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Conference looks
at architecture in
ecological terms
The HOPES environmental conference included
panels, workshops, speeches and design projects
BYMAITCHARAN
DAILY EMERALD FREELANCE REPORTER
As the unusual sun of winter cedes
to spring rain, students are finding
themselves stuck inside.
Oregon has received rain uncharac
teristically late this year as a result of
El Nino-like climatic conditions, result
ing from changing weather patterns re
lated to greenhouse gases, according to
the National Weather Service.
What students might not realize is
that climate-controlled, weatherproof
buildings — not cars or gas-fire power
plants — mainly produce these green
house gases.
These are the kinds of arresting facts
Ed Mazria and other speakers brought
to the 11th annual Holistic Opportuni
ties for Planet Earth Sustainability, or
HOPES, conference on eco-design arts,
held this weekend at the School of Ar
chitecture and Allied Arts.
Mazria, a New Mexico-based ar
chitect and former University profes
sor, gave the weekend’s first keynote
address Friday night. He emphasized
how architecture is the only silver
bullet in the battle against environ
mental degradation.
“Architecture needs to be designed
to engage the environment in a way
that dramatically reduces or eliminates
reliance on fossil fuels,” he said to a
rapt audience of students, professors
and professionals in a packed room in
Lawrence Hall.
The key, he said, is education. Stu
dios must be designed to educate stu
dents and faculty about sustainable de
sign, and with America attracting the
best international students, Mazria
said he hopes this information will re
turn with them and be disseminated.
“I think green architecture is the
challenge of the day,” University grad
uate Kevin Parkhurst said. Parkhurst
established the HOPES conference
with other students in 1994 as part of
his master’s in architecture project.
“What we established was a frame
work so each year they don’t have to
reinvent the wheel,” Parkhurst said.
“But they may have to put the spokes
back on or adjust the seat. ”
Though the conference has not
grown much in size over the years, it
has grown in scope. This year, a design
competition was added with an
award of $1,000 for the best sustain
able design.
Other events included panel discus
sions, workshops, featured speakers,
professional showcases where firms
presented projects, the Tfashy Fashion
Show where all the clothes were made
from salvaged materials, and a 24-hour
design charrette.
The charrette has been a part of
the conference for seven or eight
years, said Martha Bohm, head of the
Environmental Design Center, a stu
dent group that runs the conference
and other ecologically driven design
events. Each year, teams of students
and architects are given a site and 24
hours with which to create a design
for it.
This year, the charrette focused on a
local site, the heavily polluted Union
Pacific rail depot in West Eugene. Now
largely abandoned, it has been ren
dered a brownfield, or land that is un
usable without further investment.
Working with community members
who live in the area, the teams had to
create a program that reinvigorated
nearby residential areas while cleaning
up the pollution left by Union Pacific.
Community members approached
the Environmental Design Center
about the Union Pacific site in the early
stages of planning, and it inspired this
year’s conference theme of “reVISION,
reDESIGN, reSOLUTION,” said Lilah
Glick, an architecture graduate student
who organized the charrette.
Jack Elliott, whose Ecological Lit
eracy and Design class at Cornell Uni
versity is the first of its kind in the na
tion, took greatest issue with the
inaction of architects.
“A storm is brewing and we have to
do something about it,” he said during
his keynote address Saturday night.
“So much time is spent talking and not
enough spent doing.”
One architect doing proactive work
is Cameron Sinclair, who gave the final
keynote speech of the weekend. His
non-profit Architecture for Humanity
program works to house displaced
people in Kosovo, Sudan and Sri Lan
ka, and also to build communities.
“Is it possible to make a sustainable
environment for the next generation?”
he said. “This is something our profes
sion can tackle, and we must.”
A National Intercollegiate
Recycling Competition
WEEK 9 RESULTS
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Lbs. per
resident
Miami 59.78
Oregon 56.60
Bowling Green 52.66
OSU 51.51
Ohio 49.55
Mt. Holyoke 42.84
Kalamazoo College 42.61
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