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Creating a Sustainable, Equitable Society

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Why do we need to rethink our

environments?

People need places in which to live, work

and play; they need places to learn, worship,

meet, govern, shop and eat. These places

may be private or public, indoors or

outdoors, rooms, buildings or complexes.

Together, they make up neighborhoods,

towns, suburbs and cities. Architecture and

environmental design professionals are

trained in both the art and the science of

creating such spaces: They take these basic

and universal needs and create innovative

designs and then transform them into reality.

The “built environment” is a social

mechanism that stimulates the sensory

system, affecting the intellect and the desire

to create using spatial languages and

computer technologies.

In addition to the current budget crisis,

current needs demand that educational

facilities use the most efficient systems for

energy, water and land. It is important to

understand that ensuring that buildings,

campuses, and cities save energy, use

recycled materials, purchase renewable

products, and harvest rainwater is only one

step toward a sustainable living

environment. STAR Community Index™ (a

pioneering strategic planning and

performance management corporation) has

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By: Professor Marcela Oliva at Los Angeles Trade Tech,

Submitted by: Andrew Williams, jr. of Wilcomnet LLC

GBI Collaborative Partners

Special Issue

January 2014

Professor Oliva in her classroom at

LATTC on the News

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pointed out that sustainable solutions must

address interconnected economic,

environmental and social concerns. Current

solutions do not focus on multiple variables,

do not transform, do not self-organize, and

do not sustain.

Today’s mechanical reductive approach to

life inhibits the growth and well-being of our

nation. Current sustainability and

environmental movements have tendencies

that are specialized, and as a result social

equity is frequently ignored or not

understood. A sustainable society would

empower all members to create and invent

through education, move through

transportation, be protected through shelter,

live healthy lives through access to medical

resources and life standards, transform

space through architecture, and become

civilized through policy and legal systems.

A socially equitable sustainable system

would allow present and future humans to

lead healthy lives, have their basic needs

met with fair and equitable access to the

Earth’s resources while preserving the

biologically diverse ecosystems on which all

depend. This is a system based on

abundance and creation instead of scarcity

and consumption.

There is an urgency to implement a new

type of holistic environment, one that self-

organizes through a loop and acts as a unit.

It is time for our nation to develop such a

system for managing the built environment,

providing agile educational solutions for all,

using our natural resources efficiently, using

business enterprise solutions, and

considering all these variables at the same

time.

What is blocking this

transformation?

Some of the practices that inhibit an

integrated approach are a failure to tap local

talent due to false filters; a failure to use

geospatial information when spatial

decisions are made; solutions that use only

one sphere of knowledge; not acting as a

network; and not understanding the power of

space and design.

Sphere of knowledge

For the last 100 years, knowledge has been

kept hermetically sealed within one sphere.

The solution requires that all of these

spheres become interdependent. The

solution requires an integrated approach,

but due to the mechanical age mentality,

society has become accustomed to

segmented and reductionist thinking, leading

to isolated and short term solutions with

endless unrelated boundaries.

It is easy to conclude that a new

comprehensive solution using all the

spheres of knowledge is required. It is in the

relationship among all the spheres of

knowledge where the balance can be found.

These spheres include natural systems, the

built environment, economic forces, social

drivers, and innovative education.

To contribute to humankind’s true wellbeing,

integration and interdependence among

various spheres of knowledge regarding

space are necessary. This is the natural

evolution for education— an integrated

approach via physical and immersive

environments that connects local talent to

national resources to solve local needs and

compete globally.

The power of design

The Los Angeles Trade-Technical College

(LATTC) Architecture Program provides

innovative templates to create spaces,

objects, and solutions for local needs—with

cutting-edge innovation in particular demand

in the Los Angeles area—as well as the

global market. We recognize the untapped

talent of visual thinkers in our communities

and we provide them with a nurturing



environment, in which learning can happen

in the context of doing. We believe our

neighborhoods can be empowered to

document, design, build and maintain their

own places.

The LATTC Architecture Program has

demonstrated that through a system of

participation, holistic understanding, and

nature pattern templates, students can

generate unprecedented design solutions

accessible to all. Current efforts

demonstrate the importance of design for

future generations.

The LATTC CyberONE geospatial studio is

a distributed data and information

technology asset under distributed

ownership and management of the U.S.

National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI),

which is a foundation for next-generation

industries and technologies. The NSDI 2.0 is

based on two established public information

networks—the NSDI and the National

Environmental Information Exchange

Network (NEIEN). The existing NSDI is an

information network solely intended to share

geospatial information. As defined by the

Federal Geographic Data Committee

(FGDC), the United States NSDI includes

the technology, policies, criteria, standards

and people to promote geospatial

information sharing throughout all levels of

government and the private and non-profit

sectors.

The Information Technology & Innovation

Foundation (ITIF) indicates that for every $1

billion in funds spent on such infrastructure;

more than 30,000 jobs are created. ITIF

studies also indicate that investments in

infrastructure at an early stage of

development, such as a national spatial data

infrastructure, will create even more jobs

because new jobs are generated by

upstream investments in industries

responsible for new and innovative

applications and services that take

advantage of the more robust IT network.

CyberONE is aware of the importance of the

built environment and its place in society. A

revolution in architecture and environmental

design has taken place. New tools—GIS,

CAD, Rapid Prototype, BIM, and 3-D

Modeling—have facilitated an

unprecedented analytical and

comprehensive means of looking at human-

made ecosystems. With these new lenses,

we are able to see patterns and

relationships that we could not see before.

These new tools hold the promise of helping

us live sustainably in our communities and

globally. While some of these tools have

been used successfully in design and

construction for many years, they now

support a broad range of additional

applications, such as First Response,

National Intelligence, Operations Planning,

Emergency Management, and the

Americans with Disabilities Act, safety,

space utilization, and neighborhood

planning.

CyberONE is a catalyst for current

educational environments and

transformations for our neighborhoods. It is

a new place for learning, innovating and

manufacturing to meet local needs.

CyberONE trains the local talent and

virtually connects them to NASA scientists,

experts throughout the nation, and experts

from around the world. CyberONE solutions

are individualized, customized and formed

by local needs. Using the CyberONE

integrated curriculum, innovative spaces for

learning, nature templates and universal

principles, the community can design and

digitally fabricate urgently needed

storefronts, greenhouses, energy strategies,

eco-centers, recyclable objects, fences, food

gardens, pocket parks, mobile health clinics,

business incubators, food gardens, mobile

health clinics and other spaces.



About the Author

Marcela Oliva is a professor of architecture

and Environmental Design and has been

teaching at the Los Angeles Trade-

Technical College for more than 8 years.

She serves as a team member of the NASA

Knowledge Architecture team. Additionally,

she has partnered with the LAUSD High

School Interesting Students Exploring

Excellence (iSEE) program. Their efforts

have facilitated the first and largest high

school initiative, offering transfer courses in

the architecture and engineering field to

accredited programs. Professor Oliva’s

students are currently modeling building

envelopes as a living organism, exploring

“green design retrofit” for cargo containers,

and visualizing urban design strategies in

real time using: smart mapping, smart tools,

nature’s patterns/structures, biomechanics

for space making, and multiple layers of

information, energy simulations, eco-

economic strategies, rapid prototypes,

cognitive strategies and recording of human

potential.

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