Regional and Urban Design Committee

Webinar: Resilient Design: The Regional and Urban Scale

  • 1.  Webinar: Resilient Design: The Regional and Urban Scale

    Posted 09-18-2014 01:13 PM
    Join RUDC for our upcoming webinar! Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))

    The historic foundation of the architectural and planning profession began with the designing of buildings and cities that fit and function with its location - its place, its climate. Climate change impacts, along with exponential population growth and the over consumption of resources associated with that growth, is rapidly degrading the system balance, economic stability and our quality of life. These challenges stress the natural systems ability to provide the basic services essential for life - clean water, air and a productive soil.

    For thousands of years architects have been ingenious in their ability to design solutions that solve for environmental challenges. recent examples are the green and sustainable design movement focused on solving challenges of creating healthy, energy efficient buildings.

    Resilient design includes those missions but also includes the designs ability to adapt to changing conditions, those conditions that are greater than the building itself. In general systems theory the challenge is to start with understanding the system larger than the project - for example when working on a buildings site design first learn the urban pattern it is part of.

    Resilient design is a design initiative and philosophy that is informed by the larger system. region to urban, urban to neighborhood, neighborhood to architecture each informed by one another. Resilient design builds on our professions history by promoting adaptive and adoptive solutions to architecture and the urban and regional scale - design challenges that are responsive to dynamic and changing conditions.

    • Define community-based disaster resilience for the built environment
    • Identify consistent performance goals and metrics for buildings and infrastructure and lifeline systems to enhance community resilience,
    • Identify existing standards, codes, guidelines, and tools that can be implemented to enhance resilience, and identify gaps in current standards, codes, and tools that if successfully addressed, can lead to enhanced resilience.

    This webinar is free for AIA members and $39.99 for non-members.
    This course is worth 1 LU.



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    Lynnea Garrett
    Manager, Knowledge Communities
    The American Institute of Architects
    Washington DC
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