Elma Durmisevic
Mario Kordic
Nasiha Pozder
Thorsten Nölle
Ron Jacobs
Dubravko Bačić
Admir Kulin
Duncan Baker-Brown
Roberta Zarcone
Selma Harrington
Igor Kuvac
Tijana Tufek Memisevic
Joost Declerq
Senada Demirovic
Sanela Klaric
Gil Peled
Gilli Hobsb
Haris Bradić
Elma
Durmisevic
Design for Transformation & high circular building index
Elma Durmišević, creator of EU Labaratory for Circular Buildings in The Netherlands (GTB LAB), founder of Sarajevo Green Design Foundation, Green Design Biennale and Creator of Green Design Centre in Mostar, Guest Prof. at Milan Polytechnic in 2024.
Elma Durmišević, holds a PhD at Delft University of Technology on Transformable Building Structures, and Design for Disassembly in Architecture. As Associate Professor at the University of Twente, Durmisevic developed one of the first master program for dynamic and circular buildings that introduced green engineering in architecture.
Durmisevic is a leading architecture authority on Reversible Circular Building Design and Transformable Buildings. Currently founding director of EU Laboratory for Circulir Buildings in The Netherlands “Laboratory for Green Transformable Buildings” , head of 4D Architects office in Amsterdam, EU UIA Expert for Super Circular Estate in the Netherlands, leads development of EU Digital Deconstruction Platform for circular economy in construction (EU Interreg project) and was initiator of one of the first EU Horizon 2020 projects on circular buildings “Buildings as Material Banks Project”.
Hear vision is one in which homes become extensively transformable, and disassembly and reconfiguration is possible at all construction levels, spatial as well as material.
Durmisevic indicates that dynamic changes in use of buildings coupled with growing environmental issues will require fundamentally different way of building design in the future. Hear design portfolio in last 25 years includes urban planning, multifunctional buildings and sports facilities, offices, villas and flexible and energy saving building systems.
During 20 years of research Durmisevic developed tools for measuring circularity and reversibility such as: Reversible BIM module, Reuse Potential tool, Transformation Capacity Tool.
Furthermore hear design guidelines and protocol for reversible building design are integrated (1) into EU guideline for design of circular buildings,(2) EU H2020 BAMB project (3) as well as in hear circular building design case projects. Durmisevic is author and editor of number of books, scientific papers and articles, and invited speaker on series of public lectures, international conferences and universities.
Lecture series /opening:
Vision 2030
18:00 h
16 October 2024
Green Circular Design Opening Lecture
The aim of green design is to close the material loops and bring materials back into new biological or industrial cycle while eliminating the concept of waste. Unlike car and product design where concept of industrial ecology (closed life cycle of products) has been investigated and applied in the past, this approach is rather new in the field of city and building design.
Considering the fact that the modern economic systems relay on ever increasing consumption of products, that product and building initial use cycle is becoming ever shorter and that most end of life scenarios for buildings and products is waste disposal, there is huge gap between busines as usual and green and circular performance of buildings and cities. The main question put in front of designers in 21st century is how to design and produce zero waste and carbon neutral products and buildings? This question can be successfully answered only by true understanding of multi-layered capacity of buildings and their multiple value propositions which can be unlocked by design.
Architecture is conventionally presented though tree dimensions. However the performance of new generation of buildings is be mastered primarily through 4th dimension representing time and effectiveness of use of building and its materials throughout the time dimension. This is increasing complexity of design and decision making. Design of green circular buildings relays more on systematic design approach, using digital technologies and tools that enable multicriteria decision making (while merging indicators of transformation capacity of a building, reuse potential of its materials, social/wellbeing, environmental and economic impacts) and informed decision making through all life cycle phases of a building.