FORM

The concept of energy-conscious architecture and design has conventionally always originated at the ground - the location of the project. The contemporary goals for sustainable architecture have created a new site-specificity for buildings. The siting of the mass, the form, initiates a passive design strategy that is fine-tuned through the application of advanced technologies. 

 

The issue with site-specificity in our current building practice is the false positioning of energy in the developement of the project - the site becomes a set of constraints to be mitigated for the maximum reduction of kBTUs or kWhs, creating a binary and oppositional relationship between the occupant and the ambient conditions of the spaces which should disappear in the interaction with the building's user. The environment of architecture thus becomes a set of components to be properly placed in the building.

 

The approach to site in FITNESS is one of symbiosis. Rather than developing a single design bespoke for a specific site, FITNESS uses the variation of our globe's climate dynamics to generate a massing that utilizes the environment as a catalyst for the energy performance within the volume.

Site, in FITNESS, is climate.