Meet Us at Regenerative Metropolis ’24
DATE: Friday, September 27, 2024
TIME: 9:00 A.M. – 7:00 P.M. (EST) – Door opens at 8:45 A.M.
VENUE: Starr Foundation, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10011
2:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M. | Urban Projects
“Earthshot” low emission construction with assemblies optimized for design-for-disassembly:
Henning Larsen Architects and the Nordic developer NREP have combined forces in an “earthshot” multi-story residential project, a project that challenges the Danish low carbon requirements and delivers open-source solutions for best practice low emission construction with assemblies optimized for design-for-disassembly.
Learning objectives:
- Gain familiarity with the low carbon emission requirements in the Danish building code.
- Understand the ambitions and proactive initiatives of the Earthshot project.
- Understand drivers and principles of design for disassembly, incl. specific takeaways as shown in the project details.
- Learn a strategic process to reduce the embodied carbon in an urban residential project starting in the early design phase.
With the aim of stimulating biodiversity and creating an accessible sense of community, our design for the new upper secondary school and VID university college in Oslo’s Diakonhjemmet Hage integrates hybrid timber construction, flexible activation, rainwater management, as well as green roofs and façades.
Martha Lewis – Head of Materials, Architect | Henning Larsen Architects
Martha is Head of Materials at Henning Larsen, where she established a material database detailing healthy, ethical, and environmentally tenable materials and has launched the carbon literacy course, “Unboxing Carbon”. Formerly, as a member of the Buildings as Material Banks shareholders network, Martha worked to establish an EU material passport. She is currently involved in establishing a European building material declaration. Martha represents the Danish Association of Architectural Firms in the CEN350 Committee, where she aims to establish Circularity Standards. In 2016, she participated in the advisory team for the Danish EPA’s ‘Undesirable Substances in Sustainable Buildings’ group and has published several conference papers on hazardous content in Danish and Nordic building products. She has been recognised with Building Green’s ‘Sustainable Element’ person of the year prize and holds a MArch in Architectural Design and a BA in History.
About Us
The way we see it, design is about seeing tomorrow as a space of opportunity and impact.
It asks us to confront the seemingly endless challenges the world currently faces and to carefully reimagine our built environment with thoughtful and creative vigor. To us, this stems from the understanding that a desirable future is not a destination, but rather an ongoing project – a steady and deliberate paradigm shift.
