Hortitecture
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Hortitecture
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Author : Almut Grüntuch-Ernst
language : en
Publisher: Jovis Verlag
Release Date : 2018
Hortitecture written by Almut Grüntuch-Ernst and has been published by Jovis Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Architecture categories.
HORTITECTURE explores synergies combining architecture and vital plant material - taking plants off the ground into a new conceptual and spatial context. - WorldCat.
Botanical Architecture
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Author : Paul Dobraszczyk
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2024-11-12
Botanical Architecture written by Paul Dobraszczyk and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-12 with Architecture categories.
An original call to reorient architecture around our relationship to plants. When we look at trees, we see a form of natural architecture, and yet we have seemingly always exploited trees to make new buildings of our own. Whereas a tree creates its own structure, humans generally destroy other things to build, with increasingly disastrous consequences. In Botanical Architecture, Paul Dobraszczyk looks closely at how elements of plants—seeds, roots, trunks, branches, leaves, flowers, and canopies—compare with and constitute human-made buildings. Given the omnipresence of plant life in and around our structures, Dobraszczyk argues that we ought to build as much for plants as for ourselves, understanding that our lives are always totally dependent on theirs. Botanical Architecture offers a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture.
Gaia S Web
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Author : Karen Bakker
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2024-04-16
Gaia S Web written by Karen Bakker and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-16 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A riveting exploration of one of the most important dilemmas of our time: will digital technology accelerate environmental degradation, or could it play a role in ecological regeneration? At the uncanny edge of the scientific frontier, Gaia’s Web explores the promise and pitfalls the Digital Age holds for the future of our planet. Instead of the Internet of Things, environmental scientist and tech entrepreneur Karen Bakker asks, why not consider the Internet of Living Things? At the surprising and inspiring confluence of our digital and ecological futures, Bakker explores how the tools of the Digital Age could be mobilized to address our most pressing environmental challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss. Interspersed with ten elegiac, enigmatic parables, each of which is based on an existing technology, Gaia’s Web evokes the conundrums we face as the World Wide Web intertwines with the Web of Life. A new generation of innovators is deploying digital technology to come to the aid of the planet, using spy satellites to track down environmental criminals, inviting animals to the Metaverse, and biohacking Frankenstein-like biobots as environmental sentinels. But will they end up doing more harm than good? In an engaging take on conservation technology, Bakker looks at the digital tech applications to environmental issues from predatory harvesting of environmental data to human bycatch and eco-surveillance capitalism. If we address these issues and mobilize digitally mediated forms of citizen science, she argues, digital tech could help reverse environmental harms and advance environmental sustainability. And in the process, Big Tech might be transformed for the better. With its uniquely broad scope—combining insights from computer science, ecology, engineering, environmental science, and environmental law—Gaia’s Web introduces profoundly novel ways of addressing our most pressing environmental challenges—mitigating climate change, protecting endangered species—and creating new possibilities for ecological justice by empowering nonhumans to participate in environmental regulation.
Building Biology
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Author : Nurgül Ece
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2018-03-19
Building Biology written by Nurgül Ece and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-19 with Architecture categories.
Health and environmental compatibility are key topics in contemporary society. The book shows how the built environment can be aesthetically pleasing, modern and, at the same time, healthy and environmentally friendly. It makes the link between architecture as a design task and a building biology approach to design. Building biology teaches us about the holistic interaction between people and their built environment. It combines building culture with ecology and disciplines such as chemistry, biology, geology, and psychology. Using the building of the Institute of Building Biology + Sustainability (IBN) as a model, building biology criteria and approaches are explained in detail. Numerous additional current projects illustrate how these are implemented in responsible, healthy, and hence sustainable architecture.
Mrs Brown At Witney
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Author : mrs Brown (fict.name.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
Mrs Brown At Witney written by mrs Brown (fict.name.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with categories.
Green Obsession
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Author : Stefano Boeri Architetti
language : en
Publisher: Actar D, Inc.
Release Date : 2021-12-09
Green Obsession written by Stefano Boeri Architetti and has been published by Actar D, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-09 with Architecture categories.
Green Obsession traces the long path that architect Stefano Boeri and his studio - Stefano Boeri Architetti - have followed in the last fifteen years of practice, aiming at the redefinition of the relationship between city and nature. The book follows a discursive thread, alternating dialogues and scientific essays by some of the main protagonists who have contributed to widening the perspective on this subject, helping to raise awareness while protecting the world and its biodiversity. Cities have contributed for centuries to the promotion of some of humanity’s greatest ideas, we must now urgently include them as among the principal players in the environmental debate and at the forefront of any policy tackling and countering – possibly reversing - climate change. Nevertheless, even today one of the most significant technologies capable of absorbing CO2 and restoring our environment is photosynthesis. Planting trees, in addition to protecting existing natural areas and biodiversity, together with de-carbonization, renewable energies, digitalization, smart mobility and the circular economy could be the set of strategies necessary to tackle climate change. Today the effects of the Anthropocene age are ever more visible, changing our environment and affecting every species that lives within it. Green Obsession offers a path to be taken, a hard but still necessary paradigm shift – even for architecture and urbanism – that aims to give a voice to this much needed ecological transition. This book aims to unveil the processes and the complexity involved in the search for a new kind of urbanism, while raising questions and opening old wounds related to the relationship between the human species and Nature and finally putting these fragments together to create a portrait of our era. We need to conceive cities as new green catalysts. Now more than ever, it is essential to act together as separate individuals and professionals, joining the cause as members of the global community with a shared environmental strategy. We all have to open the era of a new alliance between Nature and City. With Contributions from Emanuele Coccia, Jane Goodall, Paul Hawken, Cecil Konijnendijk, David Miller, Harini Nagendra, Giuseppe Sala and Giorgio Vacchiano."
Conceptual Joining
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Author : Lukas Allner
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2021-11-22
Conceptual Joining written by Lukas Allner and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-22 with Architecture categories.
This book explores experimental approaches to the design and construction of wooden structures in architecture, while presenting the results of an artistic research project. Through the use of digital tools, the anatomy of wood becomes a design-determining principle for spatial structures. The architects and artists also explore the potential of traditional craftsmanship and derive from this a material-oriented practice. Structures are not designed here for a specific use, but rather open up various usage possibilities due to their unique spatial and geometric properties. The documentation provides insight into an open-ended research process. Guest contributions reflect on the underlying concepts and thus the future relevance of wood as a building material.
Conceptual Landscapes
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Author : Simon M. Bussiere
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-05-15
Conceptual Landscapes written by Simon M. Bussiere and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-15 with Architecture categories.
Conceptual Landscapes explores the dilemma faced in the early moments of design thinking through a gradient of work in landscape and environmental design media by both emerging and well-established designers and educators of landscape architecture. It questions where and, more importantly, how the process of design starts. The book deconstructs the steps of conceptualizing design in order to reignite pedagogical discussions about timing and design fundamentals, and to reveal how the spark of an idea happens – from a range of unique perspectives. Through a careful arrangement of visual essays that integrate analog, digital, and mixed-media works and processes, the book highlights differences between diverse techniques and triggers debate between design, representation, technology, and creative culture in the field. Taken together, the book’s visual investigation of the conceptual design process serves as a learning tool for aspiring designers and seasoned professionals alike. By situating student work alongside that of experienced teachers and landscape architects, the book also demystifies outdated notions of individual genius and sheds new light on the nearly universally messy process of discovery, bridged across years and diverse creative vocabularies in the conceptual design process. Lavishly illustrated with over 210 full color images, this book is a must-read for students and instructors in landscape architecture.
The Exhausted Of The Earth
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Author : Ajay Singh Chaudhary
language : en
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Release Date : 2024-02-13
The Exhausted Of The Earth written by Ajay Singh Chaudhary and has been published by Watkins Media Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-13 with Political Science categories.
Marrying the scientific and political sides of the climate crisis issue, this is a hopeful call to arms about how we can overcome climate change. Climate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it's about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is to be done? To answer this question, Ajay Singh Chaudhary brings together both the science and the politics of climate change. He shows how a new politics particular to the climate catastrophe demands a bitter struggle between those attached to the power, wealth, and security of "business-as-usual" and all of us, those exhausted, in every sense of the word, by the status quo. Replacing Promethean, romantic, and apocalyptic fairytales with a new story for every exhausted inhabitant of this exhausted world, The Exhausted of the Earth outlines the politics and the power needed to alter the course of our burning world far beyond, far better than, mere survival.
Growing Architecture
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Author : Ferdinand Ludwig
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2022-12-19
Growing Architecture written by Ferdinand Ludwig and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-19 with Architecture categories.
A growing, living house, a building made of a plant seems to be a contradiction in terms. Nevertheless, the Khasi in eastern India already knew how to connect the branches of rubber trees to form footbridges, and in southern Germany dance lime trees formed the centre of villages for centuries. Following on from this, the new discipline of Baubotanik is dedicated to designing with trees. Built projects, prototypes and visionary concepts point the way to a new green architecture. This introduction shows the possibilities of such living constructions and goes into the botanical growth laws that guide the design. The basics of constructing with trees are presented. The book encourages a whole new look at architecture that becomes part of urban nature.