operational and embodied emissions? . This is what Henning Larsen are doing in Denmark - a 🧵
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RT @Victoria_Spratt: Homelessness Minister Rushana Ali has resigned following my report @theipaper, which revealed:. She ejected four tenan….
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Labour’s Rushanara Ali accused of ‘staggering hypocrisy’ after relisting property for £700 more a month
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Now just put 6 of them on top of each other!.
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Mass timber construction and net zero energy performance too - remarkable. By Comamala Ismail.
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The Swiss seem to make even the most mundane building types with a remarkable quality . This is a *traffic control centre* in a regional Swiss town of 40,000 people.
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RETVRN.
oh no, Prosper, Texas, has built a big box high school that uses a facade to present itself as the Parthenon
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I was mesmerised by this when I was a student. Bernard Tschumi’s Le Fresnoy Art School revisited after 30 years by @ArchReview . Such a dramatic way to retain existing buildings and create new spaces .
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Loving the combination of a curved living space and brickwork . Apartments in Shiraz, Iran by Ashari Architects
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I do like the colour scheme here! . Design for apartments in Esfahan, Iran, by Tayebah Amini
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