Melissa Sterry's presentation 'Building Tomorrow's World | The Emerging Principles of Twenty First Century Design' show at the Sustainable Design Network Seminar 2009 at Loughborough University, held on 12th June 2009.
4. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: MULTI-FUNCTION
Michael Jantzen Turbine Wind Tunnel Bridge - made of steel and aluminum
• Wind turns five wheels - storing energy for future use in the same way a windmill does
• Creates a sound as you make your way across the bridge - wind chime effect
5. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: MULTI-FUNCTION
Ross Lovegrove - Car on a Stick
• Solar-Powered Transport Pod by day
• Telescopic pole beneath so can be stored upright on a
stick when not in use to save space
• Transforms into a street light by night
7. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: MICRO-ENERGY
Magenn’s Power Air Rotor products
• Electrical bird and bat friendly mobile air-born generator systems
• Rotate in the wind and literally glide through the air generating electricity
• The first Magenn products come to market in 2010
9. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: MICRO-ENERGY
New York’s Fluxxlab studio’s ‘Revolution Door’ Central
• Core is a mechanical system that harnesses the kinetic energy of the doors spinning
movement and converts it to electricity to power offices
10. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: MICRO-ENERGY
Cool Earth’s concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) system
• Inexpensive materials, radically reducing material requirements, as well as plant
deployment costs and time
• One CPV plant covering 150 miles by 150 miles would generate enough power to
meet all the electrical needs of the United States until 2030
• Each 8-foot-diameter concentrator is made of plastic film and has a transparent upper
hemisphere and a reflective lower hemisphere. When inflated with air the concentrator
naturally forms a shape that concentrates sunlight onto a PV cell placed at the focal
point
12. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: LIFETIME GUARANTEE
Lighting Science Group - LED lightbulbs
• 80% less energy used than incandescent bulbs
• Replaced every 50,000 hours (10 to 30 years)
• Estimated cost saving over lifetime $740
13. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: LIFETIME GUARANTEE
Junky Styling - London Fashion Week A/W ‘09 Collection
• Made from secondhand clothing
15. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: CLOSED LOOPS
Worn Again - Trainer
• Pre and post consumer and corporate waste materials upcycled into shoes, bags & accessories
• Re-use of materials, preventing waste from going to landfill
• Upcycled products made out of fire hoses, air balloons, uniforms, seat belts
17. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: MATERIAL MINIMALISM
CURB - 100% sustainable media
• Clean advertising
• Sand / Compost Art
• Logrow / Ad Field
• Mow Ad / Crop Ad
• Rake Ad
• Snow Tagging
• Solar Art
• H2 Show
20. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: ORGANIC ORIGINS
Jean-Marie Massaud - Manned Cloud Hotel
•700ft x 270ft x 170ft super-airship with 20 bedrooms, a restaurant, library, lounge, bar, gym and spa
•Only requiring re-fuelling after 5,000 kilometers, able to remain airborne for roughly 3 days, traveling at a
cruising speed of 80mph, with a maximum speed of 105mph
•Ferrying up to 40 passengers in the sky for a serene cruise around the world, its terraces with panoramic
windows will bring a whole new dimension to sight-seeing
21. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: ORGANIC ORIGINS
Ross Lovegrove - DNA Staircase
• Inspired by DNA and human bone
• Made it from fiberglass and unidirectional carbon
via bladder molding
• High-performance composite manufacturing to
produce hollow lightweight form
22. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: ORGANIC ORIGINS
Festo’s bionic AquaPenguin
• Hydrodynamic body contour designed with elegant wing propulsion and head and tail sections that can be
moved in all directions
• Able to manoeuvre in cramped spatial conditions and turn on the spot, but unlike biological counterparts, can
also swim backwards
• An autonomous underwater vehicle that independently navigates itself, supported by a 3D sonar system, which
allows communication with surroundings and other robotic penguins
• Expect to see technology developed for use in underwater research and exploration
23. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: ORGANIC ORIGINS
Ross Lovegrove - Solar Trees
• Solar-powered urban street lighting
•Solar branches follow the sun
25. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: FORM FOLLOWING FUNCTION
Steve Fambro’s Aptera
• 300 miles or more to the gallon
• Shape minimizes air resistance
• 3 wheels minimize drag on the road
• Interior and exterior LED lighting
• Solar assisted climate control system
• Recycled materials
• Both electric and plug-in hybrid models
• Top speed of 90mph
• 0-60 in around 10 seconds
• Ample storage - interior large enough to
fit a surf board
26. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: FORM FOLLOWING FUNCTION
Ecotricity - Greenbird
• The most advanced wind-powered
vehicle on Earth
• Fuses a combination of technology
found on Aircraft and Formula 1 cars
• Achieves speeds up to 126.1 mph with
no engine
• Driven by British engineer Richard
Jenkins
• Greenbird smashed the world land
speed record for wind-powered vehicles in
winds of just 30mph
27. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: FORM FOLLOWING FUNCTION
University of Southampton & Checkmate SeaEnergy’s Anaconda funded by EPSRC
200m long flexible rubber tube filled with seawater and sealed at both ends that sits on the ocean surface
generating wave energy
Each passing wave squeezes the rubber, producing a bulge that ripples down the tube, powering an electric
turbine at the end. Scaled down versions of the concept are currently being tested in wave tanks
30. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: NATURE DICTATING DESIGN
Parans - Solar Fibre Optic Lighting
Collects natural sunlight and feeds into interior spaces via optical cables, which flows out through Parans
patented luminary technology
Light can be collected from roofs or exterior walls - using optical lenses to collect and concentrate the light
32. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: TRANSITIONAL TRENDS
Little Shrimp - Kids Printed T-Shirt
•Could be created from scraps of fabric from
secondhand clothes or off-cuts from the
factory floor
•Fusion of old / new styles
•100% organic cotton
34. EMERGING PRINCIPLE: THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
Philips - Living Colour LED Lighting
•16 Million colour options at the flick of a
switch
•Intuitive remote control uses radio-waves
not infrared
•Based on 3 hrs use a day lasts up to 5 yrs
37. THE CHALLENGES OF BUILDINGS TOMORROW’S SUSTAINABLE WORLD
CAN YOU SPOT THE DELIBERATE MISTAKES? Surfers & Seafarers may have a head start when
trying to spot the flaws
Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut’s Floating Cities
38. THE CHALLENGES OF BUILDINGS TOMORROW’S SUSTAINABLE WORLD
CAN YOU SPOT THE DELIBERATE MISTAKE? Those who own
solar panels have an advantage spotting the flaw
Lillies, by Peter Richardson
39. THE CHALLENGES OF BUILDINGS TOMORROW’S SUSTAINABLE WORLD
CAN YOU SPOT THE DELIBERATE MISTAKE? A clue… this concept was submitted to a leading
international sustainable design competition stating the concept could ‘off-set carbon emissions’
from vehicles
Garden Spots, by Stefanie Werner
40. THE CHALLENGES OF BUILDINGS TOMORROW’S SUSTAINABLE WORLD
CAN YOU SPOT THE DELIBERATE MISTAKE? Were you paying attention when I presented ‘Form
Following Function’ and ‘Nature Dictating Design’… what’s wrong with the ‘form’ of this car?
Scott Abel of Definable Design, an intern graphic designer at Pentagram in San Francisco
41. BUILDING TOMORROW’S SUSTAINABLE WORLD FURTHER READING…
Trends Review in Sustained Issue 8 - the Innovation issue -
http://issuu.com/sustained/docs/issue_008/18
Renewable Energies Review in Sustained Issue 9 - the Low Carbon issue -
http://issuu.com/sustained/docs/009
Read the extended Renewable Energy review at http://www.societas.ltd.uk/futureofenergy.html
See the Sustainable Transport review in Sustained Issue 10 - the Alarm issue - coming out in July.
WWF’s Reports -
Deeper Luxury - http://www.wwf.org.uk/deeperluxury
Let Them East Cake Report -
http://www.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/working_with_business/?uNewsID=537
Signposts & Weathercocks Report -
http://www.wwf.org.uk/research_centre/research_centre_results.cfm?uNewsID=2224
Treehugger - http://www.treehugger.com and Inhabitat - http://www.inhabitat.com