![]() ![]() I grew up in Japan and Hong Kong and then came to the States. Who or what have been your biggest influences? We will be exporting to the grid and then borrowing it back from the grid. There are a lot of strategies that'll be starting to show up. What are you going to do when the sun's down to power this building? ![]() In Pictures: A Sustainability Visionary's Latest Works We expect that the building will be a net energy exporter. The parking lots will have solar collectors over them, like they have at Google. It'll probably be the most monitored building in the United States. Basically the windows open and close, depending on when and where you need temperature and oxygen, stuff like that. Where did that come from?" you think, "Well, below my feet is the coolness of the earth, 55 degrees. "Where's the energy come from?" Well, it comes from the sun. one of our clients-didn't benchmark the Encyclopedia Britannica. ![]() ![]() You can't really benchmark innovation because you don't leave the box. We said, "Where is the energy going to come from?" instead of just saying "We'll plug it in and try to be less bad by reducing our energy consumption." That would be benchmarking. McDonough: The next project from the architecture side is NASA's new Sustainability Base at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field. ![]()
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