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So for the time being we go back and compare our windy cities today and that is the city of Chicago Illinois and the city of Honolulu, Hawaii in which we are in and we're broadcasting from and put these things into perspective of culture informed by climate which we often in possible times where we can just bake the temperature that our human body actually naturally needs and we are very sensitive species. Maybe needless to tell you but just to remind you if you don't think of yourself like that because we are very warm blooded and so our blood temperature is 100 Fahrenheit close to around a heart of Fahrenheit and this is around 40 Celsius. But the ambient temperature to sustain that is actually mid 70 Fahrenheit and which is translate into mid 20s Celsius. So a couple of degrees off both to above it or below it actually picks us off and makes us sick which I you wouldn't have to care but I am right now I have a flu and that probably comes from again having gotten too cold. I just came from San Francisco Mark Twain who also visited us here has been in San Francisco and has said the coldest winter is the summer in San Francisco or the fall or any season because it's kind of damp cold. So when we're reporting about Chicago if you do the weather check right now it's actually very nice and sunny but it's below 32 and 32 is where liquid as blood is a liquid too. But again it doesn't even need to go down below 32 Fahrenheit which is zero Celsius is where liquid free. And so that is what will happen in Chicago is happening in Chicago right now because like nine below Celsius which is in the 20s. And next week actually when then precipitation happens then that wet stuff that comes out of the sky from the clouds actually turns white and it's snow that we never have. However right now we are in our first really rainy week that water by the way is the essence of nature. We all need it. We need to hydrate us when you got a cold like me. You got to refill all the time and plants need to do that and we had a really dry phase and now we really need that water but maybe a little bit more evened out. Now we get it all in one week. So we just want you to keep that in mind when we look through the slides here which are only one dimensional. They only show us an image and so that image does not become an illusion of maybe what you want to see or you're told you want to see but please activate all your senses as to fully immerse yourself in the comparisons we are making. Why are we taking us to Chicago through me about now more than a year ago in May of last year. We sent me there because we found out that the majority of our high rises are actually coming architectural authorship wise from the city of Chicago. So we thought it's worth going to Chicago and check why that is and what we can learn from it and what maybe we better don't learn from it. So this first slide here what you see this building here is by my dear buddy Dan Kubrick who I went to school with in the prairie in Nebraska in the early nineties. You see him at the bottom down there and so we then also had a great adventurous trip going to New York eventually stopping in Chicago which he always loved. I love too that was the first American city I ever saw and really fascinated me and continues to fascinate me. At that time we were driving my parents back to New York where they flew out back to Germany and we went on an all American road trip that my father was very generous and by the way it's his birthday today so happy birthday dad happy 83rd birthday and thank you for all your generosity that we were the beneficiaries from all my life and Dan on that trip too because he put us up in this nice hotel that you see at the middle at the top the small image there and was gracious to to you know host us there and houses there. So when Dan then came to take his dream job with the German born architect Helmut Jan years later after graduation in 2005 we when I came back to teach and to coach in my alma mater in Nebraska I took the students there to check out what Chicago has to offer and that's something I really missed here it's a huge effort to get us off the rock here to fly to another city even San Francisco it's a five six hour flight and it's quite expensive and at least in Chicago to Chicago from Lincoln you can hop into a car as we did we were reporting in our show quoted top right automobile architecture show into Jeff Chetwick's rusted out Honda Civic takes you about a little more than that time but you only have one tank of gas for a very efficient car so it's much more approachable and doable with the emerging generation so that being said when Dan then took the job with Helmut Jan there was this dream job in his dream city he was the project architect of this building here and he walked by that hotel every day and remembered the hospitality of my father and said that always got him into a good mood so thanks dad you had an impact on on this building here and why are we showing that it looks very similar to what we're known here right but again as we were just reminding ourselves the climatic circumstances are totally different so buildings actually should not look the same actually we have to say this building actually looks better than we get these days because the more recent high rises by Howard using Kakaako don't even have what we actually only should have here which is the Lanai which is the outdoor living space that covers us from the rain which we have right now and from the sun which we have usually but other than that there's no environmental circumstances that we got to help to shelter us from very much the opposite in Chicago Illinois so this building here has lot G.R.s lot G.R.s are sort of tucked in lanais they give you more protection from the sides which is necessary here and if you imagine the physics of architectural practice and the construction management which Dan is doing there with his hard hat and if you have to design under both extreme heat circumstances where things expand under extreme heat many if not to say most materials or in the winter they contract things get actually smaller we told you in another show about transportation which we actually get to next again that the tram station out of a steel bridge we did which is basically very long very several hundred feet you know gets bigger by a foot in the summer and accordingly shrinks in the winter time so having to design to that also on a lanai on on a on a logia that's where the snow will pile up and when the snow melts it becomes ice before it really becomes water again and we all know from our freezing compartment in our refrigerators where we put a bottle of whatever beverage in there we forget about it what happens at birth right and that we know that water when it freezes gets bigger so can you imagine you have you have frozen snow snow that became ice on a lanai you have to design everything in a way that is not cracking and leaking so it's a lot more hard is a lot harder to do this under a tempered climate which means for us we should take it more easy not the easy way out and just copycating what unfortunately is the case which is the point we try to make but actually you know build in taking advantage of our more privileged circumstances meaning we could build easier and we could build cheaper and that's the point of the article we see running there as a column on the top left which is from march of this year which is the emergency proclamation of our governor josh green right because we have a serious housing crisis everywhere in the world and not any different in chicago uh than than in honolulu and that needs to be tackled so you might say well this is seems like a more luxurious a more upscale high-rise and it certainly is but giving that it's already better and what Howard use and their architects column on court review that we get to later who which is the firm that we predominantly get her is doing currently towards the end in kakaako because they have to be done soon that's why they're popping it out rather frantically as we think as we will share with you soon so uh talking uh the need of housing for the underserved the underprivileged that gets us to the next slide so this is the um the notorious cabrini green location you might remember uh and if not do your homework this is where the city of chicago and the city in the 60s wanted to do something for the underserved and was bringing up the social housing project and program and they built these buildings which then uh as many say and which ultimately uh led to um it being demolished failed so um dance office Helmut uh Jan at that time um Murphy Jan was still called Murphy Jan I guess and then a transition to Jan um did this project which is in fact something we need to originally here which is for people who were formerly houseless and now have a shelter and that's the building that they did um in uh uh actually the year before the high rise and as always when you do something cabrini green right the architects signs and stun they did not intend to do something that failed they intended but their best intention they meant to do something that serves the people that helps the people but several circumstances social ones uh first and foremost economical ones um uh led to it then failing and so but they at least have tried right where we're criticizing we're not even really trying to an extent that we're doing so to criticize something that has tried is maybe even unfair so it is with this project here because this is article that I quote here at the top right where someone assesses it some years after and says well maybe not as green as it as it was aiming for again that might be true but again i'm absolutely saying they tried and what you see what i wanted to point out which i've never seen here i don't want to see which you see at the top of the building these are domestic size wind turbines and talking to windy cities we have constant air velocity winds and we know the whole discussion about the big traditional wind turbines out there in pristine landscapes and fundamentalist Hawaiians feeling it's an offense to their culture and to their gods and there's the whole depending on where you stand in that discussion here so this could be a great alternative bring wind energy generation into the urban fabric produce them very nice slim and and not uh eye-storing uh systems that you put on the roof and that was a prototypical uh attempt by the office um of my best buddy dan and i give them that that they that they tried and so next page trying um we are also notoriously short on next slide uh on the housing for the emerging so for students and so this is student housing that um dan designed together with helmet for the iit the uh Illinois Institute of Technology that we remember was led for a long time by German immigrant um miss van der Roa um who also is the father of the typology of that we get here a lot the steel skeleton or the skeleton at all um high-rise they're mainly here out of concrete of course but he um evolved it evolved it into steel so this is uh this is student housing looks pretty cool right and literally and figuratively speaking and you could now go into the nitty-gritty details and ecotech energy model it and see what's actually has energy consumption but again it's primarily and and gesturally for the very least doing the right thing and it's also doing something way better than the we'll see in a minute that we're doing here because there's actually public transportation the extension of the l that we will see which is the historic elevated train in downtown in the urban core of Chicago Illinois it runs by right by the building and it has um a train station next by that is not that's one at the bottom right that is not by yon that is and dan this is by um rim colas um if you know architecturally criticizing that or both i i leave it up to you guys i don't want to make that judgment we don't want to get that deep into it but we want to get that deep with for us back home so the next slide please because this is the this is the sibling condition of when our emerging generation our students go up to our campus um there is no public transportation except this totally outdated hermetic fossil bus sometimes they're hybrids there's some who are electric but again that that's not cutting it we're in the tropics right we want be exposed to the natural uh condition thermal condition whoever created it here has done it right and my we shared my sort of provocative evolution theory that whoever that was might it be have been he it or whoever you decide had serious attention deficit disorder and could only get it right here then losing it and having some minions having to pick up from pieces of not ideal circumstances of climates they're either too cold or too warm so really want to capitalize and this is the cynical or ironic picture we took because it shows the building as bunded and i get excited about scaffolding which could actually be a really simple system if you like code requires scaffoldings for every building not under construction only but actually for finished building you already would create lanais around the buildings that would shape the building you could put plants there you could put people there um unfortunately then this was only the last phase next slide before the building then turned into this here which is very uh unfortunate and i'm going to you know put myself into a conflict of interest because i'm also going to teach in the shidler business school that travel industry management department in the spring resort design and they are behind that building that they call the rise and we are very disappointed in the building because not only is it exclusive we said in the hall of manoa that we will see next the room is about 750 bucks a month here it's twice or more of that in the hall of manoa it's all easy breezy and beautiful here it's all hermetic so why would you do that when people again that person there knows how to do it all you need is an umbrella to give you the the the shelter from in that case the sun today the rain so next slide speaking of hall of manoa here it is but in a way we were not able to see it until now because there were buildings in front of it that just got torn down and now you see hall of manoa and you also see that burn school building that john hara build that show quote there in the middle that we were reporting about having them as guests on the show so just having returned from san francisco having met up with kurt cut sandburn our utmost architectural critic who we missed so much ever since he was sort of kicked out by civil beach shame on them i we dearly miss him and kurt was referring to fred bernstein a dear friend of his who is an architectural critic who recently says we architectural critics which we are the total you and i are too wanting or not but feel we have to since you've heard are not available for it anymore but heard you reminded us by quoting fred that architectural critics have to consider the carbon footprint uh the great energy um the embodied energy he calls it of a building because he cannot anymore look at the buildings as when i was educated where it was all the pretty look of it even my progressive professor alex mella asked me what's the form determining factor today we asked for emerging generations we have to as heard and fred confirm what is the performative um determining factor so hall of manoa um here again from the southern elevation and talking embodied energy they just wrecked this right so they just neglected what was there and all the carbon footprint that was there and that could have been reutilized in one way or another either keeping the building and repurposing the building into student housing if that is not possible which seems the case because there's a lot bigger program then at least how we shared as we did it with when we replaced the first uh which became designed by us the first um post fossil preschool building for mahantan and have on handover where we had to tear down the not to be saved previous building we took it apart like reuse hawaii um basically promoted here right you want to take it apart in pieces and then separate it and then keep these pieces and and put them into new buildings again that is all not happening here which is really quite ashamed so next slide which also um our projection is will be ashamed because in the choke quote at the middle on the right which is just from I think last or the week before where Martin Ancelini as a member of the studio the architectural studio was visiting the hall in minnowa and said it's so fresh although it's 60 years old it's as young as you can be the top right some many years ago by now on the show another group of students had been basically said well if it works so well why don't we just continue that genetic codes and build that student housing that our contact person to student housing at that time gave us that side and they just said well then now let's optimize it's hard to say you can even you know optimize an i.m. pay but we analyze that the southern fenestration if you would extrude it a little bit more it would actually perfectly shade the northern side anyways not so much the new building on the left column all the pictures on the left part of that page here is the projected new that building is running the other direction which you might say macro workflow or martin i heard you saying that's great because it's going with malta macai well that is that is okay but then comes the solar penetration and they don't even fake it right the computer rendering in the center there shows that must be either the east or the west orientation fenestration orientation in my i think it's the west side and shamelessly they show how that sun penetrates through that glass layer which seems pretty much big blazing so that sun the sun rays will basically turn into heat and will bake you in the building and you likely need air conditioning so once again why don't we open our eyes and learn from the modern masters especially when they are right next door they are our neighbors and this building when you do a little bit join us for detective work who's going to operate the building here it's the firm that's called gray star and i want to get you know silly or cynical about names but you know me english never be my native language i'm thinking hey isn't a gray star kind of an eye disease i mean speaking of you know where i'm going cynically don't they see right open your eyes because you have them so why are we that skeptical on top of already looking at these things here get us to the next slide because gray star brings back memories bad memories because they're also operating this building which was the first one of that kind really bad exclusive hermetic invasive there was mold in there that they're now arguing there wasn't come on i mean same with our contact person higher and pale who was with hi higher who was with student housing said that he his comment about the new housing was hopefully it's not going to be causing freer again and that's another cynical joke because there's freer hall down there that is also by the way if we can go back to the previous slide one more time michael here because they pride this development as p3 which means public private partnership as they spell it out there and that freer hall was of the same thing what that actually means is that i as a as a as an institution as a university in this case don't have the guts anymore to be climbed by myself i don't trust myself in that and so i cry for help and i turn to people unfortunately who have predominantly financial interest so it's it's all about capitalism it is not about culture so what you get for that is actually going back to the next slide is what you get here and that's something we certainly don't want to see and the remaining few minutes here i want to get your spirit back up what we should see and this is that next slide here with across from that horrible new building from the previous slide is the varsity building and i will correct or make myself more explicit than in that soul varsity vanity from way back please come here may i school who is also an underwriter of the show one of the main underwriters please please don't tear any of these buildings down especially not the mid-century modern marvels this is a pete winverly building the varsity building and it's done right if you watch that show so i take back when we said well if it would have to be torn down we would ask pete retrospectively up wherever he is because he's long dad if we could then build a primitiva one which is a tower that tries to implement similar strategies of people and planet friendliness but again don't keep the varsity and build maybe this next door because there's a big parking lot and then what you see on the left there is a lift is a ski lift without keys because there's no snow but the ski lift technology that will basically bring you the emerging generation in a decent way up the university hill you can stoop through the through the treetop height and you can make your homework last minute doesn't that sound great especially now being finals week and final it's probably going to be our final slide here next slide is that all too much to ask no it is not because this is from my research summer back in Dresden Germany where office is so here we have that stuff from a long time ago this is at the beginning of the last well the the century the last century in 1901 it did the suspended rail system that but a canister con and richard low both friends and collaborators and previous guests on many shows are so fond of they know of the one in the city of wuppertal but this one here is one in Dresden as well and they're kind of competing which which one was pretty much first and there's some really fascinating documentation that I took pictures of here because they also proposed this tropical version and of course it has a colonial taste which is the one that is maybe not so good but technology wise this is really cool so I grew up we see my grandmother here and I was I grew up with born with skis on as I like to stay so I've every year we visited my grandma here and we went up to see and we were in this sea lift and it's just it's just really great so that being said the picture at the bottom right I want to at the bottom yeah at the bottom right I want to close on because I find that fascinating and it provokes me because I've just been out west and I've been driving under the heavy rail and I see where that sort of section of that big trust curves back I see these cavity spaces that I would like to be taken by a system like that by this self-peddling you know a rail system that you can get your workout done you don't have to use you know a fit in 24-7 fitness you actually protect it by the rain so you kind of you know make something good out of something not so good because the heavy rail as we keep talking was maybe too much but that way you could improve it and better it again there's my parents down there at the bottom in the middle so happy birthday dad again and picking up from that one here and going back home because you might say well Martin this is where you're from and that's there and you are here no this technology and all this good stuff has made it to us as well pretty close so we will make our next stop will be LA and we will show you a similar system and then we go back to Honolulu where we should all have this again because we will have it because we had it before okay that being said have a good week till then and please stay easy breezy versus wacky windy bye bye