Building Envelope: A Path to Net Zero
This lightening talk will briefly discuss concerns and forces behind design decisions in the construction of a residential building envelope. The goals, the compromises, the decisions and the results. There are endless ways to design building envelopes. Structure no longer rules the dimensioning of walls or roof in wood frame construction. Environmental requirements become the deciding factors addressing insulation, thermal bridging, air infiltration, and water penetration. This brief presentation will gallop through the decision process for one residential building.
Professor Kathleen Lugosch, FAIA, was the founding Director of the Architecture Program at the University of Massachusetts, forging a path for UMass to become home for the first accredited degree in architecture at a public university in New England. Her architecture practice focusing on residential design, offers a platform for a wholistic view of architecture ranging from the integration of site and building to environment, materials, detail, the inter-play of people and space, – and always, the aesthetics of architecture. She currently teaches both graduate and undergraduate architecture studios, including a graduate level studio that brings architecture and landscape architecture students together in a collaborative working partnership.