CASE STUDIES

Smart, sustainable, or both?

We discussed the Edge in the lecture notes, and it was also featured in the TED x talk with Coen van Oostrom. Choose another building or project from the list of case studies provided. Discuss the building/project in terms of what makes it smart and sustainable. In what ways could it be improved? Is the building more smart than sustainable or vice versa?

Sandbag housing in South Africa (https://www.pri.org/stories/2008-12-04/sandbag-housing-south-africa)

RBC WaterPark Place III, Toronto (Oxford Properties Group. (2014, November 24). Welcome to RBC WaterPark Place [Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxGd2Es2g6A

Eastgate Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe (http://www.mickpearce.com/Eastgate.html)