Hello! Does anyone know if there might actual compliance issues with precondition (prerequisite) 87 - BEAUTY AND DESIGN I? This precondition is taken from Living Building Challenge and asks for human delight, celebration of culture, celebration of spirit, celebration of place, and meaningful integration of public art. A professional narrative is supposed to show compliance. These items seem to be very subjective, so I assume that as long as a narrative is in place, the precondition should be OK. Any opinions?
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11475 thumbs up
December 8, 2016 - 1:06 pm
Dionisio, I would agree that anyone who can craft a narrative giving some reasons why the project meets the precondition should be fine.
I've seen LBC projects that I don't consider beautiful, but that somebody did, at least enough to satisfy that narrative!
Lida Lewis
HKS Director of Wellbeing Design| IIDA, WELL Faculty, WELL AP, LEED AP ID+C
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August 5, 2017 - 10:03 am
Dionisio;
While this feature is deliberately vague in terms of the letter of how to comply, it's one that it is good to take to heart in a big way when designing. Beauty, a sense of authenticity of place, a connection to others through culture, art, and other methods, and ensuring one is not only focusing on functionality is key to a WELL Certified project. Following other measures will have positive effects, to be sure, on reduced exposure to toxicity, exposure to positive physical elements such as increased natural light or improved artificial light and opportunities for physical activity, and ensure that fundamental HR and operations policies are in place. However, without a true commitment to beauty, authenticity, and opportunities for delight, we won't move past the mechanical to the truly elevated care for the occupants within. This, I suspect, is the very reason why this is a precondition--it's fundamental to the task at hand.
Dionisio Franca
DirectorWoonerf Inc.
30 thumbs up
August 7, 2017 - 12:36 am
Hi Lida,
Thank you for your inputs. How would you help a client in guiding them to conform their design with this feature requirements?