How buildings can improve life — inside and out | Doris Sung

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🗓️ 27 July 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Architect and building tech innovator Doris Sung presents a compelling vision for reimagining building facades as active contributors to urban life and public health. Showcasing innovative technologies — like buildings that filter particulates out of the air and facades that react to heat — Sung demonstrates how modern architecture can evolve beyond aesthetics to address critical issues like pollution, energy efficiency and urban heat islands, offering a glimpse into a future where architecture improves life for inhabitants and pedestrians alike.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks daily,
0:11.0	where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:15.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:17.0	Doris Sung says buildings can do more than benefit the people on the inside.
0:21.0	In her 2024 talk, the architect points out how the public
0:24.6	facing outsides of buildings could actually do public good. The way facades
0:29.7	could reduce air and noise pollution and more are coming up after the break.
0:37.0	Like TED Talks, you should check out the TED Radio Hour with NPR. Stay tuned after this talk to hear a sneak peek of this week's
0:45.7	episode. And now our Ted Talk of the Day. So have you ever walked in front of a glass facade and see yourself in the reflection
0:56.4	and try to check yourself out. Oh wait wait I forgot the glass facade is
1:01.5	there not for you but it's for the people on the inside
1:04.4	to get a great view out and they're probably looking at you picking the spinach
1:08.0	from your teeth. Have you ever walked in a city, come upon a very large commercial building,
1:15.0	and in the very hot heat of the summer, the doors fly open,
1:19.0	you feel that air-conditioned, air come out and blast you,
1:21.0	and you just sit there and wallow in that cool air.
1:24.0	Oh wait, I forgot.
1:26.0	That cool air is for the people on the inside.
1:29.0	It's a private building.
1:30.0	They won't even let you into use a bathroom.
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