Main entry:

Margolis, Liat, author.

Title & Author:

Living systems : innovative materials and technologies for landscape architecture / Liat Margolis, Alexander Robinson.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

A Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2007.

Description:

191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 27 cm

Notes:
Systems and applications : LAUNCH : Multi-tiered vine park : MFO Park, Zurich / Raderschall Landschaftsarchitekten AG + Burckhardt & Partner AG -- Misting vine pergola : Parque de Diagonal Mar, Barcelona / Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue -- Wind adapted road canopy structure : Palio de Bougainvilleas, San Juan, Puerto Rico / West 8 -- Fire-escape ecosystem : Vertical Garden, London / GROSS. MAX + Mark Dion -- Parasitic vegetal structure : MAK t6 VACANT, The MAK Center and SCI-Arc, Los Angeles / David Fletcher + Juan Azulay -- STRATIFY : Mechanically stabilized landform : Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle / Weiss/Manfredi Architects -- Floating grass plain : Wonder Holland, Dutch Embassy, Rome / West 8 -- Multi-operational modular surface : The High Line, Section I, New York / Field Operations -- Gradient of resilience : Safe Zone, Reford Gardens, Grand-Métis, Quebec / StoSS Landscape Urbanism -- Surface inversion : Maritime Youth House, Sundby Harbour, Copenhagen / PLOT=BIG+JDS -- FLUID : Weaving porous and nonporous surfaces : Allianz Arena Munich Stadium, Munich / Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten + Herzon & de Meuron -- Inflatable dam system : Environmental restoration of Besòs River, Barcelona / Barcelona Regional Agència Metropolitana de Desenvolupament Urbanístic i d'Infraestructures S.A. -- Stormwater garden : Blackstone Power Plant renovation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA / Landworks Studio, Inc. -- Drop structures for suburban stormwater system : Shop Creek, Aurora, CO / Wenk Associates, Inc. + Mueller Engineering, Ind. + Black & Veatch -- Networked sidewalk stormwater system : SW 12th Avenue Green Street Project, Portland, OR / Portland Bureau of Environmental Services -- Biotechnical wave & erosion control structures : Delta In-Channel Islands, Sacramento-San Joaquin River, San Francisco Bay MBK Engineers + Kjeldsen Biological Consulting + LSA Associates, Inc. -- GROOMING : Tree crutches growing guides : Courtyard Garden, University Library, Universiteit Utrecht, Holland / West 8 -- Hedge-trimming armature : Shoulder hedge, The Lurie Garden, Millennium Park, Chicago / Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, Ltd. + Piet Oudolf + Robert Israel -- Artificial winter climate for a bamboo garden : Hybridized hydrologies, Erie Street Plaza, Milwaukee / StoSS Landscape Urbanism -- Saltwater herbicide system : Marsh planters, East River Ferry Landing, New York / Ken Smith Landscape Architect -- Low-maintenance perennial plantings : Riem Landscape Park Munich / LUZ Landschaftsarchitekten -- Stunted growth pattern : Elsässertor office building, Basel, Switzerland / Vogt Landscaftsarchitekten + Herzog & de Meuron.
DIGESTIVE : Bio-remediation park design : Former British Petroleum Park, Sydney, Australia / McGregor + Partners -- Fluvially integrated effluent wetlands : Environmental restoration of Besòs River, Barcelona / Barcelona Regional Agència Metropolitana de Desenvolupament Urbanístic i d'Infraestructures S.A. -- Water-cleansing biotope : DaimlerChrysler Plaza, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin / Atelier Dreiseitl -- On-site sewage-treatment system : Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC / Andropogon Associates + Kieran Timlerlake Associates + Natural Systems International -- Ground reconstitution strategy : Urban Outfitters Navy Yard Headquarters, Philadelphia, / D.I.R.T. Studio -- Strategic contaminated soil placement : Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam / Gustafson Porter -- TRANSLATE : Pneumatic body : Ephemeral structures, Olympic Games, Athens / ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] -- Powered by wind, the ground is a turntable : Courtyard in the Wind, Buildings Department Administration BUilding, Munich / Acconci Studio + Wolfgang Hermann Niemeyer -- Weather informed park access system : Environmental restoration of Besòs River, Barcelona / Barcelona Regional Agència Metropolitana de Desenvolupament Urbanístic i d'Infraestructures S.A. -- Fiber optic marsh : Field's Point, Providence, RI / Abby Feldman, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design -- VOLATILE : Responsive cloud machine : Harvey Milk Memorial, San Francisco / Christian Werthmann & LOMA architecture.landscape.urbanism -- Computer animated rain : Pitterpatterns, Stadthaus, Scharnhauser Park, Stuttgart / J. MAYER H. Architekten -- Dynamic thermal wind wall : Wind veil, Mesa, AZ and Technorama Façade, Winterthur, Switzerland / Ned Kahn -- Impression of rain : Weather Garden, The Park Hyatt Hotel, Zurich / Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten + Melli, Peter Architekten -- Products and technologies.
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Summary:

The use of innovative new materials is an important trend in landscape architecture today. This book presents the available materials and technologies in the context of practical applications, some of them experimental, some of them mature.

ISBN:

9783764377007
3764377003

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Landscape architecture Case studies.
Landscape architecture Technological innovations.
Landscape construction.
Architecture du paysage Innovations.
Architecture du paysage Études de cas.
Espaces verts Construction.
Architecture du paysage.
landscape architecture (discipline)
Landschaftsgestaltung Technische Innovation.
Technische Innovation Landschaftsgestaltung.

Form/genre:

Case studies

Added entries:

Robinson, Alexander (Landscape architect)

Innovative materials and technologies for landscape architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253210
Call No.: BIB 182914
Status: Available