A Responsible Approach
The Mint Project will undertake a rational and repeatable approach to sustainability that can provide a model for civic and cultural institutions as well as historic landmarks and existing buildings. Its design integrates key environmentally aware strategies for each area of sustainable focus:
1. Site's Characteristics
2. Building Materials
3. Indoor Experience
4. Energy Use
5. Water Use
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2. Building Materials
3. Indoor Experience
4. Energy Use
5. Water Use
Image courtesy of HOK
SITEIntegrate site's attributes into design, use native, adaptive, and productive (food) plantings, incorporate non-potable irrigation sources and recapture stormwater runoff.
MATERIALSReuse existing building materials, reduce new construction, design for durability, facilitate efficient operations and recycling, and select green materials.
INDOOR EXPERIENCESupport the needs of the exhibit galleries, highlight building as an exhibit itself, provide numerous connections to outdoors, and adapt comfort to natural external atmosphere.
ENERGY USEReduce loads, implement passive and active conservation strategies, recover partially used energy and explore selfgeneration opportunities.
WATERUse efficient fixtures, incorporate possible site and mechanical system efficiencies, include lowimpact sources of water supply.
The key goal and opportunity for The Mint Project is making it the most sustainably innovative National Historic Landmark in the United States, to serve as a model for the renovation of other historic buildings. Over the next 20 years, approximately 150 billion square feet of existing buildings will need to be refurbished, remodeled, or rebuilt.
- Storytelling through the unveiling of the building and its systems
- dapting the native ecology of the area
- Design for future
- flexibility, adaptation, and endurance