Article Review/Synopsis.

The Machine as the Garden
The New Harvard Campus in Allston, Sustainability, and its Effects on Design
By Nahalie Beauvais

This article is about the development of the campus that goes across the Charles Rives in Allston and about the efforts of reducing the pollution and excess of resources that this type of building requires. The main goal of this development, is integrating the sustainable aspects in the design and not just as “add-ons”, the idea is creating some sort of sophisticated engineering and technologically project, that decreases the need and use of natural resources, so there’s no such a big impact on the environment.

It’s obvious that a science building needs a lot of resources and even if you apply all the technology that exists now a days, it would never get to be self sufficient in terms of resources though the idea is taking it to the minimum as possible.

What I found interesting about the article, is the measures they’re taking to approach and accomplish their objective of creating this thing as a whole, and not just as different pieces. I believe that in the future the building will become a sustainable machine with millions of different functions to decrease the damage on the environment and decrease the impact.

Also, it’s very important to mention, that this sort of projects are developed not just by architects. The development of this types of projects, has become a multi professional activity, which I believe can accomplish a much more accurate result since it’s covered by several points of views.