ARCH 4200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Vancouver Art Gallery, London Library, Burra Charter
4 Apr 2016
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Makes social, cultural, economic and environmental sense. Reduces urban sprawl, environmental impact, material waste. Enhances quality of life, diversity, change of culture. Exising buildings green jean carroon: embodied energy: energy used in raw material acquisiion, embodied carbon: carbon emited through construcion, durability: low maintenance materials that last 100 years save energy to maintain, repair & restore. 4: repairability: repair rather than replace, passive survivability: daylight venilaion water - energy. Rehabilitaion adapive reuse of a classiied heritage site (25 years) Understand the evoluion layers: aboriginal, military highest point chosen for military barracks. Queen victoria chose otawa to be the capital in 1958. Only centre block had originally been for parliament funcions. East block and west block were for departments (ie privy council, Piece of land to the east was intended to be kept in case of expansion, but was sold to private sector and had to be designed to be compaible with parliament (now chateau laurier)
