Innovating to Zero: Architecture in a Zero Concept World

Innovating to Zero:
Architecture in a Zero Concept World
Jeff Mosher
Jason-Emery Groën
What if we developed a new approach to our
workspace?
Innovating to Zero:
Architecture in a Zero
Concept World
0 I. History of Zero
0 Precedent and Perspective
0 II. Convergence
0 Contemporary Concerns
III. Emerging Technologies
0 Aspirational Approaches
IV. Designing For and Beyond Zero
Implementation
Learning Objectives
The History of Zero
Precedent and Perspective
Part i
sunya
शू य
The “invention” of Zero
sifir
‫صفر‬
The “invention” of Zero
cifra
O
The “invention” of Zero
zephyrum
O
The “invention” of Zero
zero
Ø
The “invention” of Zero
The adoption of
Zero in Mathematics
Great Mosque of
Kairouan, Tunisia
9th Century AD
Philosophical &
Religious Concepts Zero
Manduka Wastu Purusha Mandala
Layout for Hindu Temples
Sunya,
Bindu and Mandalas
When One made love
to Zero, spheres
embraced their arches
and prime numbers
caught their breathe
Raymond Queneau
Your task Roman, is this:
To rule the people. This is
your special genius, to
force the habits of peace,
o spare the conquered, to
subdue the proud
Virgil
Right where the compression forces are the greatest
at the top of the dome in the Pantheon, Roman
architects chose to have nothing but air.
The Western World
Equilibrium, Entropy,
Natural Systems
Ancient Living Machines
(North)
American Dreams
Growth for the sake of
growth is the ideology of
the cancer cell
Edward Abbey
The Growth Paradigm
Alternative Economies
Great ends cannot be
attained by base means.
You’ve proved that in all
our social upheavals. The
eanness and inhumanity of
he means make your mean
and inhuman and make the
end unattainable
Wilhelm Reich
Means versus Objectives
Zero what ?
hat Does Designing to Zero Mean for YOU?
A. Net-Zero Energy
B. Net-Zero Energy & Water
C. Self-Sufficiency
D. Carbon Neutral Design
E. Zero Waste
F. Zero Footprint
Zero what ?
Boundaries
Why it matters
Convergence
Contemporary Concerns
Part ii
Net Zero Building
Early Adopters
Early Adopters
Early Adopters
Early Adopters
Renewable
Energy Adoption
We are seeking another basic
outlook: the world as an
organization. This would
profoundly change categories
of our thinking and influence
our practical attitudes. We must
envision the biosphere as a
whole with mutually reinforcing
or mutually destructive interdependencies.
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Systems Theory
y ‘thing’ is based on energy. Energy is the
ce of all things, all value, and all actions of
n beings in nature. This simple truth, long
known to scientists and engineers, has
rally been omitted from most education in
this century.
Howard Thomas Odum
Systems Theory
Biomimicry
The Giant
Amazon Water Lilly &
The Crystal Palace
Artificial Intelligence
& Automation
Autonomous Vehicles
Leapfrogging
Hyper-connectivity
Virtual
Augmented Reality
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A Strange Storm
Emerging
Technologies
Aspirational Approaches
Part iii
Intelligent Materials
Self-Assembling Nanobots
Clean Energy
Energy Storage Advances
Future Transit
Building Automation
Human Needs
Designing for and
beyond Zero
Implementation
Part iv
Net Zero Today
Carbon Neutral Building
Regenerative Design
1
Study #1
Case Case
Study
2
Study #2
Case Case
Study
3
Study #3
Case Case
Study
If life is a process of selfustaining action, then this is
he distinctly human mode of
on and survival: To think-to
duce-to meet the challenges
existence by a never ending
effort of inventiveness
Ayn Rand
Learning to Fly
Closing Thoughts