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Torturo from three palms. Yeah, he's working on a three-palm project with
Brian Cranston. It's gonna be an exciting day so we're gonna keep this intro short
and we can start off by talking a little bit about the current state of design.
Yeah. I think that what's obvious to everybody is that we're trying to focus
on sustainable design because we need that in our lives more than ever and
there are designers who understand their role in that sense and they're trying
to create and come up with solutions that encourage responsible choices. You
talk about living responsibly or living a green lifestyle and people think that
you're you're living in a yurt and you're wearing hemp clothes and there's a
toilet outside and the goal for me was and and my wife and my family was to be
able to have people come into our home and be amazed that this is a green
lifestyle home. Yeah and to me one of the interesting takeaways so far is
hearing about how when you think of sustainable a lot of people think about
okay it's it's energy efficient it's going to to benefit the the earth and
everything like that but you're not you're not thinking of the actual that it's
going to be sustainable and it's gonna last and be durable yeah and that's
that seemed to be a big point here a lot of the designers and architects are
talking about using materials and things in homes that it's gonna last and 20
years from now you're gonna have something that looks great yeah and is
lasting. Part of the green philosophy is not just whatever is is cheaper what
you want to do is sustain that so by having titanium it was more expensive
to start but this is a house that we plan to be in for the rest of my life so
there's virtually no maintenance so you don't have to have a crew come out and
polish it and clean it using fossil fuels for that you don't have to use
chemicals. With the Kynar painted aluminum we would have to repaint it
periodically it's gonna take a beating at the beach it'll last with any of these
other materials there's a maintenance factor and this is a very strong component
of lead and green design. The keyword there is durability. The durability of the
material. If we have to come back and replace those materials in 10 years we
just add it to the waste stream we just had the client have to pay more money
and and so we've always tried to balance upfront cost and upfront decisions
with long a longer term perspective right because we need to be building
buildings that last hundreds of years not that are disposable in 50 years. So
let's show everyone take a walk around yeah and talk to some people and get
into our interview.
Blue Homes builds modern green precision built houses and we build them at a
reasonable economical price with very healthy features for all Americans we
are the biggest company right now in the modern green prefab industry what
makes Blue Homes really different from any other companies that are trying to
build green houses is that we allow our clients to design everything online in
3d with an awesome configuration tool that no one even comes close to it's a
fantastic tool that allows clients to make all the selections on their own see
all the pricing on their own and design really sustainable features into their
houses which our team has curated and thought through in a really careful way
with a lot of research in combination with our 3d design technology one of
the most important things that blue does is we build out of steel in a way that
allows us to ship buildings really narrowly so we ship it eight and a half
feet wide but we have much bigger wider spaces we actually unfold our buildings
so that you can have 18 to 19 foot wide modules that then combine to make 30 to
40 foot wide spaces huge tall ceilings so we are generally at 13 14 15 16 feet
high ceilings that really breaks the mold of traditional prefab in a really
distinctive way and the only way that we can do that is that we build out of
steel which is a very unique trait of our of our homes and we're building in a
way that's using this 3d software so that we can unfold our homes make really
high ceilings lots of glass which is enabled as well by the steel and really
design something that it feels light and airy and beautiful and healthy to live
in
I'm Graham Smith I'm with Sustain Design Studio and this is the mini home it's a
modular factory built product conforming to the California building
code and also to the US HUD code so it can go on any residential property
anywhere in the United States or into a mobile park setting as well we exceed
the US building code for building envelope performance so it's a very
efficient structure to live in also because it's factory built it has a
very very minimal waste that's a very efficient build and a very very compact
living space which is kind of reducing your carbon footprint by reducing the
footprint of the building typically we're seeing people using them as guest
houses in-law suites for children who've just left college and you know can't
afford their own homes yet and then of course as vacation properties these
things are absolutely spectacular when they're planted in the wilderness and
we can do a fully grid-connected solution or we can provide off-grid
solutions as well
my name is chally stillman I'm the design director of resource furniture I
help people in their homes I do home consultations for design I also help
design the showroom both in New York as well as in our other locations in
Canada and Hong Kong and and help with all of the booths at various fairs here
resource furniture is a company based in New York that's our flagship showroom we
carry a line of beds by clay an Italian manufacturer who's been creating these
for 50 years they're beds that fold up into the wall but also serve double duty
so instead of the old Murphy bed system where you still have to rearrange your
furniture when the bed is up this creates a second purpose on the front of
the bed so all of the beds fold up into a foot of space and then you're left
with a regular you know living room dining room you can use it in multiple
ways so what's so eco-friendly about this system is that you can downsize you
can scale down still feel comfortable your furniture is stylish and it's long
lasting we have a lifetime warranty everything can be disassembled moved
with you if you ever move and it's all E1 formaldehyde emissions so no off
gassing the mattresses we have organic mattresses and it's a really
comfortable everyday bed solution with a slat system that lifts and aerates your
mattress so it's a healthy sleeping system that is meant for everyday use
hi my name is Sarah Brady I'm the associate development director with
architecture for humanity we are a 13 year old nonprofit organization that
assists communities in construction and design of structures that they wouldn't
otherwise normally be able to afford and we work directly with the community
to build anything from schools to health clinics to community centers and to
sports for social change projects so we recently released the second edition of
our book design like you give a damn and it is a compendium of very inspiring
projects from the United States and around the world about projects that
make a difference locally in communities that are facing some challenges in terms
of poverty or sanitation or education and the book provides a lot of factual
information as well about how to get your own project funded about how much
these projects cost where they're located and the different partners involved
anybody wanting to get involved can contact us directly through our website
architectureforhumanity.org and we also have local chapters in more than 50
cities around the world so on our website we also list where there are
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audiobook today. So we're here we're John Torturo can you tell us a little bit
about yourself your personal background and how you grew up to be an amazing
architectural designer? Well thank you for the amazing part I appreciate that I
don't know that's the jury still out on the amazing okay but you know I I started
in the law I was UCLA with a polysine major pre-law history minor on my way to
law school like the rest of my family and one night in my apartment in Venice
Beach I thought clearly about things and I had two applications I might ask one
was for Southwestern School of Law in Los Angeles the other was for design
school and I wiped the law school application away and filled out the
design school application to UCLA and San Diego now this was terrible for my
family because everyone except my brother my uncle everybody's a lawyer so
after my father got out of the emergency room we started to talk serious
about they accepted and I've been in design ever since it's been almost 30
years. Wow that's great so now you're involved in this project three palms
project can you tell us a little bit about the project what it is what you're
doing and what who are the people behind behind it? Yes this is why we're here at
Dwell of course and in Los Angeles a great opportunity for us we've been
attending Dwell for several years to research assembly systems materials for
our own project they approached us and said we'd like you to present your
project so to be as a presenter it's different I'm the project designer for
the whole thing and my areas are the architecture interior landscape design
lighting systems and we've got a team assembly of engineers draftsmen marketing
people our client is a celebrity client as you know so we decided to take
advantage of that and the marketing opportunities associated by forming
partnerships with our suppliers and this is part of the reason Dwell was
interested our suppliers are their suppliers or their clients right so
there's a natural synergy there and here we are we're excited about it we're
talking to them now about an issue you know thing in the magazine as well and
you're you're building what is going to be a lead platinum certified house for
audience who doesn't know what exactly does that mean and what kind of
technologies and things are you doing to it to make it well our client has
driven this Brian Cranston said to our team in the beginning I want the highest
level of green building we can achieve I want to do it smart but I want to get
there and we responded we said well that's platinum lead in the United
States passive house us if you want to get crazy and start the European model
and we're approaching both platinum lead and us passive house so we are one of
we're not sure of this you know don't quote me we got a check I think about 50
or so homes in the continental us that would achieve this designation and the
only one that I know of in the region here in Southern California so there is
the interest behind how to get to platinum lead you need a lot of lead
points you need a lot of lead APs approved providers in their discipline
to review your project and make sure you are meeting those requirements for lead
platinum certification and they're stringent and it costs a little more
adds a little more to the project typically about 10 to 15,000 for a
platinum lead certification so the owner has to be willing the team has to
be knowledgeable and on board and we're fast approaching the highest level
green building for residential design. What's some of your favorite parts in
the house that are are helping achieve that and also what are some of the
difficult things to reach that lead certification what's been some of the
roadblocks so far? Well yes some of the best things about it are of course the
passive systems with passive house we don't rely on mechanics or engineering
we rely on the sun and the wind and nature so the beginning of green design
for me and certainly for this house begins with nature I spend time on the
side I track the solar course of the sun in the sky we look for the prevailing
wind we look at the landscape features and what might block you know what we're
trying to do and then we we identify a building type in design with fenestration
and bare circulation that's going to take complete advantage of the natural
environment of the site that's the beginning if you do nothing else in
green design but honor centuries-old principles in practical building which is
to work with the sun and the wind you'll get a pretty green house over and
above that all the systems the photovoltaic array on the roof which is
16 panel array we're set to be a net zero house which means we'll be putting
energy we'll be using less and putting what we what percentage we make over back
into the energy grid we've got pre-hot water heating for solar panels for the
radiant floor heating system and other hot water in the house we've got rain
water reclamation and 600 gallon tanks located beneath the home so we can use
for irrigation the run-off in the county we're working we can't have gray water
reclamation they're not very they don't believe it but they're allowing the
rain water yes so those are some of the big systems we put in it's a lot of
little things too well not so little the sips walls the structurally insulated
panel systems are very high our our value for a home of this type and the
insulation we've used right the icene that blows in on a water-based medium
between the studs and walls the airtight seals the house from leakage in the
now and it prevents mold and mildew from collecting and moist leak areas within
the wall space very important in the marine environment which is what this
house is and I think as you said earlier that's if you're building a new home
making sure that it's sealed properly is one of the cheapest ways oh yeah
increase everyone can do a lot of that even without replacing windows you know
you can just go through and sealant caulking and rest but you know a good
thing to do if you're gonna start on your own home we mentioned it during our
talk today is a home energy audit where you hire an energy professional group to
come in they'll analyze your home they do a flow test and see where the smoke
gets out and they'll give you a list of recommendations to make your home better
more efficient that we can all do beyond that's new construction and there you
get into assembly systems and technologies you were talking earlier
about those constraints you are working with constraints and trying to solve
problem every day is like making a decision with those constraints in mind
and we're talking about making it sustainable efficient durable and all
everything related to like getting approval for certain things so my
question is what type of constraint did drive that decision process overall the
most well you know for us the marine environment was the biggest challenge
I mean aside from the county and the permitting and all that you'd expect in
normal construction project this is a very harsh environment it's among the
harshest on surface materials water especially salt water is the enemy of
architecture right and it's constantly assaulting the metals the finishes the
surface material inside and out so from the beginning we start researching and
providing materials that are gonna do the best in the marine environment and
this is a key component in sustainable design you're not filling a landfill with
galvanized metals and lesser products that are only gonna last seven to twelve
years you're using products like titanium that add a little to the initial cost
and then we reduce the gauge instead of using a thick gauge you can use a very
thin gauge of the material and then it's almost equal to marine grade stainless
so the environment is the challenge that was the biggest challenge and building
to that right yeah yeah and you also talked about a building the house
sustainable and durable but also you talked about how the house needs to not
reflect a current fad or fashion trend what is what was like the favorite your
favorite decision they had to make relate to the design so that you make it
durable in that sense that's so important because you know in my work and some
of my colleagues we don't I don't follow trend fashion it's nice to see what
new colors are coming out and the lime green and the orange and the blue but
when you get to be my age yeah think back to harvest gold from the 1970s
alvacato green from the 1980s it can period date your house yeah and when
you're talking about architectural backgrounds and surface materials and
my philosophy is to remain neutral right and to do things that are proven
classics that are gonna remain and you know if you go back to that home in 16
20 years it's gonna be okay it may even still be intact I've been asked to
remodel a house I designed 16 years ago in Ohio and the buyers found my name in
a drawer in the kitchen called 16 years later we turned the house together the
cabinets are still there the flooring still there the plumbing fixtures are
still there the poles are still there the doors the windows we're gonna do some
you know refurbishing and add a wing to the house and they're gonna keep all the
cabinetry sinks faucets and hardware from the original design 16 years ago
that makes me feel as if I've done my job with I'm saving things from landfill
by creating these sort of timeless I know it's a cliche but in a sense neutral
of modern designs that are gonna stand the test of time can you can you say
with confidence that designers have the power to change certain current issues
like I don't know finding a sustainable solution or the resources problems or do
you think designers have the power to change the current state of society and
come up with solutions that are durable I don't feel like I have any power but
I'd like some if it's possible well I mean you you make choices in the
profession yeah and you educate your client that goes both ways yeah we
learn from the client as well we're introduced to new systems and sources
because they saw something or they take a late late view not a studied view of
the project and open your eyes to something you didn't realize and you
say well I thought you couldn't do that maybe we can do that so there's that
exchange but the responsibility of the designer is to make sustainable choices
now for the project for the client and that's where our power lies and showing
them some of these systems and products and materials that we know are gonna last
be sustainable in their manufacture and last in the durability of the house okay
thank you for the interview and we're looking forward to see the house
finished well you know at three comms project comm yep you can watch the
project of this and there are links to everything and all of our partners it's
been fun for me to see the project evolve and I hope you will tune in and take a
look yeah watch for it and dwell I'm not sure but we're talking to the editors it
looks like they make future this well cool this was fun thank you for all right
thank you thank you so much thank you thank you thank you great talking thank
you well done that was our tour as well on design what was your favorite thing
from here for me it was really cool to be able to go in some of the prefab
homes and take a look at it and get an idea of what that's like and for the
most part they're a lot smaller than the average home in the US at least what
someone would be expecting but with that smaller living space they're learning
to be more efficient and use the space as best as possible and for me that
concept is something that's really interesting and I can see how a designer
can have a lot of fun with that right and being able to make sure that all the
space is being used in the best way and I also really like what resource was doing
with the the fold-out beds and and changeable rooms basically because of
that point yeah yeah right well related to resources furniture I think what
they're doing is they're playing with the idea of multi-functionality in
furniture and designing furniture and I think that's that's a concept that
designers are going to adopt even more and more yeah because you can afford you
cannot afford to buy one object that does one thing anymore you need to to
think about how functional smart it is in every other way yeah my favorite thing
here is architecture for humanity it's a non-profit organization and I like their
message because I think that all they take today is for somebody to take
initiative and said and say that we can do this together and that empowers
designers in the first place to stand out and come up with solutions that can
solve a lot of problems today including poverty education and I think that what
they're doing is great and I think it's the right time to do that yeah so overall
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