Landscape architecture and environmental sustainability: creating positive change through design
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Landscape architecture has a pivotal role in ensuring environmental sustainability through design interventions. This book takes a broad look at strategies and completed projects to provide the reader with a strong understanding of the sustainability challenges being faced by designers today, and potential routes to addressing them. The book covers essential concepts of(...)
Landscape architecture and environmental sustainability: creating positive change through design
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Landscape architecture has a pivotal role in ensuring environmental sustainability through design interventions. This book takes a broad look at strategies and completed projects to provide the reader with a strong understanding of the sustainability challenges being faced by designers today, and potential routes to addressing them. The book covers essential concepts of landscape architecture and environmental sustainability, including: - Ecology, multifunctional landscapes and sensitive intervention - Remediation, cleansing and environmental infrastructure - Social sustainability, design activism and healthy landscapes - Food systems, productive landscapes and transportation - Performance ratings, materials and life cycles Through case studies from around the world and interviews with leading landscape architects and practitioners, this book invites discussion about possible future scenarios, relevant theories and project responses in landscape environmental design. With hundreds of color images throughout the book, and additional study material in the companion website, Joshua Zeunert provides an overview of the multidimensional qualities of landscape sustainability.
Green Architecture
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“Green buildings” that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren’t enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon?the carbon emitted when materials are mined, manufactured, and transported?comprising some ten percent of global emissions. With the built environment doubling by 2030, buildings are a carbon juggernaut threatening to overwhelm the(...)
New carbon architecture: building to cool the climate
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“Green buildings” that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren’t enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon?the carbon emitted when materials are mined, manufactured, and transported?comprising some ten percent of global emissions. With the built environment doubling by 2030, buildings are a carbon juggernaut threatening to overwhelm the climate. Like never before in history, buildings can become part of the climate solution. With biomimicry and innovation, we can pull huge amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and lock it up as walls, roofs, foundations, and insulation. We can literally make buildings out of the sky with a massive positive impact.
Green Architecture
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Imagine a power plant that is also the perfect place to have a picnic. On the foreshore of St. Kilda, Australia rises just such a structure—one that merges renewable energy production with leisure, recreation, and education. This volume imagines a world where the infrastructures that power our cities are designed to be reflections of culture, where public parks provide(...)
Energy overlays: Land Art generator initiative
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Imagine a power plant that is also the perfect place to have a picnic. On the foreshore of St. Kilda, Australia rises just such a structure—one that merges renewable energy production with leisure, recreation, and education. This volume imagines a world where the infrastructures that power our cities are designed to be reflections of culture, where public parks provide clean electricity to the city grid, and where the art that brings depth and vibrancy to our lives also measurably responds to the challenges of climate change. ''Energy Overlays'' provides a glimpse into a post-carbon future where energy infrastructure is seamlessly woven into the fabric of our cities as works of public art.
Green Architecture
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How do we make sense of the Earth at a moment in which it is presented in crisis? ''Geostories'' is a manifesto on the environmental imagination that renders sensible the issues of climate change and through geographic fiction invites readers to relate to the complexity of Earth systems in their vast scales of time and space. The book is organized into three(...)
Geostories: another architecture for the environment
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How do we make sense of the Earth at a moment in which it is presented in crisis? ''Geostories'' is a manifesto on the environmental imagination that renders sensible the issues of climate change and through geographic fiction invites readers to relate to the complexity of Earth systems in their vast scales of time and space. The book is organized into three sections–terrarium, aquarium, planetarium, each of which revisits such devices of wonder that assemble publics around representations of the Earth. The series of architectural projects becomes a medium to synthesize different forms and scales of knowledge on technological externalities, such as oil extraction, deep-sea mining, ocean acidification, water shortage, air pollution, trash, space debris, and a host of other social-ecological issues. Through design research, ''Geostories'' brings together spatial history, geographic representation, projective design, and material public assemblies to speculate on ways of living with such legacy technologies on the planet.
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Zumtobel Group Award 2017 : innovations for sustainability and humanity in the built environment
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The Zumtobel Group Award addresses the urgent need for sustainability in architecture and places people at the centre of the living environment. This booklet presents all the projects from the final round.
Zumtobel Group Award 2017 : innovations for sustainability and humanity in the built environment
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The Zumtobel Group Award addresses the urgent need for sustainability in architecture and places people at the centre of the living environment. This booklet presents all the projects from the final round.
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Sustainable design 6
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Le Global Award for Sustainable Architecture a été créé en 2007 par l'architecte et professeure Jana Revedin avec la Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine de Paris comme partenaire culturel. Il récompense chaque année cinq architectes qui partagent l'éthique du développement durable et proposent des expériences innovantes, en milieu urbain comme dans les grands(...)
Sustainable design 6
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Le Global Award for Sustainable Architecture a été créé en 2007 par l'architecte et professeure Jana Revedin avec la Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine de Paris comme partenaire culturel. Il récompense chaque année cinq architectes qui partagent l'éthique du développement durable et proposent des expériences innovantes, en milieu urbain comme dans les grands territoires. Les 55 architectes lauréats depuis la création du prix forment un réseau collectif mondial d'échange et d'expérimentation scientifique et professionnelle : le Global Award for Sustainable Architecture Community. Le thème retenu pour le jury de la onzième édition du Global Award était «Les ressources invisibles de l'architecture».
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Architecture écologique
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Trente architectes internationaux prennent la parole pour révéler les nouvelles tendances de l'architecture durable et précisent comment ils ont contribué par leurs idées aux bases de cette architecture, présentant des solutions originales et écologiques.
Architecture écologique
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Trente architectes internationaux prennent la parole pour révéler les nouvelles tendances de l'architecture durable et précisent comment ils ont contribué par leurs idées aux bases de cette architecture, présentant des solutions originales et écologiques.
Green Architecture
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E´dite´ a` l'occasion de la XXIIe Triennale di Milano. L'ouvrage explore a` travers 9 projets comment la discipline qu'est le design lorsqu'elle s'attache a` conside´rer la nature, l'e´cologie et les environnements, de´place les frontie`res des pratiques : du terrain vers la re´flexion, des faits scientifiques a` leur repre´sentation ou leur activation, de la me´tropole(...)
Design : de la nature à l'environnement, nouvelles défitions / Design: from nature to environment, new definitions
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E´dite´ a` l'occasion de la XXIIe Triennale di Milano. L'ouvrage explore a` travers 9 projets comment la discipline qu'est le design lorsqu'elle s'attache a` conside´rer la nature, l'e´cologie et les environnements, de´place les frontie`res des pratiques : du terrain vers la re´flexion, des faits scientifiques a` leur repre´sentation ou leur activation, de la me´tropole vers la Re´union, de la France vers l'Asie, l'Ame´rique du Sud... Les architectes, urbanistes et designers présents ont collaboré activement et avec suffisamment de confiance dans le projet éditorial et du pavillon pour chercher, trier et con er les éléments qui documentent leur projet. L'ouvrage est ainsi une archive organisée.
Green Architecture
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This book explores the history and significance of rammed earth construction in Central Europe, particularly in Switzerland, using historical examples to investigate the potential of this building technique for contemporary construction. Rammed earth has material advantages, such as its strength, durability, and non-combustible nature, while potential disadvantages, such(...)
Rammed earth: tradition and potential
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This book explores the history and significance of rammed earth construction in Central Europe, particularly in Switzerland, using historical examples to investigate the potential of this building technique for contemporary construction. Rammed earth has material advantages, such as its strength, durability, and non-combustible nature, while potential disadvantages, such as on-site weather dependency, can be circumvented by using prefab elements. It is ecologically sustainable and completely recyclable as well. This pioneering and comprehensive study contributes to safeguarding existing architectural heritage while also providing a foundation for further research.
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Green architecture today
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Thirty international architects are selected for the leading role they’ve played in the professional development of modern sustainable architecture. Residential and commercial projects are offered as examples of the best new ideas in green living. 'Green Architecture today' presents an intriguing spectrum of offerings. Large-scale photos and detail shots are accompanied(...)
Green architecture today
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Thirty international architects are selected for the leading role they’ve played in the professional development of modern sustainable architecture. Residential and commercial projects are offered as examples of the best new ideas in green living. 'Green Architecture today' presents an intriguing spectrum of offerings. Large-scale photos and detail shots are accompanied by diagrams of sustainable features such as active and passive cooling and heating systems.
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