Kira Gould talks with SOM’s Yasemin Kologlu and Ellen Lou. Featured in Architect.

Too often, we talk about carbon as if buildings exist in a vacuum. Buildings are part of built and human systems, and emissions are associated with all aspects of those contexts—people and jobs, open space, vehicle miles traveled, adjacency of uses, and infrastructure and utilities.

SOM’s Yasemin Kologlu, Intl. Assoc. AIA, and Ellen Lou, FAIA, are interrogating carbon impacts in the context of building uses, density, transportation, and open space. I talked to them about their research projects—including Urban Sequoia and the in-progress Square Mile Carbon Study—which explore carbon ecosystems…

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