This book is a reflection on contemporary computational design thinking at the intersection of architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture, in a time marked by complex challenges like climate change, urbanization and population growth. Based on a critical rethinking of the notion of ground and the relation between the manmade and the natural environment, an understanding of architecture as regenerative practice is proposed. It aims at a built environment as landscape, at an architecture of prosthetic nature. The design approach is illustrated by a number of design experiments conducted within a studio setting and complemented by a series of conversations with leading experts on sustainable design and landscape architecture.
Author(s): Pia Fricker, Toni Kotnik
Series: SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 95
City: Singapore
Foreword: Perpetual Boundary Judgments
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Contents
About the Authors
1 Introduction
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2 Convergence
2.1 Figure Without Ground
2.2 Grounding
2.3 Operative Surfaces
2.4 Layered Land-Scape
2.5 Operative Layers
2.6 Contextual Figuration of Ground
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3 Patterns of Interaction
3.1 Topological Turn
3.2 Topological Design Thinking
3.3 Patterns That Connect
3.4 Organized Matter
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4 Computing Land-Scapes
4.1 Performative Patterns
4.2 Digital Ecology Extended
4.3 Operative Extension of Nature
4.4 On the Notion of Flows
4.5 Umweltecture—Sustainable Visions Between Architecture and Landscape
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Epilogue
A.1 Interview with Emanuele Naboni
A.2 Interview with Christophe Girot
