Fer Studio Interview by Taylor Huff

In this interview Douglas Pierson and Christopher Mercier, Partners and Design Principals of Form Environment Research (fer) Studio discuss their recent rehabilitation and greening of a 100-year-old building in Louisville, Kentucky. Their session at Green Building Focus will use this project as a case study for the incorporation of environment into building design. Listen as Pierson and Mercier discuss their experience modernizing this historical structure, which is awaiting LEED platinum certification. As designers Pierson and Mercier look beyond green systems and materials, exploring what it means to create an environmental space. For these men, the deeper question relates to making space more environmentally friendly as an experience and how a building directs interaction within the environment. In their session at Green Building Focus Pierson says the pair won’t be talking about the bells and whistles of their recent Louisville project, but rather addressing the questions of “how to you walk from one space to another and how do you perceive space and light as you proceed through the building?” Additionally they will address building within the context of community through spacial design relationships.