AIA Japan - Human Wellness: Pandemic and Beyond Wellness Design to Built Environment
Event Description
In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) categorized health threats that can derail humans and a pandemic was number 3 on the list. When COVID-19 hit us in early 2020, we saw firsthand what the impact can be.
In this presentation, the latest research on COVID-19 will be presented with quantifiable data on risk and impacts, with a focus on how that impacts built environment design.
This presentation will also look beyond the current shadow at the holistic health impacts in our future and strategies to make us healthier. The population over 60 years old globally was about 7% in 1950, rising to 13% in 2020, and likely 28% by 2070. With the aging of the population, the next global health emergency could have more devastating effects and derail our future economy if they are not adequately addressed.
Our built environment and our lifestyles have been decoupled from nature and natural cycles. The key for a healthy future will be a realignment with nature inside and outside our built environment. The focus of this presentation will start with human-centric health design, and move beyond to terrestrial health. The holistic health of humans also requires a healthy earth to thrive together.
CES: 1.0 LU/ HSW for AIA Members
Speaker
Luke Leung, Director, Firm Wide Sustainability Engineering Studio, SOM
Host: Segene Park, AIA Japan President, Senior Architect / Masterplaner, Nikken Sekkei
Moderator: Tetsuya Yaguchi, AIA Japan Secretary, Professor Waseda University, Dept. of Architecture, School of Creative Science and Engineering
Luke Leung is a LEED Fellow; ASHRAE Pandemic Task Force Commercial Team Leader; AIA COVID-19 Task Force; BOMA Toronto Health Committee Co-Chair; Chair of ASHRAE “Environmental Health Committee”; ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer; ASHRAE Carbon Task Force; Former Chair of ASHRAE TC 9.12 on Tall Buildings; Expert Peer Review Committee for Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat; Former Board of Directors for USGBC, Illinois; Industrial Professional Advisory Council Pennsylvania State University Architectural Engineering Department; Industry Advisory Board for IN2 start-up incubator program with US National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
He is the wide firm Director of the Sustainability Engineering Studio for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP. His work includes Burj Khalifa, the current world’s tallest building, and other four of the top 20 tallest buildings in the world. Other work also included General Motors Global Headquarters, Beijing Finance Street, US Census Bureau, US Air Force Academy CCLD, US Embassy in Beijing, BBVA Tower in Mexico City, LG Art Hall in Seoul, Korea; Master planning of XiongAn – the millennium plan of China, and numerous other significant tall and large projects.
Segene Park joined Nikken Sekkei (Tokyo) in 2015, bringing with him over 12 years of architectural design, urban planning, and firm leadership experience from Epstein and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Chicago). He is currently a Senior Architect / Master Planner and served as a President at the American Institute of Architects Japan.
He has been involved with different kinds of worldwide projects on all scales around the world: architectural designs for residential building, office, hotel, museum, convention center, high-rise building, super tall building, and sustainable building, interior design, smart city, landscape design and urban planning. Segene`s designs brought team the numerous awards and were published in Architectural Record, New York Times Online Edition, L4 Design Magazine, Chicago AIA Magazine, ArchDaily, and other major publications. His project wasexhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005, the Cliff Dwllers in 2006, Venice Biennale in 2008, Cityscape Dubai in 2016 and 2017.
Tetsuya Yaguchi has 20 years of professional experience as an architect/ urban designer working on a wide range of projects for private and public clients. He worked at AECOM San Francisco office as an associate Principal and worked on various types of projects in the United States, Asia, and Middle East countries.
Mr. Yaguchi currently holds an academic position at Waseda University and conducts theoretical research and urban design exercises that focus on sustaining and enhancing the built environment through understanding the physical, social, ecological, and technological underlying system of the cities as a whole. Mr. Yaguchi is a certified planner in the United States and a registered architect in Japan and California
