Kenneth Turner - Progressing towards Regenerative Tall Buildings
When: Thursday 11 November 2021 @ 23:30 (Eastern US Time)/ Friday 12 November @ 08:30 (Dubai time)
Where: Concrete at Alserkal Avenue, 17th St - Al Quoz - Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Speaker
Kenneth Turner, Design Principal, DLR Group
CES: 1.5 LU/ HSW for AIA Members
Event Description
The time has come for the tall building’s profession to progress performance base design beyond net zero energy and towards creating regenerative buildings that contribute to the resources of its community. This presentation examines the tall building’s primary nutrients (electricity and water) and will explore design considerations for making them fully self-sufficient. Urban centres cannot continue to sustain, nor should tall buildings continue to be built with a present-day mindset of relying solely on outside resources for functionality. To progress this forward, several factors need to be identified, re-examined, and renegotiated focusing on fundamental changes to how tall buildings are designed.
The questions and challenges with tall buildings reduction and regeneration of critical nutrients are not difficult to answer or understand when each component is analysed individually. In fact, current technology exists for almost each analysis and solution. Very much like an artistic mosaic, it starts with a single tile placement, by layering in new tiles, the mosaic takes on a masterful composition.
Speaker Bio
Kenneth Turner, Design Principal, DLR Group
Kenneth Turner is an award-winning design architect who has delivered prestigious projects in North America, Europe, Asia, India and the Middle East. His international design experience focuses on urban design, commercial office, hospitality, exhibition and residential. Kenneth has developed a reputation for design excellence working closely with his clients to interpret their goals into creative, forward-thinking, pragmatic and memorable design solutions. His architecture works, writings and lectures articulate Kenneth’s design approach seeking to move performance base design beyond net zero energy and towards creating self-sufficient, regenerative buildings that contribute to the resources of its community. As an established thought leader, Kenneth has been invited to speak at various industry conferences, written articles for industry publications and participated in industry think tank workshops.
Burj Khalifa, Dubai - as a SOM Associate Partner, Kenneth directed design efforts for the world's tallest building winning the international design competition and developing conceptual, schematic through detail design phases. He consulted with Rawson Marshall Thurber, director of the Hollywood movie “Skyscraper”, sharing design considerations when creating a super tall tower based on real possibilities.
“Successful building design should explore a complementary composition of engineering and artistic sculpting that minimizes negative environmental impact, maximizes building functionality and incorporates human comfort principles”
