Comments on: Can a Gas Station Really be Green? Office dA Thinks so.

By: Huugh

Huugh — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:46:03 +0000

I find this article very interesting as I too am doing a very similar project for a Design Thinking module at University. I find the above pictured example too disorderly, however quite agree with the idea of the station being “stripped down to its most minimal components”. It’ll be interesting to see the pictures you will be uploading, if any.

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By: cjmemay

cjmemay — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:55:45 +0000

As a designer, I have to question this idea that you can’t make a gas station green. Imagine you are an ethical, environmentally conscious architect who is approached by someone who is approached by someone to redesign their gas station, in a green way.

You can a) turn them down, because they sell gas, something which 99.9% of us rely on CONSISTENTLY EVERY DAY, if in no other way, indirectly. Can you honestly say that no product you purchase or service performed for or by you requires gasoline? If so, thats amazing, but not most people. And if you can’t, isn’t that a bit hypocritical?

Or b) accept the job, and make sure your design is conscious, helpful, and conservative, and has the least impact it can.

It is a green gas station. It isn’t a green field. It is a green VERSION of something else. Biodiesel emits carbon, as well, but it is a green alternative to petrol. There is no “green” standard, just people doing what they can to reduce the ill effects of our presence.

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