The role of passive environmental control and civic design in the work of Kohn Pedersen Fox (London).

The work of Kohn Pedersen Fox (London) emphasises the civic responsibility of buildings and is primarily concerned with the integration of environmentally responsive elements into buildings within a civic context. The development of facades and roofs that perform a range of environmental tasks has been explored through a series of building designs. These use passive environmental control as a contribution to urban design by providing transition zones between street and building that can be used by both the public and building users. These 'soft edges' to buildings have been developed in the form of two generic solutions that deal with varying design requirement: 'thin' facades and 'layered' facades.