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Given that the most viable means to radically reduce embodied carbon in new buildings is to use plant and earth based materials, what are these materials’ qualities and characteristics? How have they been catalysts for architectural invention as tested in houses around the world? What design trajectories exist for future exploration? The exhibition examines how designing through these materials pushes architecture toward peculiar, unconventional, yet logical assemblies.
The exhibit is composed of three parts.
First is an exhibit of a new book, Manual of Biogenic House Sections. The book, and thus the exhibition, is organized into material-specific chapters.
Second are large-scale prints from the start of each material chapter in the book including Wood Frame, Mass Timber, Bamboo, Straw, Hemp, Cork, Earth, Brick, Stone, and Reuse. These show a life cycle understanding of the given material and its processes of fabrication.
Third are five small houses designed by LTL Architects that use biogenic material assemblies as catalysts for building form,
domestic organization, and spatial seduction. These projects demonstrate our optimism about architecture’s agency when embracing biogenic materials in the move towards a regenerative future.
Exhibition Design: LTL Architects: Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis, Celia Chaussabel, Kyle Reich, and Patty Hazle
Join us for Marc Tsurumaki's Lecture "Low Carbon Assemblies - Biogenic House Sections" on June 13th.
Five Biogenic House Designs: LTL Architects: Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis, Celia Chaussabel, and Kyle Reich; Tengku Sharil Bin Tengku Abdul Kadir and Danial Mahfoud. Thanks to the Princeton School of Architecture students in Arc560a S’22 Building and Embodied Carbon Design Seminar for advancing ideas about biogenic wall sections that informed these designs: Melinda Denn, Jasen Domanico, Tessa Flanagan, Julian Gonzalez, Daniel Hall, Jonathan Hanna, Kaleb Houston, Rinna Jiang, Austin Madrigale, Danial Mahfoud, John Mikesh, Adrian Mitchell, and Ian Ting
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LTL Architects in collaboration with AIA Philadelphia COTE will host the exhibit titled ' Biogenic House Sections' at the Center for Design Philadelphia from 01 June to 27 June, 2024 as part of our 'Low Carbon Assemblies' series. The exhibit presents a compelling argument for rethinking the material basis of architecture in a time of environmental crisis asserting that the most viable means to radically reduce embodied carbon in new buildings is to use plant and earth based materials.
