Presentation Title
P-07 Re-Purposeful Sustainable Design: Standard Buildings and Ethics of Care
Presenter Status
Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Interior Design
Preferred Session
Poster Session
Location
Buller Hall
Start Date
3-11-2017 2:00 PM
End Date
3-11-2017 3:00 PM
Presentation Abstract
A common project problem statement from a community design perspective asks, “How do you take an existing, ‘tired’ building whose care-taking has waned over the years, and revive the structure to one in which owner, user, and community find a common ‘context of care’?” The design team is challenged to determine how each project gives them an opportunity to express the value of design in the contexts of client, community, and profession. The majority of our communities’ building stock is composed of numerous projects of modest scale and budget. Most existing buildings, although modest in scale, hold a potential value that can only be actualized within a context of care.
As the maxim suggests, “people don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.” Every project needs to be grounded in this aspect of care if it is to become or remain sustainable. It is an ethical responsibility of the design community to generate designs and constructed environments that identify and foster a “standard of caring” within the context for of their projects. This presentation explores project design as an ethical response within a professional standard of care. A specific project design is presented as a case study for evaluation in a sustainable matrix that includes criteria of care.
P-07 Re-Purposeful Sustainable Design: Standard Buildings and Ethics of Care
Buller Hall
A common project problem statement from a community design perspective asks, “How do you take an existing, ‘tired’ building whose care-taking has waned over the years, and revive the structure to one in which owner, user, and community find a common ‘context of care’?” The design team is challenged to determine how each project gives them an opportunity to express the value of design in the contexts of client, community, and profession. The majority of our communities’ building stock is composed of numerous projects of modest scale and budget. Most existing buildings, although modest in scale, hold a potential value that can only be actualized within a context of care.
As the maxim suggests, “people don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.” Every project needs to be grounded in this aspect of care if it is to become or remain sustainable. It is an ethical responsibility of the design community to generate designs and constructed environments that identify and foster a “standard of caring” within the context for of their projects. This presentation explores project design as an ethical response within a professional standard of care. A specific project design is presented as a case study for evaluation in a sustainable matrix that includes criteria of care.