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Where We Work
Explore the radical transformation taking place in the workplace, not only from the perspective of place and furniture but also location and proximity to home.
Where We Live
Examine case studies of the work of architects addressing issues related to home and housing.
Our Place in the World
Discover alternate roles for the architect through national and world leaders who know what is expected and what is demanded of those who wish to lead.
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Investigate new forms of communication as we look at how we reinforce and build upon traditional environments.
Our Place on the Land
Explore restorative and regenerative approaches to high performance buildings as one of the opportunities for architects to embrace as a continuing challenge for the profession into the future.
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TH09 The Invisible City: Enhancing the Land Through Underground Interventions HSW
05/15/2008, 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM


Learning Units: 1.00-Advanced level

Training Units: 0.25-Training Area 4 (Engineering Systems Coordination)

Opportunities exist to develop more intensive spaces below ground for both service systems and other uses. Contemporary construction and tunneling technologies offer new opportunities to create useable and pleasant spaces below grade-spaces that can relieve the development pressure on the ground plane. Hear how recent planning and design work at several American universities and hospitals has helped preserve the ground plane and put appropriate uses underground. Two of these institutions, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are in the vicinity of the AIA convention and serve as case studies for improving aesthetics, circulation, and safety on the ground.

Learning Objectives:
  • Assess the potentials for underground space use and the benefits that can accrue to design of the ground plane
  • More creatively serve your clients' space needs
  • Effectively plan and design service systems and networks
Speaker: Robert Michael Brandon, AIA

Provider: SEA Consultants Inc.

TH09 Thursday, 7-8 a.m.