Life Cycle Thinking for Architectural Design

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-87641-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

This book provides an accessible and holistic understanding of life cycle assessment, allowing readers to build life cycle thinking into their design process.

Life cycle analysis is becoming more common place in architectural discussion to understand embodied carbon in buildings. However, life cycle cost analysis and social life cycle analysis are often not considered. By combining these methods of analyses a clear understanding of the environmental, economic, and social aspects of the entire life cycle of a building and its design emerges. Drawing from seminal texts as well as contemporary thinking on systems theory, urban systems, and ecological analyses this book frames architectural design processes within the socio-ecological context of twenty-first century challenges. It also highlights the role data visualization and data storytelling play in capturing the memory or embodied aspects of a building life cycle. This is critical for evidence-based decision-making during the design process as well as documenting the temporal scale of a building to allow for future use architecture. Finally, a case study comparing the life cycle of Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station in New York, highlights the environmental, economic, and social cost bore by the demolition and rebuild of Penn Station, and provides a demonstration of how the theory works in practice.

This will be an essential resource for all beginning architects and designers.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keena, Naomi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Ökologische Aspekte in der Architektur
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1: The Temporal Scale of Architecture 1. Introduction: Architecture as a Multi-Scalar Terrestrial Practice  2. Future Use Architecture is an Ancient Idea 3. Information Memory and Data Storytelling  PART 2: Visualizing the Memory of Future use Architecture  4. Energy and Material Memory (Embodied Energy, Carbon, Water - Life Cycle Assessment) 5. Economic Memory (Embodied Cost - Life Cycle Cost Analysis) 6. Collective Memory (Embodied Suffering and Joy, Social Life Cycle Assessment)  PART 3: Future use Architecture in Practice 7. The Case of Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station (1903 – 2023) - Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment

Über Autor(innen)

Naomi Keena is an Assistant Professor at McGill University’s Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture and Director of McGill’s TRACE lab. Keena’s research aims to rethink our built environment as an untapped material resource in a continuous cycle of reuse.