2018 Directory

29 share their projects’ successes, and equally latent potential that was nev- er realized and why. The discussion was moderated by Veronica Schrei- beis Smith, AIA and the panel included Brent Bauer, M.D., Paula Baker Laport, FAIA, Rex Miller, Ray Lucchesi, Luis Longhi, Sarah McAllister, and Jon Lipman, AIA. This discussion covered the hidden potential each work of architecture has to benefit the health and wellbeing of the community, environment, local ecology, and individual occupants. The session moved into an interactive exercise where all participants identi- fied the proponents and antagonists of maximizing wellness capital in any project and concluded with an open comment period. Friday was a full day of speakers and continuing education presenta- tions at the Teton Science School. The speakers and their presentations follow: Veronica Schreibeis Smith, AIA began the day speaking about recent movements in the building industry and demonstrate why in today’s world we need to embrace not only the environmental movements, but also wellness movements. Participants gleaned tips for enhancing health-outcomes of their next project, including simple criteria to evaluate product and assembly specifications, and three not-so-easy, but critical shifts that must occur to be fully educated on wellness architec- ture practices. Brent Bauer, M.D.’s presentation utilized both didactic and audience participation (Q&A) to review emerging evidence on the impact indoor environments can have on occupants’ health. Early learnings from a new living lab was discussed as well. Ray Lucchesi examined three projects organized around living systems and human development, and the potential that the projects hold for their communities and the relationship to their ecological places: Live - Reconciling and harmonizing relationships of a community, and how it can be alive in its ecological place through inhabiting the land and not just being on the land. Play - Through re-creating ourselves in relation- ship to our place, and to a changing world, we realize that our behavior and development is more essential than our technology. Work - Our work and our contributions in a community need to become placed-based economies of integral relationships through re-investing into our place and communities. Rex Miller provide a lecture on “The Healthy Workplace Nudge: How Environment and Design Can TransformWorkplace Wellness”. Luis Longhi inspired designers to look deeper within themselves and their culture to discover essential qualities of local traditions, building techniques, and ancient wisdom, in order to decipher the value these practices have on both individual wellbeing and societal welfare. Participants were challenged to explore their responsibility to develop relationships with the landscape, designs that pay homage to traditional and culture-specific building techniques, and to observe their divine nature when creating their works of architecture. The conference continued into the evening with a tour of Town Enclo- sure, a recently completed public art/pavilion design by Carney Logan Burke Architects. Following the tour, participants gathered at the CLB office for a group presentation in the Pecha Kucha format while explor- ing precedents of wellness in architectural design. The conference concluded on Saturday morning at the Spring Hill Suites with a Building Biology Workshop by Paula Baker Laport, FAIA, sponsored in part by the Wyoming Board of Architects and Landscape Architects and open to the public to attend. What if you could cre- ate homes and workplaces that went far beyond non-toxic to nurture the health of occupants throughout the long-life of the building? As architects we can create healing environments through understanding and applying the physics with which nature designs. Building Biology is the science that studies the inter-relationship between life, the living environment and the built environment. Building Biology uses nature as the Gold Standard for a healthy human environment and ultimate model of perpetual ecological regeneration. It is based on 25 founding principles that were formulated in post WWII Germany once it became evident that the newly mass-produced housing was making people sick. In this workshop, it was discussed that the inter relationship between human health and ecology and why they are inseparable when a holistic approach is applied. Five “green” building myths that are “mythleading” our profession were presented. Accessible strategies for enriching the indoor environmental quality, that are not included in our current green building scorecards or to a large extent in the emerging wellness certification programs were covered. These include: the man-made electro-climate, ionization, natural temperature and moisture regulation, air content, color and pattern in accordance with nature, adsorption and the role of hygroscopic finishes. Finally, examples were shared of the Building Biology principles demonstrated in buildings from around the world and from Paula’s firm’s 25-year history of applied Building Biology. Thank you to Blair Costello McGregor, Veronica Schreibeis Smith, AIA, Matthew Miller, AIA, Karen Kelly, AIA, and Rachel Delventhal, AIA, for working with AIA Wyoming on this great event. We also thank our sponsors and exhibitors for participating and supporting our event. b