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World Architecture Congress: Conference - Day One


08:00

Registration and Coffee 

   

08:35

Opening Remarks From The Chairman  
Ken Livingstone, Former Mayor of London, UK

   

08:45

Special Opening Address: 
Rashad Mohammed Bukhash, Director of Architectural Heritage Department, Dubai Municipality, UAE

   

09:00

Keynote Address: 
Ken Livingstone, Former Mayor of London, UK

   
Strategies For New Urbanism
 

09:50

Keynote: A Commentary On New Urbanism From 
Pritzker Prize Laureate
Thom Mayne, Principal, Morphosis, USA

   

10:50

Networking And Refreshment Break 

   

11:15

Integrating Urbanity With Lifestyle 

  • Lifestyle - what are the demands?
  • Urbaninity - what are the constraints?
  • Design strategies to attain intelligent and enjoyable living
  • Social life and achieving a healthy urban community

Marilyn Jordan Taylor, Partner in Charge of Urban Design and Planning, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, USA

   

12:00

Achieving Caring Cities By Design

  • Design approaches
  • Positive airflows
  • Green spaces
  • The importance of achievable pedestrianisation
  • Master planning cohesive public spaces

Donna Sultan, CEO, KEO Consultants, UAE

   

12:45

Reflecting The New Hybrid Identity In Urban And Architectural Design

  • Understanding contemporary identities
  • The relevance of traditional Arab/Islamic heritage
  • Depictions/historic theming - a critical evaluation
  • Expressing evolving identities through urban and architectural built form
  • The multi-dimensional approach: towards a design synthesis

Wael Al-Masri, Partner and Director of Urban Planning and Architectural Design, Dar Al-Omran, Jordan

   

13:30

Lunch for Delegates And Speakers

   
Tall Buildings – Latest Schools Of Thought 
 

14:30

Iconic Towers - Getting The Right Balance 

  • Balancing between
    • architecture and engineering
    • aesthetics and efficiency
    • form and function
    • simplicity and complexity
  • Challenges posed by articulated towers – the scale and the magnitude of loads they carry
  • A more integrated approach
    • efficient, buildable and cost effective complex shapes
    • design solutions for unusual towers - from the economic to the absurd
  • Innovative tall building design solutions
  • A patented structural design solution for the twisting tower

David Scott, Chairman, Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and Principal, Arup, USA

   

15:10

Keynote: Supertall, Super Sustainable

  • What is sustainable high-rise design?
  • The impact of sustainable design on the cost and schedule of development
  • Reducing the impact of the tall building on local and global ecology and society
  • Passive strategies
  • Supporting the existing infrastructure
  • Conviviality and movement - how to promote an opportunity matrix and socialisation
  • Is there a winning formula? - The Burj Dubai; a development we can learn from
  • Achieving efficiency - zoning out
  • Achieving a durable and flexible internal environment
  • A life-cycle perspective

Adrian Smith, Partner, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, USA

   

16:00

Networking And Refreshment Break

   
Sustainability – The Reality 
 

16:30

High Performance Green Buildings - International Inspiration And Impact

  • Building beyond beyond Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
  • Energy, water and indoor environmental quality - the key drivers
  • Emirates Green Building Council guidance
  • The demand for environmental responsibility
  • The need for ecology data
  • Applying LEED and and Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM)
  • Establishing a standards rating system - the latest position

Mario Seneviratne, FI Mech., P.Eng., Director, Green Technologies FZCO, Founder and Secretary to the Board, Emirates Green Building Council and Board Member and Chairman – Tools & Projects Committee, World Green Building Council, UAE

   

17:10

Keynote: New Construction Technologies For Sustainability - The Rotating Towers
An up-to-the-minute analysis and discussion from the architect of one of the most innovative designs globally:

  • Practically useful techniques
  • Cutting edge advances
  • Energy saving construction methods
  • Technological breakthroughs
  • New materials you should know about

David Fisher, Chairman, Dynamic Architecture, Italy

   

17:45

Chairman's Summary Of Day One

   

17:50

Close of Congress Day One

 

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