High Performance Design

Average design addresses the here and now, with solutions entrenched in current performance needs, predictability and meeting basic code requirements, while design excellence asks the question, what if? Whether it’s maximising versatility, ensuring longevity, embracing a unique perspective or utilising a never before seen approach, the world of high performing architecture is a treasure trove just waiting to be discovered. For a conversation rooted in experiences from across the globe, featuring experts who have made it their life’s work to ask “what if?” join us on December 3rd for our final Teulo Talks event of the year: High Performance Design.

Ari Bose

IBI Group

BIO:

Ari leads our design practice on the East Coast of the US.  He is an award-winning architect and sustainable design specialist experienced in leading major project teams across both the construction and consultancy environments. His experience encompasses significant concept design experience with major multi-billion dollar projects across a variety of sectors, and brings together big-picture thinking with broad technical experience managing an interdisciplinary team (including construction and FM team members). His current projects include a 2.2 million sq. ft. Research and Engineering Campus for a Fortune 50 company, a 130-acre Master Plan for a park in the Middle East, major Biotech projects on the Eastern Seaboard and various international design competitions. He focuses on strategic delivery of major projects and large Design-Build/PPP building projects. His particular strength is in understanding client needs and developing practical, engaging design and delivery solutions, which makes him a great asset to our clients and construction partners alike. He has excellent analytical, organizational, and leadership skills with demonstrated experience in achieving aggressive and competing goals. Ari has a Master’s degree in Architecture from University of Arizona, with a specialization in Design and Energy Conservation.

Talk topic: Projects from IBI Group, Boca Raton Center 

Design principles for the new Boca Raton Center for the Arts and Innovation are focused on versatility of the spaces, community engagement and technology. The new complex will encompass six diverse spaces that range in seating capacity from 99 to 3,500, with a capacity of 6,000 when all spaces are used simultaneously. A central design aspect of the project was integrating the existing Mizner Park amphitheater into the new complex.

The current Mizner Park amphitheater will be transformed into a 3,500-seat, open-air, bowl-style setting, and will be equipped with a cantilevered “curtain” that can be raised and lowered to transform the stage into a smaller black box theater. A new concert and performance hall will be added, as well as a multi-use roof-top terrace, 99-seat jewel box performance hall, and an open-air lobby placed above ground level. Many areas within the facility will be available for community use, including outdoor public gathering spaces.

The project will add a permanent, floating, overhead canopy that will protect audiences from the elements. Enhanced with kinetic, moving elements to guide wind, it will shield audiences from the elements and create a breezy, cooling effect, facilitating usage for many more days each year. The underside of the canopy is also designed as a night-time projection surface. Video projectors, LED screens, and other broadcast equipment will be used throughout the facility, and will be simultaneously viewable in all spaces, as well as from the exterior for outdoor audiences.

“We have envisioned a project that leverages technology and shape-shifting architecture to create the performance spaces of the future. This will allow the performing facilities to expand and contract, and leverage indoor and outdoor venues to create countless numbers of programming and viewing experiences,” said Ari Bose, IBI Group’s Principal-In-Charge and Design Lead for the project.

Gabriela Carrillo

Gabriela Carrillo Architects 

BIO:

Gabriela Carrillo (Mexico City,1978) She began professional practice in 1997 in "Vinculación y Proyectos  Especiales" at UNAM. In 2001 she started collaborating with Mauricio Rocha, partnering with him in 2011 to  form TallerRochaCarrillo. Since 2017 she has alternated her practice with her own Taller Gabriela Carrillo, where  develops public and private projects as well as museography and ephemeral interventionsand, that same year  she developed an academic and research project Estudio RX with Loreta Castro at the Faculty of Architecture  UNAM, where she currently academic practice. In 2019, she started a collective called C733, collaboration that  works in public projects. She has been an academic for more than 15 years at the UNAM, as well as others such  as Harvard GSD, WAVE program at the University of Venice an the University of New Mexico, among other.  Since 2019, she is a member of the National System of Art Creators of FONCA. She has received multiple  recognitions of national and international, such as the Emerging Voices Award in 2014, Federico Mariscal Chair in the Faculty of Architecture UNAM, the "Médaille d'Or Palmarés 2019" the highest recognition from the  Academy of Architecture of France and the “Women Architect of the Year 2017” award granted by The  Architectural Review. In 2020 she was a finalist in the Emerging Awards by The Architectural Review for her  carrier path and awarded as "Architect of the Year" by Architectural Digest Mexico.

Talk topic:

Gabriela Carrillo will take us through various projects that she has been part of and the influence on her work by living in Mexico. Architect Gabriela Carillo of TallerGabrielaCarrilo and Colectivo c733 brings deep introspection and the spirit, politics and culture of Mexico and Mexico City to her work. She will talk about how she continues to think deeply about design and how architecture can play a role in the future of Mexico and Mexico City.  “Architecture is an echo of our society.  And if echoes happen in different directions, powerful things can happen.  The key is to never forget where we come from, but still always question everything we are.”