改进建筑60秒

栏目主持：叶扬

改进建筑60秒

Sixty Second Idea to Improve Architecture

栏目主持：叶扬

我们仿效BBC的广播节目“60秒改进世界”（Sixty Second Idea to Improve the World）推出了“改进建筑60秒”栏目，每期将在世界范围内采访两位人物，请他们就建筑、城市、景观、技术等相关问题在60秒的时间里讲出一个或两个有启发性、批判性甚至有争议性的观点。本栏目如实记录了他们的话，采访所拍摄的视频将会出现在我们的相关网页上。所述观点只代表嘉宾本人，与本杂志立场无关。

郝月

挪威驻华大使馆文化新闻主管

Carolina Harrysson

Head of Culture & Press, Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beijing

毕月

策展人、作家

北京国际设计周海外项目创意总监

Beatrice Leanza

Curator, Writer

Head of Overseas Program Bejiing Design Week

For my chance to speak 60 seconds about Architecture, I would like to talk about an idea that is not exactly new, but is a theme that's much discussed and studied in Norway and is continuously developing. That is sustainable, or low energy architecture.

It is estimated that 40% of the world's energy consumption is used within the building sector. And the building sector stands for about 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, which is more than all cars and airplanes worldwide omit together. This means that there's big potential for saving energy within the building sector.

The materials used, to which degree they are recycled, facility operations and, not the least, heating and cooling are important factors. For instance, in Norway, 60% of the energy used in residential houses is for heating and cooling.

So there are many opportunities for architects to find new and sustainable solutions for modern buildings.

Some might say that to ensure that a building is sustainable, it is enough to build a beautiful house that can stand for a long time. But nowadays there are many beautiful buildings, that also don't consume any energy. Some even create energy. Also, a lot of people residing in buildings that are built according to low energy building principles, reported that the natural regulation of heat and humidity creates a very healthy and comfortable indoor climate.

Sustainable and green architecture might have an influence on the aesthetics, but this should not be considered as a problem - rather a creative opportunity.

I would argue that, in spite of the diversity of contexts of action, outreach and methodologies that contemporary architecture practitioners can operate with nowadays, the discipline as a whole remains very much entrenched within its own confines, and in so doing it is still cast within the system of dependencies, economically, politically, that have defined it over past decades. Also unlike many other innovation-lead industries, it hasn't really fully reached or found its disruptive potential. I believe that for this to change and for this to happen instead, it is from the very foundation of the system that change should be enacted, and this is with therefore the entities and institutions there are entrusted with shaping and designing the scenarios of visions and actions that young and aspiring professionals work with. So, it is only with new pedagogical and educational methodologies for an envisioning of the role and positioning of architecture within a contemporary context of increasingly uneven global growth, that things can be rethought.