Main entry:

Schröpfer, Thomas, author.

Title & Author:

Ecological urban architecture : qualitative approaches to sustainability / Thomas Schröpfer ; with contributions by Limin Hee, John Hong, Mitchell Joachim, Sheila Kennedy, Nico Kienzi, Benjamin Shepherd, Shanta Tucker (Atelier ten), Achim Menges, Federico Parolotto, Eduardo Rico, Matthias Sauerbruch, Sven Stremke, Adravko Trivic, Christian Werthmann.

Publication:

Basel : Birkhauser Architecture, [2012]
©2012

Description:

207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Case studies: planning and implementing ecological urban architecture -- Vauban, Freiburg, Germany -- Valdespartera, Zaragoza, Spain -- Sarriguren, Pamplona, Spain -- BO01, Malmö, Sweden -- Material integration: architecture in the urban environment -- The practice of sustainability -- Materially informated computational design in ecological architecture -- Biotic reeftops for ecological urban architecture -- Mobilizing connectivity, mobility, infrastructure, society -- De-infrastructuring cities -- toward a new urban framework -- Relational urbanism: a systemic approach to urban design -- Sustainable energy landscapes: the power of imagination -- A new synthesis -- Modeling the future of sustainable cities -- Simulating interdependent complexity: beyond prescriptive zoning -- Evaluation of sustainable high-density environments -- Transformation of use: exposing potential -- The necessity of all scales. Planetary design in the age of globality -- Intersecting ecologies -- New perspectives: taking stock of green.

Summary:

The goal of advancing eco cities often remains confined to political or technological issues. This book establishes a focus on architectural and infrastructural design approaches to sustainable urban planning. Starting out from a critical assessment of five prototypical eco cities of recent decades (Vauban/Germany, solarCity/Austria, Valdespartera and Sarriguren/Spain, Bo01/Sweden), the book identifies fields in which architectural and urban designers can use their creative skills and methods to achieve sustainable results on an urban scale. Sustainability is undergoing a shift of focus from quantitative measures toward designoriented, interactive interventions. The range of qualitative solutions in ecological design is discussed here in four topical sections on "Materialize", "Mobilize", "Simulate" and "Transform". For example, "Materialize" explores the potential of eco-design beyond the traditional palette of materials to show how spatial boundaries can be re-imagined as gradients of conditioned versus unconditioned space, working with climatic conditions rather than material boundaries to help generate new forms of urban architecture. Contributions by experts in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, engineering and design theory, among them Achim Menges of Stuttgart University Institute for Computational Design, Federico Parolotto of Mobility in Chain, Edoardo Rico of Groundlab London, Sheila Kennedy of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Matthias Sauerbruch of Sauerbruch Hutton, provide in-depth information on the complexity of eco-design in urban environments and emphasize the need for new sensibilities in disciplinary and trans-disciplinary thinking processes.

ISBN:

9783034608008
3034608004

Subject:

Sustainable architecture Designs and plans.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Ecological houses Designs and plans.
Building materials Environmental aspects.
City planning Environmental aspects.
Sustainability.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture durable Dessins et plans.
Écologie urbaine.
Maisons écologiques Dessins et plans.
Durabilité de l'environnement.
Architecture 21e siècle.
urban environments.
Architecture, Modern.
Ecological houses.
Sustainable architecture.
Stadtökologie
Organisk arkitektur.
Arkitektur miljöaspekter.
Arkitektur och klimat.
Hållbar utveckling.

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286676
Call No.: BIB 227102
Status: Available