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The federal courtrooms are not very easy to accomplish because there are designs that have to take into account individual preferences of voices and judiciary to the geometry of space and placement of elements such as the bank of the judge, jury and the rostrum of the witness stand.** __//**Video-Podcast summary**//__
 * The General Services Administration (GSA) led a pilot project to use virtual reality in the design process of a courtroom. The judges can see the stereographic representation before construction begins, saving money in case someone wants to do some modification. ****
 * Finally, a design research center built virtual 3D model based on drawings of DAO, with the help of the engineering company Arup in New York.To validate the acoustic characteristics of the design, GSA relied on a 3D model created by Arup Acoustics,—which was tested last summer in their laboratory in New York—they changed a surface and added sound-absorbing materials to improve speech intelligibility**.


 * In the interview can be listened Arthur Aw, a young man who is a successful architect and director of Land Planning Group at ITC Corp, in Singapore. He was a speaker at the first Sarasota International Design Summit at 2006. In the interview also talks Peter Kageyama, the summit's producer and president of Creative Tampa Bay. Both of them talks about how the design can affect in a positive way with the professional development of scientist. They talked about the design of the Biopolis, in Singapore, which is a research building who take care of scientifically and biomedical investigation. They also talked about the urban planning of the building and the landscapes giving a lot of importance to the around, and making that the research facility does not only be a research building, it has been designed giving a directly connection with the environment**.

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 * The bio construction attempt to create a harmonic and direct relationship involving technological applications, functional aspects, design and a direct link with a natural or urban environment for building. The bio construction purpose is to make useful places that respond to the human necessities in a healthy, sustainable and integral condition**


 * __There are some aspects that a sustainable building must have.__**


 * Healthy construction materials**
 * Acoustic comfort**
 * Electric and water installations**
 * Recyclable system**
 * Functional and design interior: color, light, spaces and dimensions**


 * __The bio construction is a reality.__**


 * We choose this topic because in all the architectural profession the bio construction is more important than the esthetical problem because the bio construction can help not only to feel an integrity spaces, it also can help to care the planet and reduce the cost of all the materials, because the recyclable system its more effective. We got all this information when we were looking in the internet and all the architectural current, so in other ways, our e-zines also the architectural worlds do not answer directly to the ambient, the architectural get advantage from the ambient, but do not help it.**