ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 355

Fri Oct 26 09:50:25 PDT 2007

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LIVING STEEL COMPETITION 2007
    by ArchitectureWeek
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	Living Steel has announced the three winners of its
	second International Architecture Competition for
	Sustainable Housing. The consortium of steel companies
	challenged participants to design innovative,
	resource-efficient housing solutions using steel.

	The competition targeted three locations for affordable-
    housing prototypes: Recife, Brazil; Wuhan, China; and the 
	Thames Gateway area on the east side of London. Brazilian 
	firm Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados won for its 
	Recife project, Knafo Klimor Architects of Israel won the 
	China component of the competition, and British firm Cartwright
	Pickard Architects won for its Thames Gateway prototype.

	The worldwide need for sustainable housing is staggering.
	According to Living Steel, an average of over 4,000
	housing units would need to be constructed ever hour for
	the next 25 years to meet needs of the burgeoning world
	population. Potential benefits of steel include
	recyclability and suitability for precise prefabrication
	off site.

	Essential Brazil
	The competition program for Brazil asked firms to design
	an apartment building for low-income families in Recife,
	a fast-growing eastern port city with a population of 1.5
	million. The project site, which is slated for a number
	of comparable buildings, is located about seven
	kilometers (4.3 miles) from the downtown core. The
	low-rise building project was to include 16 two-bedroom
	units averaging 50 square meters (540 square feet) each,
	as well as a playground, swimming pool, and child-care
	center, at a target cost of just US$300 per square meter
	($28 per square foot).
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Greener Green Roofs
    by Christian Werthmann
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	The sedum roofs of today symbolize performance-oriented
	green roof design.  Like fine-tuned engines, they run on
	leaner artificial substrates with almost no organic
	matter; volcanic rock or expanded shale, baked at 2000
	degrees Fahrenheit (1093 degrees Celsius), make the
	substrates lighter and soil depths as thin as possible.

	They seem to be race cars in the fleet of green roofs o
	maximum performance paired with minimum weight. The
	simple soil mixtures and roof sections of the early days
	of green roofs developed into multilayered complex
	systems supporting the homogenous surface of succulents.
	The unkempt and rough gave way to the groomed and
	cultivated, reminiscent of the unrelenting beauty of
	agricultural fields.
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People and Places
    by Nancy Novitski
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	NAC|Architecture in Seattle, Washington -- FXFOWLE
	Architects, PC in Greater Noida, India -- Callison in
	Dallas, Texas -- Burt Hill and Andropogon Associates, Ltd.
	in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- KKE Architects, Inc. in
	Minneapolis, Minnesota -- Clark & Green in Lenox,
	Massachusetts -- NBBJ in Orange, California -- design:x in
	West Hollywood, California -- Perkins + Will and Guenther
	5 Architects in New York, New York...
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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
     Neoclassical glazed door with arched transom window (DW-078)
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This Week's Quiz -	
	How fast will sound travel in a room with normal air pressure? 
	Answer in feet per second, or meters per second.
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Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	Steel heated to about 752 degrees Farenheit (400 degrees
	Celsius) turns a red that is visible in the dark. At 975
	degrees Farenheit (524 degrees Celsius), the same steel
	would glow visibly during the daylight. At what
	temperature would the steel turn white with heat?
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