AIA Canada - A Pattern Language from Passive House

Session 2 - Materials and Assemblies

When: Wednesday 16 November 2022 @ 12:00 (Eastern US Time)
CES Credits - 3 LU/ HSWs for AIA Members; course offers 12 LU/ HSWs total
Cost - $700 (AIA members get 10% discount with code AIAPL39#)

Description

AIA Canada is excited to to partner with Passive House Canada to offer this four-part course to AIA members. Get your 12 AIA credits with 12 HSW to satisfy your annual credit requirements before the end of the year!

This is an interactive workshop that teaches cost-effective planning and design of affordable, low-emission, mid-rise, multi-unit, wood-framed housing. This four-part workshop presents design problems common to multi-unit buildings, followed by solutions that have worked in previous high-performance projects. These solutions are organized into “patterns” using a format adapted from A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander (et al). The patterns presented in this workshop are drawn from the hundreds of affordable multi-unit buildings constructed to the Passive House standard worldwide, because this is the largest cohort of affordable, low-emission, mid-rise, multi-unit housing. While these solutions are taken from Passive House buildings, they are applicable for residential building design to meet Step 4 of the BC Energy Step Code, as well as multi-unit buildings aiming for similar low-TEDI or not-zero energy standards. Likewise, while this workshop focuses on affordable housing, the patterns apply equally to market- and luxury-housing projects. RDH is consulting to or certifying more than six million square feet of Passive House. The course is an attempt to condense what we have learned from those projects, with a focus on how to construct multi-family passive house for less.

Course Dates

Day 1: Wednesday November 9, 2022
Day 2: Wednesday November 16, 2022
Day 3: Wednesday November 23, 2022
Day 4: Wednesday November 30, 2022

AIA Intl Taipei - Creating and Sustaining a Professional Practice: The Journey of JJP

When: Saturday 12 November 2022 @ 00:30 (Eastern US Time)/ 13:30 (Taipei time)

CES: Estimated 2 LU for AIA Members

Description

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AIA Canada - A Pattern Language from Passive House

Session 1 - Context and Form

When: Wednesday 9 November 2022 @ 12:00 (Eastern US Time)
CES Credits - 3 LU/ HSWs for AIA Members; course offers 12 LU/ HSWs total
Cost - $700 (AIA members get 10% discount with code AIAPL39#)

Description

AIA Canada is excited to to partner with Passive House Canada to offer this four-part course to AIA members. Get your 12 AIA credits with 12 HSW to satisfy your annual credit requirements before the end of the year!

This is an interactive workshop that teaches cost-effective planning and design of affordable, low-emission, mid-rise, multi-unit, wood-framed housing. This four-part workshop presents design problems common to multi-unit buildings, followed by solutions that have worked in previous high-performance projects. These solutions are organized into “patterns” using a format adapted from A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander (et al). The patterns presented in this workshop are drawn from the hundreds of affordable multi-unit buildings constructed to the Passive House standard worldwide, because this is the largest cohort of affordable, low-emission, mid-rise, multi-unit housing. While these solutions are taken from Passive House buildings, they are applicable for residential building design to meet Step 4 of the BC Energy Step Code, as well as multi-unit buildings aiming for similar low-TEDI or not-zero energy standards. Likewise, while this workshop focuses on affordable housing, the patterns apply equally to market- and luxury-housing projects. RDH is consulting to or certifying more than six million square feet of Passive House. The course is an attempt to condense what we have learned from those projects, with a focus on how to construct multi-family passive house for less.

Course Dates

Day 1: Wednesday November 9, 2022
Day 2: Wednesday November 16, 2022
Day 3: Wednesday November 23, 2022
Day 4: Wednesday November 30, 2022

AIA Intl Taipei - ESG and Architecture - the Architect’s Role

When: Friday 28 October 2022 @ 06:30 (Eastern US Time)/ 18:30 (Taipei time)

CES: Estimated 2 LU/ HSW for AIA Members

Speakers

Tzen-Ying Ling, Associate Professor, Tamkang University; Principal, AJL Architects

Morris Lin, Digital Twin Manager, Taiwan Architecture & Building Center

Richard Lee, Partner, CYLEE Office

Description

The talk will showcase ESG presence and influence in the Architecture practice. This talk brings together three views on the architect’s role. Three speakers are invited to share their experience, focusing on local best practice and policy as well as the modular thinking amidst the current trend.

AIA Japan - Creating a Forest in the City: Pioneering Wood Structure in Architecture

When: Friday 28 October 2022 @ 06:00 (Eastern US Time)/ 19:00 (Japan time)
CES Credits - 2.0 LU/ HSW for AIA Members

Speakers

Kazuyoshi Kimura, Chairman and Founder of Shelter Inc.

Description

In this lecture, CEO Kazuyoshi Kimura will introduce the innovative work in wood structure being pioneered by Shelter. Inc. Included will be examples of their latest mid-to-high-rise timber buildings using the innovative joint hardware construction methods and wooden fireproofing technology, as well as examples of artistic timber architecture using 3D precut technology. Using these unique technologies, Shelter will explain how they achieve their goal to create a forest in the city, and an eco-friendly "Timber City."

Speaker Bios

Kazuyoshi Kimura, Chairman and Founder of Shelter Inc.
Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Ashikaga Institute of Technology in1972. In 1973, he studied at the Graduate School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Established Shelter Home Co., Ltd. (now Shelter Inc.) in 1974. He and Shelter revolutionized wooden architecture in Japan with the development of the joint hardware construction method “KES system” and the wooden fireproof technology “COOL WOOD”. Established the Japan Fireproof Timber Building Association and assumed the post of chairman in 2014. Currently the vice-chairman of the Council for Promoting Timber Buildings in Cities, and the chairman of the Yamagata Prefecture Association of Invention and Innovation.

University of Liverpool in association with AIA Intl

Robert Maxwell Memorial Lectures - O'Donnell & Tuomey: More Space for Architecture

When: Thursday 29 September 2022 @ 13:00 (Eastern US Time)/ 18:00 (UK Time)

Where: The Old Library, School of the Arts, 19 Abercromby Square, University of Liverpool/ ONLINE

Description

Sheila O’Donnell + John Tuomey’s lecture More Space for Architecture will present recent work, public buildings on site and social and educational projects in the making. They will discuss aspects of architectural design, their understanding of the relationship of buildings to place and their sense of the practical and poetical purposes of architecture. The lecture will illustrate how architectural ideas are developed from concept sketches, working models and detail design through to construction on site. O’Donnell + Tuomey are currently working on the new extension to the School of Architecture at the University of Liverpool.

Introduction: Nwola Uduku, University of Liverpool

Mark Swenarton, University of Liverpool

Lecture: Sheila O’Donnell, John Tuomey, O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects

Conclusion: Marco Iuliano, University of Liverpool

AIA Intl Taipei - The +-x÷ of Urbanity

Where: 1F, No. 148 Songjiang Road, Taipei/ ONLINE
When: Thursday 21 July 2022 @ 07:00 (Eastern US Time)/ 19:00 (Taipei time)
CES Credits - Estimated 2.0 LU for AIA Members

Speaker - Jay Chiu, Principal,  AxB Architecture Studio

Description

The effect a small plaza has on the city.

The rhapsody of the dance between buildings and trees.

The formation of shortcuts from alleyways to mountaintops; and between ports and city.

A pragmatic approach to realizing the dream of recycling a building.

This lecture will focus on the unique approach and interpretation of Taiwan urbanity by AxB architecture studio. Mr. Chiu is the principal of the award-winning architecture firm – AxB architecture studio, where he has made influential architectural statements about Taipei, and furthermore Taiwan. His education in the West gave him the tools to build modern architecture, yet he also took time to explore other aspects in the field of architecture. Mr. Chiu's projects, from his numerous early works, including the masterpiece, 921 Earthquake Museum, to his recent project, Mountain Within, all reflect his architectural insights regarding urbanity and a personal sense of humbleness. More importantly, these projects all share the application of the concept of AxB when dealing with either public and private space or dual programs.