AIA Japan - Product to Planet with Leon Rost (BIG)
When: Thursday 16 September 2021 @ 06:00 (Eastern US Time)/ 19:00 (Japan time)
CES Credits - 2.0 LU/ HSW for AIA Members
Speaker - Leon Rost, AIA, Partner at BIG
Description
From hand-held product to a city-building scale, Leon demonstrates how wood can be an integral aspect of a concept design, and carry through into execution. Google projects in California and London deploy mass timber as structural complement to steel and concrete systems, and as a carbon-sequestering complement to green and PV roofs. Zooming out to a global perspective, we explore how mass timber fits in to a sustainable master plan for our planet, and investigate the potential of robotic manufacturing on mass timber construction.
Speaker Bio
Leon Rost, Partner at BIG: Leon Rost began his collaboration with Bjarke Ingels in 2005 at PLOT in Copenhagen. After completing architectural studies at California Polytechnic University, Leon worked with renowned offices in Japan, Scandinavia, and Portugal on a variety of cultural, residential and master planning projects. Leon joined BIG with the launch of the New York office in 2011, and in 2018 he became a Partner, leading a range of projects with a focus on sustainability, technology, and the public realm. Currently, Leon is leading the design of the competition-winning Johns Hopkins University Student Center, the Oakland A’s ballpark masterplan, Google’s visionary campus and headquarter buildings with over 3 million SF currently under construction, as well as Woven City, Toyota’s prototype city of the future.
