Representing Global Boundary Conditions: United Nations Environmental Council |UNEC|, New York

Representing Global Boundary Conditions: United Nations Environmental Council |UNEC|, New York

Burlage, O.C.

Van Bennekom, H.A. (mentor)
Gremmen, B. (mentor)
Koorstra, P.A. (mentor)
Kuitenbrouwer, P.A.M. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Architecture

Strategic architectural design development

2014-01-31

‘Pull a spring, let it go, and it will snap back into shape. Pull it further and yet further and it will go on springing back until, quite suddenly, it won’t. What was once a spring has become a useless piece of curly wire…’. (economist, 2012) The quote above represents what may happen to the Earth if its systems are overstretched. ‘… like those of an abused spring’. Anno 2013, the United Nations environmental program is in need of its own representative council building that can act as a global recognizable icon in promoting environmental politics! The design question was therefore: ‘How can architecture represent the essence of global environmental politics in such a way that it serves as an recognizable icon with a model sustainable character?’

UNEC

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:90c009d5-d75c-4254-a4b8-b6066348d61d

2014-01-31

Student theses

master thesis

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