Capítulo 3: Forma y energía

I would agree with the concept of form

follows energy but you would have to

redefine energy to me it's not just the

energy of the Sun it's of the energy of

the earth it's human energy and atactic

transcendent energy energy which we

don't even have an absent energy so yes

form follows energy but the energy is a

vast symbol that stands for such a

complex thought

once upon a time where I would say form

follows the divine and that will have

been defined as the energy of space the

energy of a city we don't have those

vocabularies but if you allow the word

energy to be wide enough to cover

everything from the most human most

intimate most vulnerable to the most

technical and scientific I would say yes

and I'm working on a project with

Richard Leakey the great anthropologist

in Africa at the origins of mankind at

econo North Kenya where we all come from

all the human DNA comes from this area

we are thinking how evolution and the

environment in are intertwined and how

we are changing and how the technology

is changing us and are we going to

become only brains connected to some

artificial intelligence well I think in

the future buildings not necessarily

because architects or people want them

to but will have to be shaped to use

minimum energy minimum you'll find

buildings with as time goes on with less

glass

in less transparency heavier insulation

I think they will they will start to be

shaped much more by energy

considerations own and trying to make

the building a common economic to run

we've reached a sort of impasse in terms

of ventilating buildings where they're

so sealed that you can hardly breathe

and I think there's a movement to bring

fresh air into buildings to make them

open aboard it's just a question of

movement finding ways of getting our

moving through buildings which saves you

know almost amount of energy over a

sealed air conditioned building which is

piling huge amounts of energy in simply

to achieve the temperature which is

directly outside and for instance that

they explode 2020 in Dubai we have got

the energy pavilion to do whether we can

make it tenable to live in the desert

both from the energy point of view and

from the sustainability point of view

because of having enough water to live

on

one follows not just energy but post a

lot of things and you have to bear in

mind that a lot of vertical high tech

architects being the energy and water

are the only key issues for them what

other aspects issues as well form

doesn't just follow energy form follows

of course of other things our work is to

bring ecology we're designing but there

are fundamental differences we need two

disciplines designing has to do with

fulfilling set of problems

we said with a project and designing has

to do with efficiency has to be

aesthetic design first of all has to be

functional it doesn't work this in

useless design so designers can work as

we folks noticed a postgraduate second

criteria that designers to meet the

requirements of society in a local

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it's the first knocking point for all

our language has to make people happy

and that to me is one of the most

important criteria besides making Queen

making low energy taking water savings

to start with people how to make that

happen

I think if I do form follows energy I

might say make it make the walls really

thick with insulation and a small window

and it's good you're gonna use less

energy but I could actually go what

would I say with one

if the the home follows function is true

define your function functions are are

more complex it's never just one

function I want you to be comfortable I

want you to feel happy and be in touch

with nature I want you to feel

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satisfied and I don't want you to use

more energy than necessary and

definitely don't get energy from from

sources that would somehow reduce other

people's quality of life now and in the

future I think it should all be

appropriate and adequate adequate

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time that we say well that's that's a

given we don't know almost don't know

how to build without using using

function to drive form what we need to

do is somehow bring that energy context

back into the equation which I think has

been long lost since we've had easy

access to energy at a time when when it

was it was much harder energy wasn't

transported it wasn't it wasn't it

wasn't supplied to every every Wehling

every every

every settlement I think they knew were

quite careful with how much energy we

used years and it's certainly something

I've made I've made my my quest is to

try and make sure the buildings are

responding to to energy energy becomes a

big driver

it isn't just energy in its full sense

but it's it's certainly the negative

impacts of of excessive energy let's put

it that way

so a zero carbon building just putting

carbon into the equation and you very

clearly see how imagery energy has had a

massive influence on form yet still

provides the function which as I say we

should easily be capable to do we don't

need many lessons for that if you take a

residential building in a soft

California climate people control

daylight you can control solar gain you

want to control heat loss in ways that

are purely energy informed driven but

anyways less than 50% of the year that

you can use passive techniques to

control the internal climate the systems

are likely to have a stronger influence

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