Energy Neutral Portable Classroom (in-progress)
This portable classroom is designed to provide an optimized educational environment for students and teachers while advancing sustainable design principles. The classroom maximally conserves as well as collects and generates natural resources, including electrical energy, daylight, wind energy, and rainwater. As well as being strong, efficient and conserving, natural forces and resources are highlighted and [...]
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Tufts University SIS Building
Tufts University commissioned a relocatable building to accommodate Student Information Systems training and office space. After initially exploring the use of leased off-campus commercial office space for this program, Tufts approached the design-build team of Anderson Anderson Architecture and Triumph Modular to help explore options for creating needed office space on-campus in a very tight [...]
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LIPS TOWER
As fresh water resources rapidly diminish world wide, cities require new strategies for collecting, storing and distributing clean drinking water. This issue is most pressing in dense urban areas with limited available ground space, increasingly distant from secure and efficiently available natural aquifers. In most cities substantial energy resources are expended in routing and pumping [...]
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Harvard Yard Child Care Center
This is a Modular Green School Building
A HEALTHY INDOOR ENVIRONMENT is provided by carefully selecting materials, equipment and construction methods. Air quality is maintained with non-toxic construction materials, finish surfaces and paints containing low levels or no volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Factory construction in a weather-protected facility avoided exposure of materials and systems to [...]
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Montara House
Self-built by the owner’s family, this concrete house overlooks the Pacific Ocean just south of San Francisco. Located on a small hillside site with stringent community zoning restrictions, the home gently contorts to maximize light and view within the complex zoning envelope and design restrictions. The frequently fogbound and chilly site required a sheltering form [...]
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PGA Prairie Hopper
PGA Prairie Hopper
This environmental education pavilion is a pre-fabricated, portable, off-grid, structure showcasing innovative green technology. The pavilion will fold-up, be transported as a shipping container and be re-deployed at a series of sports events, providing shade, two-story views, refreshments and environmental education for diverse public communities not ordinarily exposed to advanced green technology and [...]
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EnormousPlasticRainFlower, U.C. Berkeley
269 Urban Water Seminar, Fall 2009, Mark Anderson
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Architecture
The business of architecture often attempts to justify its role in the economy by describing itself as a profession of efficient problem solvers. Although few clients believe this and actually bet their money on it, the concept still warps the profession in many [...]
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Autodesk Gallery
Autodesk Gallery at One Market, San Francisco
A media-intensive, 16,000 square foot exhibition space for digital design and fabrication, this project was delivered under a fast track, design-build, Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) contract. The design and construction process took place entirely using collaborative Building Information Modeling (BIM). The project consists of exhibition galleries, artist-in-residence digital design [...]
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B-House in Shimasaki
B-House in Shimasaki, Kyushu Island, Japan
This two bedroom, one bath home built for two public school teachers on a hillside overlooking Kumamoto, Japan is planned to become fully energy self-sufficient once all designed systems are phased in. The construction budget of US$154,000 an extremely modest budget by local Kumamoto standards—required a close collaboration of the [...]