Firm Profile

Full-service
design and
service
company
founded in 1955

1,800+ people
23 offices
worldwide

The HOK planning group

planning
landscape architecture
urban design

Planning

Landscape Architecture

Urban Design

Sustainable Design
Recognized Industry Leader in Sustainable Design 2009 #1 Green Design Firm by ENR
The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design, 2nd
Edition; and The Green Workplace

900+ LEED-accredited professionals

64 LEED-certified projects; 10 BREEAM rated
projects; 200+ additional projects pursuing
certification
Honored by the AIA Committee on the Environment
for six consecutive years for Top 10 Green
Projects list
Cited #1 as role models of green and sustainable
design - 2009 DesignIntelligence Sustainable
Design Survey

KAUST

KAUST

Net Zero Court Carbon Emissions Office Building Prototype St. Louis, Missouri

FIT
2010

what the FIT?

Need for systems thinking

Its all about

outcomea convergence
of software and
services underpinned
by the hardware.

--Sam Palmisano,
CEO IBM
[watch video]

One of the fundamental

problems is that we
dont look at
healthcare, education,
energy or
transportation grid as
investmentswe look at
them as costs.

Megaregions contain
over 70 percent of the
U.S. population and
economic growth in
networks of America's
densest, most
productive and most
complex regions.

--Dr. Denis Cortese,

--Petra Todorovich,

President and CEO, Mayo Clinic

[watch video]

America 2050
[watch video]

Food is a shared
necessity -- but also a
shared way of thinking,
argues Carolyn Steel.
Looking at food
networks offers an
unusual and
illuminating way to
explore how cities
evolved.

--Dr. Carolyn Steel,

Food Urbanist
[watch video]

Trends Towards Integration

A Womans Nation
changes everything.

--Maria Shriver,
First Lady, State of California
[more info]

FIT
2010

FIT Inspiration

Biomimicry Retreat

Our mission
is to deliver exceptional planning,
and design solutions
through the creative blending of
human need, environmental stewardship,
value creation,
science and art.

mal-adapted design:

design from nature

the conscious emulation

of natures genius

model

measure

mentor

Biomimicry is a new way of viewing and valuing nature, based not on what we can
extract from the natural world, but on what we can learn from it. ~ Janine Benyus

Lifes Principles is the foundation

3.85 billion years of

experience

30-100 million
species

=
Well-adapted
design

Shinkansen (bullet train)

Sto Lotusan

Urban structure
Infrastructure
Ecostructure

When the city and forest are functionally indistinguishable,

thats when well really be at home on this planet.

- Janine Benyus

"What would nature do?"

Lavasa

Building of the Future

Ecological Performance Standards

FIT
2010

the IT of FIT

Title
goes here
Developing
a FIT Methodology

FIT
2010

Place-Based

Biome Map

Understanding the ecological story of the place

FIT
2010

Rooted in Lifes Principles

Lifes Principles is the foundation

FIT
2010

All Things Considered

Framework and Methodology

A more Integrated and Inclusive relationship between Design + Data

Category

Triple Bottom Line Integration

Category

Function

Adds Functionality

Category

Function

Expectations + Goals

Expectations + Goals

Category

Partners

Function

Expectations + Goals

Partners

Category

Function

Expectations + Goals

Clear Indicators and Performance Metrics

Partners

Indicators

FIT
2010

Accountable

Category

Function

Expectations + Goals

Accountability + Feedback Loops

Partners

Indicators

Measure

12 FIT Demonstration Projects:

5 BIOMES

7 COUNTRIES

NEW CONSTRUCTION
AND RETROFIT

REGIONAL, NEW COMMUNITY,

BUILDING AND PARK SCALES

Location

Dasve

KAUST
Phase 1 Dasve Village

Dasve Village

Mugaon

Dasve Village

Lavasa: Ecological Performance Standards

Site

Lavasa: Eco. Performance Standards

Attuned to the place

Challenge Cities to Match the

Same Level of Ecosystem Services as the Native Ecosystem
Ecological Performance Standards (EPS)

water collection and

storage
# gallons/storm

Ecosystem services

solar gain and

reflectance
% albedo

carbon sequestration
# tons/acre

water filtration
% pollutants captured

Ecosystem services

evapo-transpiration
% rainfall returned

nitrogen and
phosphorous cycling
# tons/acre

biodiversity
% diversity of native
species

Ecosystem services

soil building
mm of soil created

temperature
degrees of cooling

Biodiversity: Floral
Biodiversity, Seed
Dispersal
Water: Rain interaction,
Water Retention,
Aquifer Recharge,
Evapo-transpiration

Light: Irradiance,
Spectral Composition,
Surface Albedo
Earth: Nutrient Cycle,
Decomposition Rate,
Carbon

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Mimicking Ecosystem

STL:

The Gift of a New Vision for a Rustbelt City

STL:

The Gift of a New Vision for a Rustbelt City

H O K

FIT Framework:

Convergence of Data + Design Thinking

STL: Ideas for New Industries

From Old Waste

STL:

The Gift of a New Vision for a Rustbelt City

STL:

The Gift of a New Vision for a Rustbelt City

STL: Ideas for New Industries

From Old Waste

STL: Ideas for New Industries

From Old Waste

STL: Ideas for New Industries

From Old Waste

STL: Ideas for New Industries

From Old Waste

STL: Ideas for New Industries

From Old Waste

Great Rivers Greenway St. Louis Region

KHED SEZ

KHED SEZ


Gathering Space

polar

FIT
2010

subtropical
rainforest

monsoon
forest

dry steppe

semiarid
desert

tree
savanna

Exploring Lifes Principles for Organizations

Global
Future

Can Biomimicry build a better organization?

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