The exigencies of a world in which temperatures,
sea-levels, populations, pollution and fuel costs are all rising, while
fossil-based energy reserves are falling, mean architecture must do
more to help in the creation of truly sustainable cities and buildings. Chicago-based Sean Lally leads a team of architects, landscape architects, engineers and researchers, saying that buildings of the future won't have walls and will instead consist of climate-controlled areas of landscape. So now, architectural education focuses on concentrating on sustainability,
climate change, environmental responsibility and renewable energy. The project, entitled Urban Forest, for example was inspired by the mountainous typology of the surroundings. Each one of the seventy floors is unique with a different abstract curved shape and layered slightly off-center from it neighboring floors. The floors give an organic and textured effect to the façade as it rises into the sky. In conclusion, Rather than continue to focus on maximising efficiency for [energy's] conservation and consumption, we must provide an architecture with lifestyles for the future that give us new worlds to strive for and realise.
Reference
http://www.dezeen.com/2014/11/03/new-energy-landscapes-sean-lally-istanbul-design-biennial-2014/
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable-cities/results/gcsc-reports/borden.pdf
http://www.archdaily.com/42968/urban-forest-mad-architects
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