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State and Legislative Action

Rebecca Bauer-Kahan is an assemblywoman elected in 2018 and supports the 16th Assembly District in California in parts of Contra Costa and Alameda counties. Bauer-Kahan argued for a California bill about an environmental preserve and land steward and bill 1086 was introduced by her along with the Sierra Club. Unfortunately Gavin Newsom vetoed the bill. This issue is a state issue, with no events of the national government involved. It is possible that the bill could involve the federal government because the state governor was involved, but there isn’t any national information on this problem. I do agree with this issue, because Gavin Newsom basically is still letting California ruin the environment and the state as a whole by vetoing this bill. Bauer-Kahan wants to expand a trail that covers most of her district, and to make the trail more user-friendly. This trail is called the Iron Horse Trail.

Steve Glazer is part of the California State Senate and was elected in 2015. He was re-elected for two more years in 2016 by winning 67% of the vote in California’s 7th Senate District. Glazer helped Contra Costa County with PG& E’s power shutdown due to the wildfires, and not all power was shut off due to PG& E, but to broken power lines. Glazer made sure to help PG& E to restore or put new power lines in areas where they were broken. This is a state issue, but this topic has been shown nationally and even globally. This issue has been national before, but in a bad way, where Trump blamed California. Instead of representing California in a good way and Trump told the state how to prevent wildfires, so it just caused more wildfires after the big wildfire in 2018. I agree with this issue because PG& E is only doing this to help us prevent fires, but there’s still more that has to be done to completely prevent a fire. Glazer has a bill that he wants to prohibit smoking in all California State Parks, which could also prevent wildfires in the parks and make them healthy.

One California bill that relates to my issue of endagered species is Senate Bill No. 62. This bill was introduced on July 30, 2019. This bill was to take Endangered Species to be related to other programs involved in agriculture within the state’s protection. This bill makes me happy because some animals, if you really get close to them they can be threatened and with these types of animals, they only live in one specific area. If these animals are threatened, they can die and that means that they’ll become extinct. I would make sure my friends will keep enough space away from animals that are endangered because people like me care about the animal life as much as we care about the human life so I would put this bill into place.

Mark DeSaulnier, our congressman has been supportive of the energy and environment. In fact, he used to be a resident of the California Air Resources Board as well as the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, so he is good at serving in policies that secure our environment and talks a lot about the ongoing problem of climate change. DeSaulnier had a relation with a bill related to the Endangered Species Act where he supported many colleagues in the United States Congress arguing about dangerous materials for the environment to be removed before the bill is finalized. I do agree with this bill because it is not okay to have dangerous materials involved because that can kill animals and if endangered animals are killed, they become extinct and that’s a bad thing.

One of our State Senators, Kamala Harris, served in a climate change rally. On the 29th of July, Harris along with representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Climate Equality Act, draft legislation to make the national government in charge of ensuring that front-line areas are in the middle of environmental and climate-related rules, policies, enforcements and investments.

Diane Feinstein, our other Senator, has a big solution to resolving climate change. Feinstein points out that it is not disputable that global warming exist and people were the reason this happened. Feinstein had a bill along with Maine Senator Susan M. Collins and eight other bipartisan senators in 2008 introduced a resolution designating the 16th of May as the 3rd annual “Endangered Species Day”. I think that this day is beneficial because it’s just there to help the endangered species to still live on and not be extinct, so this day is beneficial as it also raises awareness. Both Harris and Feinstein talked with New Mexico Senator Tom Udall along with seven other colleagues on September 17th in introducing legislation to repeal three of the Trump Administrations’ official policy alterations about the Endangered Species Act. These three changes taken together will change the way we secure endangered and threatened animals in a fundamental way. I like this team effort because it is good to protect the million of the species that could become extinct.

On the Countable website, there are many articles that relate to my issue. The issue I chose was Senate Bill 2539. This is U.S.A.’s rule toward Tibet that requires updating in light of new challenges posed by the Chinese Communist Party actions towards Tibetans. This bill will upgrade and strengthen U.S.A.’s rules to help Tibetans to ensure that the U.S.A. is responsible for peoples’ rights, religious freedoms and cultural protection in Tibet. I am unsure what I would vote in this case because I’m not totally sure what Tibet’s government structure is. There is no information provided on where this bill was originated. One person said that America needs to begin to fight back against China’s ugly oppression towards their people, their tales, and how they’ve treated Tibet. This bill is currently at U.S.A.’s government. This is related to endangered species because it relates to the ongoing event of climate change

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justinelucasmusic · 5 years ago

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Happy First Friday!!

If you live in the Bay Area or Santa Cruz, you should do the art walk and see local art tonight!!! In honor of first friday, I'd like to share a vlog I did about the art walk in santa cruz last month, just published today!

Starring music by Sound Underground (Jonah Udall, David Leon, and Alec Aldred) and SambaDa! Special appearances by Kat Factor as well as Stella Marie and the Telegraph Wires.

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NFL scores yesterday

The main NFL Championship Game. The Bears won, 9-0. With a season finisher game prompting an effective consummation of the time, the association updated its framework in 1933, isolating itself from the two its past nfl.bite and school football. Presently the groups in the association were isolated into divisions, the Eastern Division and Western Division (however the association was still restricted to the point that the westernmost groups were in the Midwest). This now-recognizable configuration was a triumph, and the division victors (New York Giants and Chicago Bears) met in the Championship Game, which the Bears won 23-21.

This new construction was an enormous achievement, and with season finisher hurries to follow, fans got on. Groups started to change too. A few nflbites groups from the 20s and 30s tumbled off and vanished from the NFL completely, while others sprung up afterward likewise on the East Coast and in the Midwest - and ended up contending. The groups in NFL Championship Games during the 30s and 40s might look natural. In addition to the Bears and Giants, however the Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins too A prospering game, the NFL at long last moved out west in 1946 when Cleveland Rams proprietor Dan Reeves took steps to leave football completely in the event that the association wouldn't allow him to migrate the group to Los Angeles. He yielded, and by 1949 the Los Angeles Rams were in a Championship Game.

The game was extending broadly.Isolation in the NFL isn't examined as much as isolation in baseball. However, the mid-1930s into the 40s saw no dark players in the association, a period of complete isolation in the NFL.The primary group to make progress toward finishing isolation was the now-Los Angeles Rams, but forcibly: Plessy v. Ferguson nfl bite implied the L.A. Open air theater couldn't rent their arena to a group that was totally isolated. In this way, in 1946 they marked previous UCLA star Kenny Washington in March, and Woody Strode in May.Other NFL groups were delayed to incorporate their programs. Then again, a large portion of the groups in the All-America Football Conference had figured out

how to coordinate their groups in the last part of the 40s. The AAFC later shut down and collapsed 3 groups into the NFL: the Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Colts a nd San Francisco 49ers. Most groups had started incorporating gradually by the mid 50s. The exemption, incredibly, was the Washington Redskins. Washington proprietor George Marshall, a man in a real sense known for being bigoted more than whatever else, relentlessly would not sign or draft dark players. This drawn out as far as possible until 1962, when Stewart Udall - the secretary of the inside for the majority of the 1960s - took steps to renounce the group's rent on the arena, really expelling them. Marshall had to yield.

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architectnews · 3 years ago

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Scott Sutherland School of Architecture: RGU

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture News, RGU Aberdeen Student Work, Campus Development

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture

Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen – MArch course ; SSA Event, North East Scotland

18 September 2021

The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment at RGU celebrate the class of 2020 / 21 with a digital exhibition

Pashara Gunasekera:

RGU Scott Sutherland School Digital Exhibition

The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment at Robert Gordon University is hosting a virtual exhibition to celebrate the class of 2020/ 21 which launches to coincide with the school’s virtual open day on Saturday 18 September.

Visitors to the Scott Sutherland Digital Exhibition can immerse themselves in a dynamic virtual exhibition and explore a selection of exciting work from architecture students in years 1 – 3 and 5 – 6. The exhibition has been built by a team of students and lecturers at the school and showcases an imaginative range of work from the past year.

The exhibition highlights ‘The Living Fabric’ Masters project which builds upon last year’s ‘Living Edge’ proposals to improve Aberdeen’s beach front. Under the new plans, Aberdeen’s harbour waterfront area would be transformed. Industry would be moved to the south harbour development and new spaces, with key views and vistas, created for the public to enjoy the harbour’s edge. Entertainment, shopping and activities would replace industry and ‘green routes’ would link the city centre, beach and harbour front. A car free zone, dedicated to pedestrians and cyclists, would be built and a new auto tram network created along the route. More affordable housing, centred around a new village of St.Clements would encourage people to live in the city centre.

Emily Marshall:

The exhibition also includes plans to improve the sustainability of Aberdeen’s King Street as one of the main routes leading out of the city centre. Under the Stage 5 plans, this congested city centre street, would be transformed into three 15-minute city zones. A better sense of community would be created to improve people’s well-being. An ‘Artisan’ zone, centred, around the arts centre, comedy club and performance venue, The Lemon Tree’ would be established. Another “University” section, would focus on education including Aberdeen University whilst the 3rd ‘Residential’ section, would celebrate the urban character of this north part of the site.

Marco Paz:

Head of the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment, Professor David McClean, said: “Visitors can explore a dynamic collection of imaginative work ranging from work to transform Aberdeen city centre to other projects in Orkney and the Western Isles. As one of the longest established schools of its kind in the UK, The Scott Sutherland School provides an outstanding grounding in architecture.

“As the work in this exhibition demonstrates, our students develop skills and techniques that equip them well for their future professional lives,and harness their creativity in the production of progressive ideas and proposals that are of value to the community.”

Marie Airth:

Other highlights from the show include designs for a zero-carbon hotel produced by first year students from the Architectural Technology course. The students have created designs which embrace a healthy lifestyle, zero carbon footprint whilst also tackling the challenges of COVID-19. The aim was to adopt sustainable technologies in their buildings and to use on-site energy creation be it in the materials, construction and life of the building. The group explored wind and solar energy sources and new material including timber, low carbon concrete and even algae in the design of the hotels. One student proposed a self-sufficient hotel with an urban farm whilst another designed a carbon neutral boutique hotel.

Elsewhere in the exhibition, visitors can explore projects from the Scott Sutherland School’s Orkney Unit. Stage 5 architecture students set out plans to build a sustainable green future in the Finstown area of ‘Mainland’, the biggest island of the Orkney Islands through a project known as ‘Pomono’, the ancient name for Orkney and re-imagine horticulture on the island. Stage 6, final year architecture students explore the sense of community in Kirkwall Centre. Another group explore Brinkies Brae in Stromnes and propose reinstating Udal Law, where the strip of land from the sea to the top of the hill is divided in to five sections, to create a sustainable, community-based way of living.

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Another project, the Seaweed Farm, proposes creating a new self-powering platform to cultivate, harvest and produce seaweed products. The project would create a new skilled industry for Stromness. A seaweed hatchery would cultivate seaweed which would be harvested off-shore before being transported to Hamnavoe Bay to dry naturally on a series of floating drying racks. It could then be transported back and processed at Stromness to produce a range of products including seaweed food, cosmetics, fertiliser and compost. The project would be self-powered using biogas created from biodegradable seaweed and using a water source heat pump.

Dominic Skinner:

The exhibition also showcases work from the Outer Hebrides Unit and explores ways of making the island more sustainable and tackles issues such as an aging demographic, housing shortage, economic challenges, climate change and suggests way to generate self-sufficiency and to improve food production and energy.

The exhibition can be accessed for free via https://ift.tt/3tR2Hra. The Scott Sutherland School is taking part in RGU’s virtual open day on Saturday 18 September and on-campus open days on 2nd October and 30th November. To register, visit www.rgu.ac.uk/opendays.

Visit the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture to find out more: (https://ift.tt/3CprfuC)

14 June 2021

RGU students win national architecture competition

to feature at UN C0P26 Climate Change Conference

Architecture students from Robert Gordon University are celebrating winning a national competition for highly energy efficient buildings that will feature at the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow later this year.

Four students from Robert Gordon University’s Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment have won the prestigious ‘Icebox Challenge Glasgow’ award, after designing a vibrant energy efficient building.

The ‘Icebox Challenge Glasgow’ is a competition open to students from across Scotland who were challenged with creating a building that was both innovative and eye-catching. The competition asked students to design one structure built to Scottish Building Standards and another built to a more environmentally friendly, ‘Passive House’ standard.

The structures will be left outside for three weeks, each holding an equal amount of ice. When opened, the amount of ice left in each box will be measured. How much ice remains will demonstrate how well each ice box keeps out the heat.

The team of architecture students from Robert Gordon University’s Scott Sutherland School created a winning design celebrating a traditional highland building using timber, herringbone cladding, stained red, green, and yellow, that was inspired by the natural colours of the highlands. They also took inspiration from the Integra House designed by RGU Professor Gokay Deveci.

From left to right – Icebox Challenge Glasgow entry designers – Kyle Henderson, Lina Khairy, Matt Clubb & Alina Vinogradova:

Each of the two structures designed by the RGU Architecture students will be built by the students at the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre in Glasgow before being put on public display in St.Enoch’s Square Glasgow from 19 July to 8 August. This will run ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26.

One of the winners, mature architecture student, Matthew Clubb, from Aberdeenshire said; “I am absolutely thrilled that students at RGU have won the ‘Icebox Challenge Glasgow’. We have worked hard as a team to create a building that is vibrant aesthetically and embraces passive design and prefabrication.

“We drew inspiration from the Scottish Highlands and incorporated design features and materials that would minimise our building’s embodied carbon. It is fantastic that our designs will be showcased and built at a public installation in Glasgow city centre ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference.”

Head of The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment, Professor David McClean said: “We are delighted that a group of architect students from Robert Gordon University has won this exciting national competition and will gain international exposure. The climate imperative occupies an increasingly central position in the education of architects, and in practice itself, and it is wonderful to see students motivated to engage creatively in this way and of their own volition.

“In the face of advancing climate change, the design of energy efficient buildings is now more important than ever. Building substantially on our research expertise, the School is constantly reinforcing the development of knowledge and skills in sustainable practices across the breadth of its curricula. I am delighted that the judges of the Icebox Challenge Glasgow, have recognised our talent and that our students’ work will be showcased to a global audience ahead of the UN Climate Change summit in Glasgow.”

Yogini Patel from the Passivhaus Trust said: “Passivhaus is a proven solution to slash energy use, back by three decades of performance evidence from across the globe. Efficiency is crucial to meet net-zero carbon targets. The Icebox Challenge has travelled the globe, and this year comes to Glasgow in the run up to COP26. Student design competitions like this offer valuable opportunities for our next generation of architects and designers to get inspired by the climate action they can engage in. We anticipate the public installation will capture people’s attention, facilitate vital discussions and, raise awareness of the impact of simple solutions such as Passivhaus.”

The winning group of students from Robert Gordon’s University included mature student Matt Clubb, Lina Khairy, aged 23, Alina Vinogradova aged 28 and Kyle Henderson, aged 23.

In addition to gaining international exposure thanks to the run-up to COP26 and involvement from the International Passive House Association, the winning group will be awarded £1000 from the Glasgow Institute of Architects (GIA) after the fabrication and public display stages.

The ‘Icebox Challenge Glasgow’ is run by the International Passive House Association and The Passivhaus Trust, who are a global network of architects, planners, scientists, and contractors in partnership with Edinburgh Napier University.

The group strive to promote Building Passive which means building better! The aim of the competition is to create an energy efficient building that was judged on design, cost-effectiveness, innovation, energy supply and sustainability. More information can be found at https://iceboxchallenge.org/

#EfficiencyFirst This competition is part of “Efficiency: The First Renewable Energy #EfficiencyFirst”, a campaign organised in 2021 by the iPHA Network which consists of a series of activities and events to promote the significance of an efficiency first approach.

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26 May 2021

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture Non-Fungible Tokens – NFTs

RGU architecture students among first in the world to release their work as NFTs

Students from Robert Gordon University’s (RGU) Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment will be among the first in the world to release their work as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).

The students, studying MSc Advanced Architectural Design, have been developing a series of forward-looking projects for the North East of Scotland and have now released their work on the OpenSea.io NFT marketplace.

Castleton high tower design:

NFTs are unique digital objects which are housed on a blockchain, the technology behind cryptocurrencies. They are best described as a registration licence number for a particular unique object.

NFTs provide a platform for artists to break through previously inaccessible markets, or in this case, for architectural designers creating original designs.

NFTs are currently trending due to the sale of popular digital assets such as the first ever tweet by the founder of Twitter and the original image behind the 2005 Disaster Girl meme.

The students, inspired by the theme “automata”, have designed hyperloop and vertiport stations, high-rise towers and community centres in Aberdeen. These architectural designs address future challenges, with a particular focus on zero-carbon issues.

Theo Dounas, Learning Excellence Leader at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment, commented: “Our work on the applications of blockchain technologies in architectural design expose the MSc AAD students to the cutting edge of digital tools that can be used for design and design management.

Hyperloop design:

“To connect our research into building information modelling and blockchain with our day to day teaching activities in the MSc Advanced Architectural Design, we set up a week-long, intensive workshop where the students were able to design and model their own designs on the blockchain.

“The students were excited about the workshop and working with blockchain technologies, as it allowed them to develop new business and operational models for architectural designers and their engagement with decentralized communities.”

The Scott Sutherland School has already built mechanisms to create NFTs for building components and use the blockchain as an information layer for a circular economy for the Architecture Engineering and Construction Industry.

Additionally, the School recently hosted the second research workshop in blockchain in construction along with the Construction Blockchain Consortium.

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18 + 17 Dec 2017

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture Master of Architecture Unit 2 Work

Unit 2 Scott Sutherland “Home”

We present current work of Year 5 of my Unit 2 at Scott Sutherland “Home”.

Penny Lewis and Professor Alan Dunlop worked to change the MArch to a full two year, four semester course of study on a single project to allow greater time to do full research work which would benefit students doing their individual projects but be of such high quality that it could be published and accessed.

Year 5 are working on a project looking in depth at social housing, in the UK and International, and into precedent, procurement, developer interest, urban housing, best practice and so on. They will also produce a database which can be accessed beyond Scott Sutherland. The purpose of the study is to allow these young architects to be fully informed on a critical issue affecting architecture, practice and society. They have worked as a group so far but will begin on their individual projects next semester.

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture Master of Architecture Unit 2 Exhibition Publication Zine:

Their exhibition opened on Thursday and will go to The Lighthouse, Glasgow, shortly.

Their website which will develop further as the project itself continues: https://ift.tt/2T9gdIn

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Architects “are never taught the right thing” “Universities are failing to give architects the training that will enable them to find solutions for an imminent global housing crisis. Poverty, population growth, natural disasters and war are combining to create demand for more than a billion homes.” “But architects are unable to overcome the challenges posed by politics, economics and building codes to deliver viable solutions. It would be great, with more than one million architects in the world, that more solutions and more proposals try to address the issue” 2016 Pritzker laureate Alejandro Aravena.“

“I try to create homes, not houses.” Louis Kahn

17 Dec 2016

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture Master of Architecture Unit 2

School: Architecture Informed by Education

The work of Alan Dunlop’s Master of Architecture Unit 2 in Scott Sutherland, informed by recent UK school issues: Oxgangs, PFI, PPP, the 17 Edinburgh school closures, BBC Investigates “How Safe is My School” and the recent about turn by Michael Gove, SFT and EDC:

The structure of the MArch course involves a two year period of in-depth study on a single project, which Alan thinks is relevant to a contemporary issue in architecture. Research, design and in depth study starting this year will focus on school design, worldwide.

So, for four semesters years 5 and 6 work on a single brief: School design, procurement, construction, Curriculum for Excellence, Scottish Futures Trust.

Semester 1 as a research unit.

Semester 2 focusing on individual design projects.

Semester 3 individual Projects then taken to an advanced level and high technical resolution.

Semester 4 in depth research work in a single topic of their choice.

To start, the unit undertook global research work on school design and gathered information and did a comparative study of the following in a range of countries identified by the students.

The educational policy (approach and teaching methods) The procurement system (current and proposed) The programme (school type, numbers, facilities) The construction method

Semester 1 research work now to be published in three books: 01 Research and Analysis; 02 Precedent Studies; 03 Design Interventions and supported by an exhibition, web site and models. Books will be sent out to Scottish Government and others involved in procurement of school buildings, educationalists and teachers. Web site online early in New Year. Exhibition to RIAS, various schools, those involved in school procurement, councils and hopefully the RIBA.

18 May 2012

Scott Sutherland Big Crit

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture Event

Architects of the future present designs to the public in ‘Big Crit’ Public event bucks the trend of ‘unfashionable’ debates

Students at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen will present their designs for review to high profile members of the architecture profession in a public event on Friday 18 May.

The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment is giving members of the public the unique opportunity to witness reviews of student design projects by a distinguished panel in it’s annual ‘Big Crit’ event. The day-long public discussion includes individual presentations and reviews of work from all year groups to learn lessons and influence future projects. To help reflect on the design proposals, the School invites a number of high profile architects and critics from industry to talk about the student work in the context of broader discussions about contemporary architecture and urbanism.

The panel this year includes renowned international architects Charlie Sutherland, Joe Morris and Pier Vittorio Aureli, as well as Scott Sutherland Visiting Professors Neil Gillespie OBE and Alan Dunlop. Deputy Editor of The Architects’ Journal and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Rory Olcayto, will also be on hand to offer his comments.

Neil Lamb, Senior Lecturer at the School, comments: “A wide range of student work will be critiqued providing a great opportunity to see the review process in action, something which is normally done behind closed doors. The open discussion will also be an exciting event for those interested in the field.

“Over the past twenty years, public ‘crits’ have become unfashionable in architectural education as some feel that it is designed to flatter staff and undermine fragile students. Our ambition is to demonstrate that an open public debate is the ideal forum to help us understand the challenges of contemporary practice.”

The Crit will run from 9.30am – 4.30pm at the Scott Sutherland School, Garthdee, and members of the public are welcome to join the audience at any point during that time. After the Crit at 5pm the distinguished panel will give a 20 minute talk followed by an open discussion.

Scott Sutherland Lecture Series

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture Lecture Series 2011-12

image from SSSA

The 5710 Society at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture are pleased to announce an exciting year ahead with a diverse range of guest speakers, ranging from well-established international names to some exciting young practices. Our lectures are open to members and the public, and held every Thursday at 5pm in our Main Lecture Hall, with a members drink reception afterwards – always a good opportunity to meet the architects informally.

While we are in the final stages of organising this year’s series, we are pleased to announce the majority of our timetable. Highlights include Duggan Morris Architects, Reiulf Ramstad Architects from Oslo, Peter St John of Caruso St John, Clancy Moore and O’Donnell & Tuomey from Dublin along with many top Scottish practices such as Reiach & Hall and Rural Design.

Annual membership is £20, or £4 a week at the door, and is open to all students and anybody wishing to attend from other universities or from the wider public are more than welcome. Membership also entitles the holder to our after lecture Cheese, Beer and Wine event held in our Main Hall.

Please see the full timetable for more information:

Semester 1

Sep 29th – 5710 Opening Party Oct 6th – Tom Connolly of Elder and Cannon, Glasgow Oct 13th – Reiulf Ramstad of RRA Architects, Oslo Oct 20th – Mary Duggan and Joe Morris, Duggan Morris, London Oct 27th – Oliver Chapman, Edinburgh (1pm Lunchtime Lecture) Holmes Architects, Glasgow (5pm Lecture) Nov 10th – William Tunnel, Edinburgh Nov 24th – Malcolm Fraser, Edinburgh Dec 1st – Robin Webster of Cameron Webster, Glasgow Dec 8th – Peter McLaughlin of John McAslan Architects, Edinburgh

Semester 2

Feb 9th – RMJM, Glasgow Feb 16th – Jamie Fobert Architects, London Feb 23rd – Boyd Cody Architects, Dublin Mar 1st – Andrew Clancy of Clancy Moore, Dublin Mar 8th – Neil Sutherland Architects, Inverness Mar 15th – O’Donnell & Tuomey, Dublin Mar 22nd – Neil Gillespie of Reiach and Hall, Edinburgh Mar 29th – Dualchas, Skye April 12th – Peter St John of Caruso St John, London April 19th – David Henderson of Bennetts Associates, London April 26th – Rural Design, Skye

We hope to announce a number of other speakers soon, please check our newly revamped website at www.5710.org.uk for up to date information

Robert Gordon University – New Buildings

Started on site – Jul 2011

Design: BDP, architects

Combined Gray’s Art School / Scott Sutherland School of Architecture image from architect

Campus + 6 buildings incl. combined Scott Sutherland school of Architecture andGray’s School of Art

Robert Gordon University Garthdee Campus

Scott Sutherland Show

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture Show 2011

16 – 30 Jun

Drawing by Rowan Morrice ; Jenny Jarman: images from SSSA

There have been considerable changes at Scott Sutherland in the last few years, as the school opens up more to the rest of the UK. The Big Crit initiative has been a great success and involved some of the country’s most respected architects and writers in their end of year review.

The Master of Architecture course has architecture and urban design units run by Professors Gokay Deveci, Neil Gillespie and Alan Dunlop. The drawings above are by students from Professor Alan Dunlop’s unit. The students in this unit are not allowed to use computers to develop their ideas and present their work. They must sketch, draw by hand and make models, quite a radical idea for a school of architecture in the 21st Century but it has resulted in some beautiful work and drawings and worth seeing.

Drawing by Scott Sutherland students of masterplan in east end of Glasgow: image from SSSA

25 May 2011 Images from The Big Crit:

photos from SSSA

21 Mar 2011

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture Event

Big Crit event at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture in Aberdeen

19 May 2011

The Big Crit is an annual event organised by staff and students from the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment in Aberdeen. It is a day long public discussion about the work of architecture students within the school, with individual presentations and reviews of work from all years and Masters units.

The aim is to draw general lessons about architectural design from an analysis of students work and a review of the schools studio briefs, with a number of high profile architects and critics reflecting on the proposals. At the end of the reviews, the critics and public are invited to reflect and comment about individual schemes and talk about the work in the context of broader discussions about contemporary architecture and urbanism.

poster from SSSA

The Big Crit event is a fantastic opportunity to see the work undertaken by students over the last year and explore some of the design, construction and social issues that the school embarks upon. There will be a social event in the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment and adjacent grounds after the critiques have finished.

The Big Crit event this year will take place in the school on Thursday 19th of May. This years guest critics are Peter St John, of Caruso St John, Annalie Riches from RHMA, William Mann from Witherford Watson Mann Architects, Ellis Woodman from Building Design, along with Masters Studio tutors Neil Gillespie from Reiach and Hall, and Alan Dunlop of Alan Dunlop Architects.

Website: http://www.bigcrit.org/

Scott Sutherland School RGU : Glasgow Group Degree Show 2008 Images

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment

Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment 2007

14 Sep 2007

Appointment of Visiting Professor

The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen is delighted to announce the appointment of a new Visiting Professor.

Alan Dunlop, a partner of Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects in Glasgow, was educated at the Mackintosh School in Glasgow. He brings a wealth of professional experience developed through a portfolio of challenging and dynamic designs across the UK, which have consistently won a number of high profile accolades.

More recently, the work of the practice has expanded into Europe. Alan has taught in a number of schools of architecture in the UK, and has been published widely, including two practice monographs: ‘Challenging Contextualism’ and ‘Curious Rationalism’.

‘It is a critical time for architecture in Scotland’, says Alan Dunlop. “Architects require a full range of technical, communication and artistic skill in order to fully engage. I also believe it is important that practitioners influence the development of the coming generation”.

Alan’s primary role will be to lead and direct a group of final year architecture students in their exploration of contemporary urban issues, building on the experience of his practice, and his personal passion for the city.

Professor Gokay Deveci said ‘I am delighted. This is good news for our students. Alan Dunlop works at the leading edge of practice and will make his professional experience and design skills accessible to us all’.

Professor G Deveci RIBA ARIAS Scott Sutherland School, Garthdee Road, Aberdeen AB10 7QB

t +44 (0) 1224 263714 e [email protected]

Alan Dunlop, Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop Architects – 0141 331 2926

Location: Garthdee Road, Aberdeen, Scotland

17 Aug 2020 Architecture students design affordable housing for Grampian residents image courtesy of designers Robert Gordon University Aberdeen

Grays School of Art: photo © Adrian Welch

Robert Gordon University Aberdeen

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Severe Drought Threatens Hoover Dam Reservoir – and Water For US West

The wellspring of Lake Mead created by the dam’s blocking of the Colorado River has plummeted to an historic low as states in the west face hefty cuts in their water supplies

— By Oliver Milman at Hoover Dam | Tuesday, 13 July 2021 | Guardian USA

Had the formidable white arc of the Hoover dam never held back the Colorado River, the US west would probably have no Los Angeles or Las Vegas as we know them today. No sprawling food bowl of wheat, alfalfa and corn. No dreams of relocating to live in a tamed desert. The river, and dam, made the west; now the climate crisis threatens to break it.

The situation here is emblematic of a planet slowly, inexorably overheating. And the catastrophic consequences of the extreme weather this brings.

Lake Mead: largest US reservoir falls to historic low amid devastating drought

Hoover dam is the height of a 60-story building and is 45ft thick at the top and 660ft at the bottom. Its construction, in the teeth of the Great Depression, was a source of such national pride that thousands of people journeyed through the hostile desert to witness the arrival of what has become an enduring monument to collective effort for the public good.

The engineering might of Hoover dam undoubtably reshaped America’s story, harnessing a raucous river to help carve huge cities and vast fields of crops into unforgiving terrain. But the wellspring of Lake Mead, created by the dam’s blocking of the Colorado River and with the capacity to hold enough water to cover the entire state of Connecticut 10ft deep, has now plummeted to an historic low. The states of the west, primarily Arizona and Nevada, now face hefty cuts in their water supplies amid a two-decade drought fiercer than anything seen in a millennium.

“We bent nature to suit our own needs,” said Brad Udall, a climate and water expert at Colorado State University. “And now nature is going to bend us.”

Surveying the dam’s sloping face from its curved parapet, Michael Bernardo, river operations manager at the US Bureau of Reclamation, admits the scarcity of water is out of bounds with historical norms. While there is no “average” year on the Colorado River, Bernardo and his colleagues were always able to estimate its flow within a certain range.

But since 2000, scientists say the river’s flow has dwindled by 20% compared to the previous century’s average. This year is the second driest on record, with the flow into Lake Mead just a quarter of what would be considered normal.

1984 Boundary of Lake Mead as Compared to Its Current State

Guardian graphic | Source: Satellite data from NASA Earth Observatory showing 1984 lake boundary as compared to 2016 boundary.

“These are scenarios that aren’t necessarily where we expect to be in our models,” said Bernardo, whose work helps deliver a reliable level of water to thirsty western states. Nearly 40 million people, including dozens of tribes, depend on the river’s water. “We’re getting those years that are at the extreme ends of the bell curve. We’ve seen extremes we haven’t seen before, we now have scenarios that are very, very dry.”

In June, the level of Lake Mead plunged below 1,075ft, a point that will trigger, for the first time, federally mandated cuts in water allocations next year. The Bureau of Reclamation (the government agency originally tasked with “reclaiming” this arid place for a new utopia of farmland and a booming western population), expects this historic low to spiral further, dropping to about 1,048ft by the end of 2022, a shallowness unprecedented since Lake Mead started filling up in the 1930s following Hoover dam’s completion. This will provoke a second, harsher, round of cuts.

“We’ve known this point will arrive because we’ve continued to use more water than the river provides for years,” said Kathryn Sorensen, a water policy expert at Arizona State University. “Things look pretty grim. Humans have always been good at moving water around but right now everyone will need to do what it takes to prevent the system from crashing.”

Seven states – California, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Nevada – and Mexico are bound by agreements that parcel out the river’s water but those considered “junior” partners in this arrangement will be hit first.

Should second tier cuts occur, Arizona will lose nearly a fifth of the water it gets from the Colorado River. Nevada’s first-round cut of 21,000 acre-ft (an acre-ft is an acre of water, one foot deep) is smaller, but its share is already diminutive due to an archaic allotment drawn up a century ago when the state was sparsely populated.

The latest era of cooperation between states that rely upon the Colorado River has now entered the “realm of lose-lose”, according to Colby Pellegrino, deputy general manager of resources for the Southern Nevada Water Authority. “Everyone’s going to have to do more with less, and that’s really going to be challenging for people,” she said. “‘Drought’ suggests to a lot of people something temporary we have to respond to, but this could permanently be the type of flows we see.”

The decline of Lake Mead is apparent even at a cursory glance. The US’s largest reservoir is now barely a third full, the dark basalt rock of its canyon walls blanched by a distinctive white calcium ring where the water level once was. This level has plunged by about 130ft in the past 20 years and is currently receding by about a foot a week as farms hit their peak irrigation period.

Guardian graphic | Source: Elevation data from Bureau of Reclamation Records for Lower Colorado River Operations.

The pace of change has been jarring to the millions of people who regularly boat, fish and swim on the lake, with the National Park Service recently laying down new steel platforms to extend launch ramps that no longer reach the water. Some marinas have been wrenched from their moorings and moved because they have been left marooned in baking sediment.

Seen from above in time lapse over the years, Lake Mead looks like a spindly puddle withering away in the Mojave Desert, as nearby Las Vegas, which gets almost all of its water from the lake and went a record 240 days last year without rain, balloons in size. The west’s ambitions have crunched into the searing reality of the Anthropocene.

The Colorado River rises in the lofty Rocky Mountains, before tumbling through 1,450 miles of mountains, canyons and deserts until it reaches the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. Seasonally melting snow has traditionally replenished the river but snowpack on mountaintops in the west has declined by an average of 19% since the 1950s, while soaring temperatures have dried out soils and caused more water to evaporate.

This morphing climate, plus the rampant extraction of water for everything from golf courses in Phoenix to vegetables growing in California to gardens in Denver, means the Colorado fizzles out in dry riverbed before it even reaches its Mexican delta.

Only 1.8% of the west is not in some level of drought, with California, Arizona and New Mexico all experiencing their lowest rainfalls on record over the previous 12 months. Lakes in Arizona are now so low they can’t be used to fight the fires themselves spurred by drought, while the retreat of Lake Folsom in California uncovered the wreckage of a plane that crashed 56 years ago. The governor of Utah has resorted to asking people to pray for rain.

The white ‘bathtub ring’ around Lake Mead shows the record low water levels as drought continues to worsen in Nevada. Photograph: David McNew/Getty Images

The heat has been otherworldly, with Phoenix recently enduring a record six straight days above 115F (46.1C). A “heat dome” that settled over the usually mild Pacific north-west pushed temperatures to reach a record 108F (42.2C) in Seattle and caused power lines to melt and roads to buckle in Portland. A few hundred miles north, a fast-moving wildfire incinerated the town of Lytton in British Columbia the day after it set a Canadian temperature record of 121F (49.4C). Barely into summer, hundreds of people have already died from the heat along the west coast.

The west has gone through periods like this “megadrought” , with only occasional respite, for the past two decades. But scientists have made clear the current conditions would be virtually impossible without human-caused climate change, pointing to a longer-term “aridification” of the region. All of the water conservation efforts that have kept shortages at bay until now risk being surpassed by the rising heat.

“The amount of water now available across the US west is well below that of any time in modern civilization,” said Park Williams, a hydroclimatologist at Columbia University. Research by Williams and colleagues last year analyzed tree rings to discover the current dry period is rivaled only by a spell in the late 1500s in a history of drought that reaches back to around 800, with the climate crisis doubling the severity of the modern-day drought.

“As the globe warms up, the west will dry out,” said Williams. “The past two years have been shocking to me, I never thought I would see downtown LA reach 111F as it’s so close to the ocean, but we have some of the driest conditions in 1,200 years so the dice are loaded for more heatwaves and fires. This could be the tip of the iceberg, we may well see much longer, tougher droughts.”

In the guts of the Hoover dam, down bronze-clad elevators and through terrazzo corridors, a line of enormous turbines help funnel water out downstream, creating hydro-power electricity for more than 1m households in the process. Five of the 17 turbines, each weighing the same as seven blue whales, have been replaced in recent years with new fittings more suited to operating in lower lake levels.

Even with these adaptions, however, the decline of Lake Mead has caused the amount of hydro power generated by the dam to drop by around 25%. The drought is expected to cause the hydro facility at Lake Oroville, California, to completely shut down, prompting a warning from the United States Energy Association that a “megadrought-induced electricity shortage could be catastrophic, affecting everything from food production to industrial manufacturing”. The association added that such a scenario could even force people to move east, in what it called a “reverse Dust Bowl exodus”.

Bernardo said a similar shutdown of the Hoover dam would require more than 100ft in further water level retreat, which is not anticipated, although he finds himself constantly hoping for the rains that would ease the tightening shortages.

“We all want the nice weather but we need those good storms to build everything back up,” he said.

“We’d need three or four above average years, back to back, to restore the lake. Your guess is as good as mine whether we’ll get that. I’ll continue to watch the weather, every day.”

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The Challenge of Building in a Town That Treasures Its Past

It takes a village to preserve a village — especially one like Telluride, Colo., where Butch Cassidy robbed his first bank in 1889 and where the streets, at 8,750 feet elevation, are still dotted with storybook Gold Rush cabins.

“These were little mining towns that when they were built, probably weren’t meant to last,” said Jonna Wensel, the historic preservation director for Telluride, one of Colorado’s 19th-century whistle-stops. “They knew miners were coming in and would make their fortune — or not — and then leave. Very few of the structures were built with longevity in mind.”

And yet in Telluride many of these dwellings, made of local pine and spruce between 1880 and 1910 and often set on the dirt, without foundations, still stand.

It was this storied atmosphere that drew the Houston-based designer Linda Eyles of Linda Eyles Design and her husband, Simon Eyles, an oil trader, to purchase a getaway house here.

“When we wanted, as so many Texans do, a place to get away from the heat, we decided to take a couple of weeks and drive through all the Colorado towns,” Ms. Eyles said. Telluride (population 2,426) charmed them instantly because, unlike Vail, which was incorporated in 1966, it’s “not just a ski town.”

“You feel the sense of history,” she said.

The couple built a 3,000-square-foot house in 2005. Finding it too cramped for their many visitors, they purchased an adjacent plot that came with a special advantage: Building plans had already been approved by the town’s Historic and Architectural Review Commission, which can be a complicated process.

But building in a community that values its architectural heritage poses challenges beyond the approval process. It is also about designing a home that blends in with the older structures on the outside, while meeting the needs of the owner for something contemporary and comfortable on the inside.

That was the hurdle for Ms. Eyles.

“The architectural board is filled with a variety of people: architects, designers, just local bigwigs, and they were all sitting there,” Ms. Eyles said of a meeting she attended. “Somebody was trying to get this covering for their hot tub approved and this committee spent — I’m not kidding — 45 minutes or an hour having a discussion about what to call this structure. Was it a pergola? A pagoda?” Typically, the total approval process takes a minimum of nine to 12 months, said Ms. Eyles’s contractor, Dave Gerber of Gerber Construction, though Ms. Wensel said getting the go-ahead from the architectural board takes just two months.

Ms. Wensel said that Telluride was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1961 by Stewart Udall, who was then the secretary of the interior, and that the review board, which addresses only exteriors, prefers steeply pitched roofs (generally gabled), front porches, dormers and bays that suggest the folksy forms of the Victorian vernacular.

“We look for a traditional palette of materials as well; we didn’t get the railroad here until the 1890s, so it was difficult for stuff to be shipped in,” Ms. Wensel said. “That’s why we don’t have a lot of brick from that time.”

But they are not interested in fabricating a Disneyfied hamlet or recreating an ersatz Gold Rush era.

“We would like to see new interpretations of those traditional building types and styles, but not replications,” Ms. Wensel said. “In the ’80s and ’90s Telluride was heading down that road of saying ‘everything needs to be Victorian,’ so we have pockets of neo-Victorian architecture, which we see now just looks fake. So what we started to do is create something that blends with the existing architecture in form and mass and scale.”

Among their more unexpected recent approvals: a home with an elevator for parking a single car in a below-ground vault (parking is limited in town) and a rooftop Airstream trailer cabana that wouldn’t be visible from the street.

One thing they won’t restrict is paint color. “They can’t legislate it,” said the Eyleses’ architect, Peter Sante of Sante Architects. “You can only imagine what some municipality or one person’s interpretation of what beautiful is in a color combination, right? ‘Which fuchsia meets our standards?’ That’s a step too far.”

The Eyleses completely redesigned what the original plans envisioned for the interiors in their new home, which was completed in 2018, but made only modest changes in the board-approved exterior architectural plans (once plans are approved, a review committee can authorize small changes).

For example, they swapped French doors in the kitchen for a fully retractable folding sliding door that opens to the deck (a bug screen pulls out when needed).

One trick that can work with a historic architectural review board: “Our previous architect did this amazing book in which she went around and basically reviewed all of the windows, doors and roofline details in the area so she could come back and say, ‘This is why we use this thing,’” Ms. Eyles said. “So the board couldn’t say no to her.”

They also reduced the amount of glazing, or window surfaces. “One major concern is light spill — it makes a lot of sense that at night you want to see beautiful stars and not everyone’s windows,” Ms. Eyles said.

Also, Mr. Gerber said: “Historic structures didn’t have lots of glass, because it was cold and glass was expensive. If there’s too much glass, it doesn’t look appropriate.” Mr. Gerber said people pushing the envelope with the review board often try for more or larger windows and more modern, flatter rooflines; the traditional roof is at a 45-degree angle to shed heavy snow.

When it came time to design the interiors, Ms. Eyles went, much as a workaday 19th-century miner might have, for hard-wearing surfaces.

“We were looking for a ‘soft modern’ that really focused on comfort and ease of use,” she said, so “if we’ve got a house full of people, we don’t have to scream about something because it got left on a countertop or you can’t sit in a chair because it’s too fancy.”

But Ms. Eyles rejected anything that seemed too much in a Colorado or mountain-chalet theme. “There are no antler chandeliers!” she said. There is, however, a Roll & Hill modern antler light made of white resin sitting on a countertop. “We have that in a guest bedroom as our only tongue-in-cheek reference to the Colorado style,” she said.

Ms. Eyles selected the color palette to avoid competing with the views, which in some rooms are postcard-worthy overlooks of Little Wasatch Mountain and their street below, where black bears occasionally saunter.

“These are just soft grays and blues, sky colors. Mountain colors. The deep blue-green that you get in the underbrush,” she said. Durable finishes such as concrete floors, hair-on-hide rugs and indoor/outdoor fabrics would stand up to ski season’s slosh (Telluride is home to the highest concentration of 13,000- and 14,000-foot peaks in the continental United States).

Ms. Eyles also improved efficiency by installing a cubby-lined mudroom where guests could stash ski helmets and other outdoor gear. One guest bedroom is edged with four twin bunk beds, which have accommodated adults as well as children.

The couple’s lone devil-may-care decision is the veined white marble slabs for the kitchen countertop, which are easily stained and scratched. Ms. Eyles had gotten used to the surface in her Houston home.

“The first few times it happens, it’s very upsetting — your beautiful new material, and now you can see a circle from where somebody’s glass of lemonade was — but the truth is, marble’s like a leather saddle. It can become more beautiful over time,” she said.

Ms. Eyles did install a more indestructible black granite counter on her island, which she says doesn’t damage. “It doesn’t scratch, it doesn’t stain — the worst thing you get on that is a fingerprint.”

Outside, they were careful to leave room for a 500-square-foot patch of grass for their two dogs, Tasha and Sherman. “We do a lot more indoor/outdoor living these days, and for reasons you can appreciate that’s very desirable, but historically when you look at our town, porches didn’t tend to be bigger than 30 or 40 square feet,” Mr. Sante said. “They were a stoop. So decks and outdoor living areas are scrutinized and chiseled away at and reduced.” One way homeowners get plans passed is putting outdoor living areas behind the house.

The couple originally considered installing an elevator, which would be helpful for carrying in skis, but they couldn’t make it fit. Instead, they chose an open staircase that winds from the first to the third floor in glass, metal and white oak.

As her real estate agent advised her, “If you are in Telluride and you can’t walk up stairs, you don’t need to be there,” Ms. Eyles said.

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