Dave Foley's presentation in the Whole Systems in Action Track at NESEA's Building Energy 2010

1. Metapatterns: Lessons
David Foley
Holland & Foley Architecture, LLC
232 Beech Hill Rd.
Northport, Maine 04849
http://www.hollandandfoley.com
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2. Thank You, Tyler! And Amelia!
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3. Green Design Not New
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4. Profligate Design Not New
Conceive the Image • Command the Resources
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5. Triumph
Dominance
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6. Harmony
Coexistence
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7. 4.5 Billion-Year Lesson
Development Without Growth
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8. Pattern • Converging Form
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9. Cells: Borders
Contain Or Die • Exchange Or Die
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10. Differentiation
No Difference • No Information
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11. Relationship
Orient, Exchange By Difference
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12. Differentiate
Indoors/Outdoors • Sleeping/Living
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13. Differentiate • Relate
“Trinary:” Figure • Ground • Relationship
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14. Mugs • Contain & Relate
Foot/Table • Handle/Hand • Rim/Lip
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15. Border • Relationship • Design
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16. Balance • Contain & Relate
Too Much Interchange
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17. Balance • Contain & Relate
Not Enough Interchange
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18. Balance • Contain & Relate
Optimal Relationships
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19. Pattern: Repeating Relationship
Converges On Solution
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20. Patterns • Many Scales
City/Country Fingers Pools & Streams Entry Transition
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21. Border • Relationship • Quality
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22. Improve “Trinary” • Improve Design
(Joachim Eble, Architect)
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23. Fractals Useful
Same Area •
Articulate
Increased
The Edge
Border
(Koch Diagram)
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24. Interchange • Fractal Border
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25. Design Separation & Interchange
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26. Design Separation & Interchange
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27. Fractals Iterate
Repeating Rules At Finer Scale
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28. We Iterate
Details Each
From Detail A
Wholes Whole
Instructions Feedback
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29. Evolution Iterates
Replication • Variation • Selection • Fitness Tests
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30. Design Iterates
Fitness Tests?
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31. Fitness Tests
Life-Cycle Finance Standards
Past Mistakes
Foresight
Core Values
Design Unfolds From Goals
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32. Goals • Metrics
Develop reference case
Develop low-energy case
Develop Brief Rank order strategies Pre-design
Initial strategy selection
Set performance goals
Low-Energy Case (all strategies) 38.0
35.1
9 cost effective strategies
22.7 22.7
8.7
6.9
kBtu / ft²
From “Designing Low Energy 4.1 4.0
2.6
Buildings Using Energy-10”, Douglas 1.5
Balcomb et. al.
Heating Cooling Lights Other Total
ANNUAL ENERGY USE
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33. Court Feedback
Collaborate • Simulate • Verify
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34. Termite Mounds • Feedback
Embodied Process: Move Soil Toward Wind, Away From Heat
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35. Termites • Fungi • Symbiosis
Embodied Process: CO2 Helps Preferred Fungi
“A Superorganism’s Fuzzy Boundaries” • J. Scott Turner
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36. Process Matters
What It Is • IS How It’s Made
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37. Describing Vs. Generating
End Result
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B
T.O. LOFT T.O. LOFT
1x4 Superfascia
On 1x8 Fascia
C
C
D
5/4x6 Corner,
B
Frieze & Splash Bd.s A
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6 Siding: Red Cedar
T.O. 2ND FLR Clapboards, 4" T.O. 2ND FLR
Note: Furr Down Porch Exposure; Pri me &
Ceiling 1'- 0" Below Backprime W/
Bottom Of Floor Oil/Alkyd Primer; Nail
Joists; Frame W/ 2x6 W/ Stainless Steel
KD @ 24" O.C. 5/4x4 Trim Siding Na ils
A @ Windows & A 1x4 Superrake
Doors (Typ.) On 1x8 Rake F
E G
Porch Deck: 5/4x6
Port Orford Cedar On
2x8 P T @ 16" O.C.
T.O. 1ST FLR T.O. 1ST FLR
T.O. DECK T.O. DECK
5/4x6 Splash Board W/ Alum. Drip Cap
Porch Posts: 4x4
PT Cased In 1-b y
Trim To 5"x5"
1. 2.
NORTH ELEVATION • SCALE: 1/4" = 1'-0" EAST ELEVATION • SCALE: 1/4" = 1'-0"
Roofing: Standing Seam Metal, e.g. "Galvalume" W/
Factory-Applied Finish, In stalled By Qualified
Professional; ALTERNATE: "Iko" Asphalt Roofing
Installed Per Mftr.'s Spec.'s; Verify Color W/ Owners
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NOTE: Adjust Lower Rafter Layout
So Meeting Point With Upper
12 Rafte rs Is At The Overhang
Distance Of The Upper Rafters On
12 The Opposi te Roof Face
B
T.O. LOFT T.O. LOFT
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C
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H H 12
12 6
6
T.O. 2ND FLR T.O. 2ND FLR
MDO Panels
G E
E E E E
T.O. 1ST FLR T.O. 1ST FLR
T.O. DECK T.O. DECK
SOUTH ELEVATION • SCALE: 1/4" = 1'-0" WEST ELEVATION • SCALE: 1/4" = 1'-0"
3. 4.
Process
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38. Process • Performance
Sequence •
Relationships
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39. Managing Wholes
J. A. Foley et al., Science 309, 570 -574 (2005) Published by AAAS
Multiple Goals • Cascades • Stacking
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40. Rice Paddies
Just For Rice?
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41. The Power of Duck
(Takao Furuno)
Stacking Functions Cascade Of Benefits
Polyculture: Rice, Ducks, Fish, Fruit,Vegetables
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42. Problem Or Opportunity?
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43. Multiple Niches
Methane Reduced, Diversity Increased
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44. Cycles & Time
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45. Design • Throughput • Flow
“Waste Systems”
50%
Sources & Sinks
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46. Time-Lapse Movies
Envision Flows
See
Consequences
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47. Time-Lapse Movies
Wasteful + Harmful = Stupid
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48. Shearing Layers
D4D
How Buildings Learn • Design For Deconstruction
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49. Where’s the Wealth?
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50. What’s Wealth? • What’s Waste?
Sources & Sinks • Where Is “Away?”
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51. Possible? • Necessary?
Concentrating Solar • Zinc • CO2 • Hydrocarbons
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52. Channeling Pogo
“WE ARE
SURROUNDED BY
INSURMOUNTABLE
OPPORTUNITIES”
Scarcity Or
Sufficiency?
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53. Leftover Space?
Unmet Opportunity?
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54. Knitting Space Together
• Differentiate/Relate •
• Create/Repair •
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55. All Space Positive
Function &
Beauty?
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56. Seeing the Opportunities
Borders
Relationships
Flows
Feedback
Process
Cycles
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57. Doing the Work
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58. Cultivating Reverence
Science is not about control. It
is about cultivating a perpetual
condition of wonder in the face
of something that forever
grows one step richer and
subtler than our latest theory
about it. It is about reverence,
not mastery.
- Richard Powers
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59. Things Don’t Have To Be Like This
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60. Design A Better World
Thank You
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