H20 : les eaux de l'oubli
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Avec «H2O», ouvrage suscité par le projet de l'aménagement d'un lac artificiel en plein centre de Dallas (Texas), Illich nous invite à réfléchir non plus sur nous-même dans notre milieu mais sur un événement fondamental de ce milieu : l'eau.
H20 : les eaux de l'oubli
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Avec «H2O», ouvrage suscité par le projet de l'aménagement d'un lac artificiel en plein centre de Dallas (Texas), Illich nous invite à réfléchir non plus sur nous-même dans notre milieu mais sur un événement fondamental de ce milieu : l'eau.
Green Architecture
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À l'heure du développement durable et d'une extension urbaine grandissante, nous ne pouvons plus considérer la ville comme une antinature, un système inconciliable avec les principes de l'écologie. Pourtant, si l'écologie du paysage est aujourd'hui étudiée et mise en œuvre au sein des zones agricoles, il y a encore très peu de connaissances et de recherches sur le(...)
Une écologie du paysage urbain
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À l'heure du développement durable et d'une extension urbaine grandissante, nous ne pouvons plus considérer la ville comme une antinature, un système inconciliable avec les principes de l'écologie. Pourtant, si l'écologie du paysage est aujourd'hui étudiée et mise en œuvre au sein des zones agricoles, il y a encore très peu de connaissances et de recherches sur le fonctionnement du paysage vu par l'écologue dans les systèmes urbanisés : c'est ce qui constitue l'originalité du présent ouvrage. Cet essai a pour ambition de montrer l'intérêt d'une écologie du paysage, appliquée à la gestion des territoires urbains en privilégiant la présence d'une nature qui «fonctionne» dans la ville, notamment par le biais du «maillage vert». L'objectif intéresse non seulement la conservation de la nature et le maintien des biodiversités locales et régionales mais aussi les projets d'urbanisme.
Green Architecture
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Written by a cross-disciplinary core of authors from Europe, Asia and America, this anthology comprises articles and images that consider the use of nature for diverse design approaches. Nature has rendered poetic potential to stimulate, as a metaphor, the design process. From formal, conceptual, geometrical to literal engagements, the scope of potential correlations(...)
Natural Metaphor an anthology of essays on architecture and nature
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Written by a cross-disciplinary core of authors from Europe, Asia and America, this anthology comprises articles and images that consider the use of nature for diverse design approaches. Nature has rendered poetic potential to stimulate, as a metaphor, the design process. From formal, conceptual, geometrical to literal engagements, the scope of potential correlations between nature and design is as far reaching as the human imagination.
Green Architecture
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"XXL-XS" represents the emerging discipline of ecological design by assembling a wide range of innovators with diverse interests. Geo-engineering, synthetic biology, construction site co-robotics, low-energy fabrication, up-cycling waste, minimally invasive design, living materials, and molecular self-assembly are just a few of the important advances explored in the book.(...)
XXL-XS: new directions on ecological design
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"XXL-XS" represents the emerging discipline of ecological design by assembling a wide range of innovators with diverse interests. Geo-engineering, synthetic biology, construction site co-robotics, low-energy fabrication, up-cycling waste, minimally invasive design, living materials, and molecular self-assembly are just a few of the important advances explored in the book. At one extreme are massive public works, at the other, micro to nano-sized interventions that can have equally profound impacts on our world. From terraforming to bio-manufacturing, a whole new generation of designers is proposing unique ways of confronting the difficult challenges ahead. In this way design becomes a totality of relationships that affects all disciplines, which can no-longer be thought of as self-contained fields, each handled separately by narrowly focused specialists. Globalization demands a restructuring of the profession, as we know it. This requires a new breed of generalists who can work across fields and engage research on multiple sites around the globe. Today we need planetary designers versed in the craft of integral design. Our thesis is therefore both global and performative in scope. We need an architecture that is more than just a constellation of bio-picturesque images, digitally generated surface effects, and conventional materials. We seek a holistic architecture that uses the best techniques to connect directly with existing natural systems while creating a renewed ecology that can sustain itself well into the future. Along these lines, many of the projects featured in this book simply abandon the old tropes and construction processes of the past by creating numerous green alternatives that proliferate along unexpected pathways.
Green Architecture
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"SOUPERgreen!" features projects and essays that offer a long overdue critique of the current approach to “green” architecture and, in turn, demonstrate a more appropriate way for architects to address the challenges posed by the environmental crisis. In sharp contrast to contemporary examples of “green” or “sustainable” architecture—which primarily rely upon the(...)
SOUPERgreen!: souped-up green architecture
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"SOUPERgreen!" features projects and essays that offer a long overdue critique of the current approach to “green” architecture and, in turn, demonstrate a more appropriate way for architects to address the challenges posed by the environmental crisis. In sharp contrast to contemporary examples of “green” or “sustainable” architecture—which primarily rely upon the invisible agency of unremarkable technologies and materials to reduce resource consumption, but which do so without producing a necessary shift in the public’s perception of the environment or behavior towards it—"SOUPERgreen!" demonstrates how green technology can not only perform from a measurable standpoint, but can also produce engaging experiences that profoundly alter, enhance, and transform the public’s understanding of the environment. By leveraging the inherently expressive nature of technology in order to dramatize the constantly negotiated relationship between humanity and the natural world, the “souped-up” green architecture featured in "SOUPERgreen!" transforms “greenness” from a mere measurement of environmental performance into an actively engaged and highly conscious lived reality—resulting in a new way of experiencing and understanding the environment that is inherently more ecological.
Green Architecture
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This book presents a refreshed, design-led approach to waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, reflecting work done at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design over a period of three years. Architecture and design currently play a minor role in the design and construction of industrial building types, especially waste-to-energy facilities. As densities increase and consumption patterns(...)
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Architecture and waste: a (re)planned obsolescence
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This book presents a refreshed, design-led approach to waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, reflecting work done at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design over a period of three years. Architecture and design currently play a minor role in the design and construction of industrial building types, especially waste-to-energy facilities. As densities increase and consumption patterns change, the need for more waste-to-energy facilities is only going to increase. Through comparing the well-established waste-to-energy industries in Sweden with less established engagements in the northeast of the United States, opportunities and lessons are revealed. Architects have a role to play in integrating waste-to-energy plants physically and programmatically within their urban or suburban contexts, as well as potentially lessening the generally negative perception of energy recovery plants. These hybrid WTE building typologies have the potential not only re-connect and communicate to the public, but also weave new public or institutional programs with energy production in a mutually beneficial way.
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Material intelligence, simulations, sensors, actuators, as well as the bio-mimetic and digital manufacturing innovations provide revolutionary ideas on growth, adaptability, repair, sensitivity, replication and energy savings in architecture. Should we continue constructing rigid and fixed structures? Or can our habitats begin to think?
Self-sufficient habitat: 5th advanced architecture contest
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Material intelligence, simulations, sensors, actuators, as well as the bio-mimetic and digital manufacturing innovations provide revolutionary ideas on growth, adaptability, repair, sensitivity, replication and energy savings in architecture. Should we continue constructing rigid and fixed structures? Or can our habitats begin to think?
Green Architecture
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Cet ouvrage présente les principaux matériaux de l'architecture: le bois et les matériaux de la biomasse, l'acier, les bétons et les liants hydrauliques, les roches naturelles, le verre et les polymères, les matériaux biosourcés. Chacun d'eux fait l'objet d'une description détaillée (contexte historique de leur utilisation, composition et procédés de transformation,(...)
Matériaux et architecture durable : fabrication 2e éd.
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Cet ouvrage présente les principaux matériaux de l'architecture: le bois et les matériaux de la biomasse, l'acier, les bétons et les liants hydrauliques, les roches naturelles, le verre et les polymères, les matériaux biosourcés. Chacun d'eux fait l'objet d'une description détaillée (contexte historique de leur utilisation, composition et procédés de transformation, propriétés architecturales, constructives et physiques) et d'un bilan environnemental (impact énergétique de leur fabrication, territoires de production et transport, mise en oeuvre sur le chantier, entretien et fin de vie).
Green Architecture
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Grâce à l'intégration d'espaces verts dans les villes, les jardins verticaux combinent le domaine de l'architecture et du paysagisme tout en proposant des solutions de jardinage pour des espaces limités et eh combattant la présence dominante du béton, du métal et du verre. Cet ouvrage expose les meilleurs exemples et les plus innovants projets de jardins verticaux(...)
Murs végétaux : manuel pratique + 42 projets
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Grâce à l'intégration d'espaces verts dans les villes, les jardins verticaux combinent le domaine de l'architecture et du paysagisme tout en proposant des solutions de jardinage pour des espaces limités et eh combattant la présence dominante du béton, du métal et du verre. Cet ouvrage expose les meilleurs exemples et les plus innovants projets de jardins verticaux construits autour du monde. De plus, ce livre comprend une méticuleuse introduction technique qui fournira les notions nécessaires aux architectes et aux designers pour concevoir ce type d'oeuvre. Les jardins verticaux deviennent plus populaires et sont de plus en plus présents dans nos villes. Les projets sélectionnés font preuve d'une grande variété et diversité de jardins verticaux. Chaque exemple est illustré de belles photographies et expliqué avec des textes fournis par les propres concepteurs, devenant une source d'inspiration pour tout architecte, étudiant et individu intéressé par la conception urbanistique.
Green Architecture
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"Recycled theory" is a multidisciplinary dictionary made of entries in form of texts, drawings and quotes, which explore the concept of “recycling” in design cultures and in the theories that nurture them. Usually we recycle things, objects, spaces but more often we return on principles and approaches to rearrange them, put them back into circulation, and override them.(...)
Recycled theory: illustrated dictionary
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"Recycled theory" is a multidisciplinary dictionary made of entries in form of texts, drawings and quotes, which explore the concept of “recycling” in design cultures and in the theories that nurture them. Usually we recycle things, objects, spaces but more often we return on principles and approaches to rearrange them, put them back into circulation, and override them. The practice of recycling is therefore placed in an area of negotiation between memory and amnesia, it brings out the unexpected self-regeneration potential of what exists, our ability to preserve and reinvent it, even through its partial breakdown. The words here collected (from “amnesia” to “zone”) identify materials, procedures, ambiguities, deviations, and potential nexus of recycling, recording terms that tell the different processes of production and sense of city and landscape after recent socio-economic upheavals and the widening of preservation as the prevalent scenario for the project. Recycled Theory comes out of the collaboration of eleven Italian universities engaged in the research “Re-cycle Italy: New Life Cycles for Architecture and Infrastructure of City and Landscape.”
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