Name: Aimee M. Schefano
Class: Thinking Green
Instructor: Cecilia Hardy + Katie Kaiser
Date: Fall 2010
In most school assignments you have a specific "client" whose needs must be fulfilled by the final program and design of each space. For the Thinking Green course the environment is the client, and so are you as you inhabit these environments. As an eight week assignment students were asked to analyze the Site, Energy, Water, Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), and Materials of an interior space. Aimee chose to examine her office work space because she spends most of her day there. Her thought was that improving the sustainable qualities of an office space would benefit the environment as well as herself.
After looking into sustainable improvements generally, she chose to focus on lighting quality, energy consumption, ventilation and plant life because she felt the employees would benefit most from improvements in these areas. Once these issues were identified Aimee designed a combined solution to address each in a simple, cost effective and energy reducing way.
