INTEGRATED DESIGN PROCESS: 300-level
SESSION 31
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Thursday, September 30, 2010 – 11:00am – Metro 2B
ABSTRACT:
The fundamentals of phytoremediation and bioremediation technologies in the built environment as well as three distinct integration strategies: as interior deployment, as integrated into the building enclosure, and as exterior deployment.
SPEAKERS:
Jason Vollen, Principal Investigator, Center for Architecture Science and Ecology, Associate Professor of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rob Rothblatt, Associate Director, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Paul Mankiewicz, Executive Director, Gaia Institute
Chris Garvin, Partner, Terrapin Bright Green
DESCRIPTION:
Plants in buildings have aesthetic, physiological and psychological benefits that have been qualified and increasingly quantified in various ways. An emerging benefit of the integration of next generation living systems is as strategies for environmental remediation and energy reduction. In addition to discussing the fundamentals of phytoremediation and bioremediation technologies in the built environment, this session will discuss three distinct integration strategies: as interior deployment, as integrated into the building enclosure, and as exterior deployment.
- The Active Modular Phytoremediation (AMP) System, developed by CASE and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is an interior deployment purposed to improve indoor air quality and reduce the energy costs associated with HVAC systems. The first deployment for the AMP System will be in the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP designed Public Safety Answering Center (PSAC) II Facility located in the Bronx and will be discussed in detail regarding the critical mission of PSAC II and the value of integrating living systems as well as the challenged of integrating first time deployments.
- Case studies developed by Terrapin Bright Green will be used to discuss the integration of livings systems into the building enclosure, taking the traditional doublewalled building envelope and transforming it with biophilic elements while challenging the self-imposed limits of what a building envelop can achieve to increase a building’s sustainability and human comfort.
- Gaia Institutes’ El Jardín del Paraíso Stormwater Capture Park is an exterior deployment that reclaims green space for the city while sequestering lead contamination. It is exemplary of several projects currently undertaken by the Gaia Institute that showcase bioremediation with an increase in biodiversity.
