Each year, the region’s best design firms and design schools team up with industry manufacturers and battle it out on the runway in front of a packed room at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for the annual IIDA New England Fashion Show.
The designs are developed based on a show theme and are created exclusively from the tools of their trade – interior finishes, furnishings, light fixtures and more.
With the theme of “Ritual”, we created the honeybee waggle dance, or #WaggleDance, earning “Best Interpretation of Theme” for the second year in a row!
Partnering with Knoll Inc. (Knoll, Knoll Textiles, Knoll Studio, Spinneybeck, Filzfelt, Datesweiser), Office Resources and Forbo Flooring, our entry was made of: upholstery fabric, laser cut wallcovering, wood veneer, laminate, linoleum, nylon (colored and virgin), paper from Knoll price list books and discarded architectural drawings, mesh back chair samples, felt, belting leather, structural furniture panel supports and screens, polycarbonate samples, drapery, 3D printed elements, paint, CNC routed wallcovering and, finally, wire.
Watch the #WaggleDance come to life!
Cape Cod Community College’s Frank and Maureen Wilkens Science and Engineering Center is a net-positive energy building designed to transform the heart of campus.
The project approaches sustainability through a holistic and global approach, implementing a range of moves including passive solar shading overhangs, air-source heat pumps, high performance materials with low embodied carbon and the expansion of the range of thermal comfort and lighting power density. Combined with on-site photovoltaics, the project achieves net-positive energy use.
The project’s thermally modified wood rainscreen façade is a study of the modern expression of vernacular Cape Cod architecture while reducing embodied carbon. Early lifecycle assessments identified the immense carbon savings of wood over fiber cement. The design team did not stop there, furthering reductions by peeling back unnecessary finishes like carpet and ceilings. Together, these decisions enabled a 19% reduction in embodied carbon.
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