UNEC: A monument for sustainability

The task of SADD graduation studio is to design a building for the United Nations Environmental Council which locates next to the existing iconic UN headquarters complex. The building itself must perform sustainably and also be representational to the public as icon for the promised sustainable future. A monumental architecture related to...

United Nations Environmental Council

A new Environmental Council for the United Nations

United Nations Environmental Council

As times goes, the world becomes more conscious of the adverse effects of its interventions in the environment and the necessity of new approaches in producing, designing and applying new methods becomes unquestioned. SADD studio is an architectural design proposal for The ‘UN headquarters of sustainability’ organization which aims to accelerate...

Green roof contributes to good environment and public space in sustainable design

In the graduation lab Strategic Architectural Design Development (SADD), students will design a new UN Headquarters of Sustainability in New York City. Sustainable developments and measurements are being taken all over the world, in all sorts and kinds. Still many steps need to be taken and conflicting interests need to be solved, but the...

UNEC

The new United Nation Environmental Council

United Nations of Sustainability

United Nations Environmental Council / United Nations Headquarters for Sustainability

Design for the graduation studio of Materialisation. The assignment was to design a new council for the United Nations in New York, which would become the United Nations Environmental Council

United Nations Environmental Council

Graduation project on the building design for a new UN council in New York City: the proposed United Nations Environmental Council (UNEC), next to the current UN Headquarters. The building contains a mixed program of functions: the Council's conference room, auditoria, offices and exposition areas. Sustainable building solutions are integrated...

Designing for the UN Headquarters of sustainability, NY

Sustainable developments and measurements are being taken all over the world, in all sorts and kinds. Still many steps need to be taken and conflicting interests need to be solved, but the awareness and care for our environment has never been in better shape than today. This is a very promising and challenging development that would only work...

Strategic Architectural Design Development: United Nations Environmental Council

The design for a new United Nations Environmental Council on the current plot of the UN in Manhattan, New York.

Ground In / Between: The United Nations headquarters of sustainability, New York City

The UN-headquarters for sustainability will be the control centre in the race to take the leap towards a more sustainable development, with the responsibility of conveying sustainable solutions and policies. It will host the organization of multidisciplinary activities aiming to raise awareness on the subject, inform, motivate and inspire people...

scheme #43

This project concerns a graduation project from the department of materialisation: Strategic Architectural Design Development (SADD). The design focuses upon a new UN council in New York City: the United Nations Environmental Council (UNEC) which is placed in the north lawn, next to the current UN Headquarters. The building contains a mixed...

Strategic Architectural Design Development: United Nations Environmental Council

This graduate design is about the research and design of a new council for the United Nations in New York.

Building for sustainability - the United Nations Environmental Council

Graduation project on the building design for a new UN council in New York City: the proposed United Nations Environmental Council (UNEC), next to the current UN Headquarters. The building contains a mixed programme of functions: the Council's conference room, auditoria, offices and exposition areas. Sustainable building solutions are integrated...

United Nations Environmental Council: The Green Waves of Sustainability

Design a building for the Environmental Council for the United Nations, that will be the home-base for the worldwide coördination of sustainable measurements. The building will be situated on the United Nations plot in Manhattan, New York.

Strategic Architectural Design Development (SADD): Science and Business Centre Future Field

This report consists of an application of a project for the MSc Building Technologies to the project of the MSc Architecture at faculty of Architecture, the Delft University of Technology (TUDelft). It is part of a double graduation program, called Strategic Architectural Design Development (SADD), by the chair of Materialisation, and combines...