HOW TO HANDLE FUTURE CHALLENGES? Stockholm 2014-04-03

HOW TO HANDLE FUTURE CHALLENGES?
Stockholm 2014-04-03
White is the 3rd largest architectural company in Europe
715 employees
Employee owned with 440 shareowners
115 are partners
Turnover 97M € / 127M $
Part of revenue goes back into Research and knowledge
production through:
- Study trips on architecture
since 1952
- An open foundation – ARQ
since 1970-ies
Yearly White budgets for:
- White knowledge networking
since 1980-ies
- Education/knowledge sharing
since 1980-ies
- White Research Lab
since 2012
Innovation is at the core of our practice and culture
and we invest heavily in research, development and
training. We have built up our research capabilities
over six decades to support our projects with latest
developments, needs and opportunities, trends and
behaviours. A network operates throughout the
practice to share experiences and lessons learned.
SUSTAINABLE URBAN PLANNING
COMPLEX BUILDINGS AND PROGRAMS
TECHNOLOGY & DESIGN
Societal development needs a knowledge
production based on a holistic approach.
Multidisciplinary knowledge has the potential to
address the global challenges that the world face.
Through the architect practice White has for many
years developed a multidisciplinary approach
based in iterative processes where different skills
meet to tackle complex quests, discover and
explore important new issues and drive
sustainability forward.
Environmental disciplines merged into Whites
practice in the 90-ies and Social anthropology
disciplines 2009.
Architecture
Interior Design
Building Antiquarians
Engineers
Lightning Designers
Residential Architects
Project Management
Product Designers
Landscape Design
Masterplanning
Sustainability Experts; chemists, biologists, ,
energy engineers, social anthropologists…
DeSearch, digital design strategists
DIFFERENT WAYS TO RESEARCH
In-depth studies
Collaborative studies
Evaluations
International research collaborations
Appling Research Findings in practice
Doctoral thesis
USING
Theme study trips
Competitions
Traditional projects
Product development
Project development – pilots
Stakeholder seminars/workshops
AS LABS FOR KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Cape Town - post apartheid, post world cup- urban design, architecture & football
Nairobi – the power of urbanization and cultural challenges
STUDY TRIPS - CHALLENGES
New Orleans – rebuilding New Orleans, 5 years after Katrina
Mumbai – growing middle class and informal urban structures, etc.
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>> White Pro bono work in Nairobi together with GoDown
>> SIDA work with structural plan feeding into the coming Masterplan
>> Side Event at World Urban Forum nr. 7 in Columbia
COMPETITIONS – A LAB
TALKING TO THE KIRUNAINHABITANTS
USING RESEARCH RESULTS IN PRACTISE
USING RESEARCH RESULTS IN PRACTISE
WHITE RESEARCH LAB
IN TRADITIONAL PROJECTS
SIMPEL APPLICATION PROCESS WITHIN WHITE
>> over 50 R&D projects started
KATSAN – A TEST LAB
Testing prototypes: here a facade element
growing in different directions; east, west,
north and south.
A White Research Lab together with NCC.
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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Protected Strip
Product characteristics: flexibility and constraints
Design: White arkitekter AB
Width: 143 mm, 122 mm, 70 mm.
Length: 600–7,000 mm
Solar absorption: 96% ±2%
Thermal emission: 7% ±2%
Surface coating method: magnetron sputtering in a vacuum,
single or double-sided.
AS DEVELOPERS
First competition set up for energy consultants
>>
in Sweden, influenced the developers and real
estate owners to ask for integrated design
teams
2000-2002 STOCKHOLM OFFICE, SID
Expertise; architecture, landscaping, project
management, environment, energy, interior design
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AS PILOTRESEARCH
>>
2000-2002 STOCKHOLM OFFICE, SID
Expertise; architecture, landscaping, project
management, environment, energy, interior design
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AS PILOTRESEARCH
2002-2005, LOW COST RENTAL
2009 – 2011 LOW RISE
2009-2012 OWNER OCCUPIED
HOUSING
INTEGRATION
Expertise; architecture, landscaping,
Expertise; architecture,
Expertise; architecture,
project management, lighting,
landscaping, project management,
landscaping, project management,
environment, energy, parametric
environment, energy, interior
lighting, environment, energy, BIM
design, BIM
design
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AS PILOTRESEARCH
KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT WITH
STAKEHOLDERS
For us, sustainability means taking responsibility.
Monica von Schmalensee, CEO White
Founder and Chair of the Swedish Green Building Council.
INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY (IEA)
Collaborative International Research for a fossil
free future, Swedish lead in Task 41 and 51 on
Solar Energy in Architecture and Urban Planning
with Lund University
Long term initiatives on competence of
research recruitments, adjunct positions and
professors as well as industrial PhDs within
our strategic themes for R&D.
Jonas Runberger, Head of Desearch at White and
adjunct Professor in digital design at KTH.
Research
become a strategic tool in architectural
practice
At White research
consciously used to produce new
needed knowledge also used to
develop the architecture and design
and to develop the firm itself
broad range of different research
approaches, methods and traditions
Work culture
based on knowledge networks and in
line with theories on innovation and
knowledge
integration of research and practice
triggers new solutions and approaches
to meet contemporary challenges
A call out – for a curiosity driven collaboration searching efficiant
solutions for:
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a fossilfree energy society
CO2 neutral materials and energy supply
integration of ecosystems
Within Cradle to cradle, benefitting a circular and more balanced
economy
elise.grosse@white.se
marja.lundgren@white.se
10 april 2014