SU+RE:

Sustainable + Resilient
Design Systems

Guest-edited by
JOHN NASTASI,
ED MAY AND
CLARKE SNELL

ARCHITECTURAL
DESIGN

January/February 2018
Profile No 251
 SU+RE: Sustainable + Resilient Design Systems 01/2018

Introduction
About the
Guest-Editors
Climate Change is Unsustainability
John Nastasi,
the New Gravity and the
Ed May and
Clarke Snell
Clarke Snell
06
Architecture
05
of Efficiency
Graham S Wright
16
Resilient Design
‘Systems Thinking’
as a Response to
Climate Change Global Responses
Claire Weisz
to Local Conditions
24 Sustainability and
Resilience are Nowhere
the Same
Alexandros Washburn
ZGF Architects, 32
Innovation Center,
Rocky Mountain Institute,
Basalt,
Colorado, ‘Global Warming
2015
is Real’
Superstorm Sandy,
Stevens and the SU+RE
House
John Nastasi
40

High-Performance
Enclosures Practical Resilience
Designing for Comfort, Low-Tech Plug-and-
Durability and Play Innovation in the
Sustainability SU+RE House

Clarke Snell
Ken Levenson 56
48

SU+RE Power
Energy Independence and
the Sustainable Resilient
Sun
Modelling to Clarke Snell and
Alex Carpenter
Barry Price Drive Design 64
Architecture,
Cabin 3000, Honing the SU+RE House
New York State,
2016
through Performance
Simulations

Ed May
72

ISSN 0003-8504
2 ISBN 978 1119 379515
 Guest-edited by John Nastasi, Ed May and Clarke Snell

Defining
Environments
Understanding Architectural
Performance through
BIG,
Modelling, Simulation and
Villa GUG, Visualisation
Aalborg,
Denmark,
due for Brady Peters
completion 82
2018

Data Buildings
Sensor Feedback in
Sustainable Design
Workflows
Terri Peters
92

Building Physics, Design,

and the Collaborative
Build
Climate Change
Sustainability and Resilience and the Bottom
in Architectural Education
Line
Karin Stieldorf
Delivering Sustainable
102
Buildings at Market Rate

Adam Cohen and

Clarke Snell
110

Energy
and Design
Studio Gang,
Solar Carve
Tower, New York,

Criticism due for

completion 2019

Is It Time for a New Measure

of Beauty?

Bronwyn Barry
116
Counterpoint
Aim High
Pressing for a Radical
and Global Approach to
Sustainable Design
The Design of Craig Robertson
Public Policy 128

Sustainability and
Resilience at the City Scale
Contributors
Ann Holtzman 134
122

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