9
Mar
2010
building performance quiz
Finally it is launched!!
There have been a lot of long nights of faffing about with learning about the technology that runs the internet, But now the building performance quiz is live, working reasonably well in most browsers, and has started producing results!
So “what is it?” I hear you ask!
There are a couple of reasons that I can’t tell you everything about it just yet. But for now it is a quiz that shows up what you know and don’t know about designing for building performance within the emerging low carbon economy.
The key thing is that a lot of people have a go at the quiz, so if you have a screen, and some time, then please do it, and if you have all of the above, and friends, then send it to all of them and beg them to do it too. Please!!!
have a go!
2
Mar
2010
tends towards zero carbon
There are a few things that I want you to hold in your mind for a second.
- In mathematical notation ? stands in for ‘tends to‘.
- In ‘optimisation‘ the focus is on the approach to optimum, and therefore a much better description is ‘improvement’.
Now on with the meat of this story.
18
Jun
2009
hand to mouth video
This is a five minute documentary video of first Hand to Mouth event. June 29th, 2008, Meat Market, Melbourne.
It was organised by Boo Chapple and Adele Varcoe, and when I get a bit longer to gush about how amazing it was, i’ll tell more. In the meantime, look here!
3
Apr
2009
Go Kawakita’s thesis – genetic algorithms in ecotect
Go Kawakita now works for Foster & Partners, but last year I was one of his thesis supervisors when he was doing his masters in energy efficient & sustainable design at Oxford Brookes.
His thesis was about the use of evolutionary algorithms to explore design options, more specifically with evaluation driven by environmental parameters. His project work was focused around finding widow configurations that satisfied certain lighting criteria, using ecotect analysis as the fitness evaluation.
He doesn’t have any server space, so I’m putting his work up here.
this is the thesis pdf (low res raster images for small file)
8
Jan
2009
mushroom carpark
I just found a piece of my work published on the VEIL website!
It’s a proposal to reuse multistory carparks as mushroom farms until they are demolished and replaced with something more usefull than inner city parking.
There is more detail on the VEIL site about the project.
