Status: Attendee
Time: 2015
Type: Sustainable Design
Office: THINK
Collaborators:
Onur Can Tepe, Architect
Yasin Toparlar, Civic Eng.
Nordic Built - Oslo Office Building Renovation
Why do we climatize our buildings as if every corner of it is homogenously used? Can we invent models that would climatically treat differently, to the parts that are used differently? Can we imagine half opening our buildings to the environment by means of half-climatized, “liminal” spaces? These are the questions that provided the driving principles of our proposal. We aimed to invent a method that looks to our artificial habitats alternatively and from that perspective suggests a solution that combines innovative engineering wıth betterment of our habits of inhabiting offıce spaces. With this combined effort we have managed to reduce the energy consumption of Posthuset by 55-60%. After all, sustaining our existence is not just a matter of rethinking our material usage, but also rethinking our lifestyle.