Tristan Sterk
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| Born | London, Ontario |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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Notable work | Prairie House, Northfield Illinois (2011) |
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Tristan Sterk (also known as Tristan d'Estrée Sterk) is an American-Canadian architect and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[1] His contribution to the practice and teaching of architecture is best described through the application of a distinct branch of optimization theory known as "dynamic optimization."
His work investigates the use of mathematical optimization to develop more efficient building envelopes that account for direct and indirect energy expenditures in total construction outlay. However, his primary contribution to architecture stems from the realization that building systems can make endogenous savings when the form of a building is variably dynamic instead of static.
Work
A salient project that depicts this contribution is Prairie House.[2] Designed in 2011 for a residential site in Northfield, Illinois. The house (unbuilt) uses structural shape-change technology to create a dynamically variable building form. A book chapter documenting the endogenous savings made by the approach compares reductions generated by different categories of building responses, including color, permeability, thermal resistance, and shape change. Of these changes variable, dynamic forms unlock significantly more savings than other responses such as color or thermal resistance. Indeed the critical insight of Sterk's work comes from the finding that dynamically varying forms provide significantly greater energy savings (20-30% is achievable on a normalized basis) than most static baseline forms.[3]
Early career
Sterk worked at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in Chicago, Illinois, and for the architect Peter Busby, at Busby Perkins + Will in Vancouver, British Columbia. He subsequently became the founding partner of The Office for Robotic Architectural Media & Bureau for Responsive Architecture.[4]
Contemporaries
Close contemporaries include Kas Oosterhuis, Chuck Hoberman, Philip Beesley[5], and Michael Fox[6]. Sterk's contributions belong to the field of responsive architecture.
References
- ↑ "School of the Art Institute of Chicago Faculty Profile". School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
- ↑ "Building Dynamics". Taylor Francis Press. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
- ↑ "Persistent Modelling". Routledge Press. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
- ↑ "The Office for Robotic Architectural Media & Bureau for Responsive Architecture". ORAMBRA.com. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
- ↑ "Philip Beesley". Philip Beesley Studio. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
- ↑ "Michael Fox". Fox Lin. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
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