design ecological

Design EcologiesEssays on the Nature of Design

Princeton Architectural Press

2011年2月24日星期四

1. Weeding the city of unsustainable cooling

Cameron Tokinwise


Demands for designers

to be systematic modern design history

Throughout the history of modern design and modern design education, there have been demands for designers to be more systematic.What might be different this time around is actually implementing such revoluntionary programs.


Systematic Design

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A New Break

A New System

What does a systematic design look like? Out come of such systematic design look like? NATURE

system builder


Once the author believed need a massive change, but ways of being worthy of sustainment persist in the existing mess.

Project of radically reforming the cities in which we live

A great many changes over time

more designing, lots more

NOT one great once-and-for-allchange toward a wholly new city

NOT a new designing


New York Cool

PREVIOUS： OUTCOME：

• High Summer heat

• Humidity

• Little night time reduction in temperature

• High density before cooling system developed

• Unevenly punctured facade

• Like nonindigenous species,weeds

• More energy than larger AC

• Multiple inefficiencies


“Kick The Box”The replacement of objects rather than entire cityscapes

What ecosystem sustain window-box air conditioners and where are the leverage points that the designer might exploit in this species eradication task?


“New Ways Of Feeling Natural”

physiologicalpsychological

historical

AC represented to USNature

• expectation of coolness

• air speed

• lower humidity

• individual control

blarblarblar..


“Managing building service system”

Building-design solutions are preferable

Building-scale solutions are preferable

based on natural ventilation,mechanical system,or both

business to businessprofit from the increasingly efficient delivery of a fixed level of “coolth” rather than increasing quantities of electricity


“Network Lock-in”

Allies:

energy companies

government and nongovernmental agencies

reduction of greenhouse gas

promotion of local skilled labor

affordable housing

architectural heritage organizations


“2 Consequences”

1. The Ac is not a Tech to encompassing whole,but a agglomeration of network that need,in each case to be negotiated.

2. Not a problem to be solved but a constellation of colliding desires to reconfigured and redirected;many changes,not just massive changes


II. Public Farm 1P.F.1

Amale Andraos &Dan Wood of WORKac


“Urban Farm” Industrial Farming

A perfect starting point for a new kind of sustainable city

InContrast

P.F.1 P.F.1 Coffeewithin walking distance

tastyorganic grownsummer-fresh fruit&vegetables

Ruralization Experiment

self-sustainingself-regulating

multi-dimensional productive garden


“Section”

a working farm ＋a party space

a design that allow a farm to coexist with activities, spaces&experiences beneath

CONCEPT:megastructure,blurred distinctions between architecture,urbanism&infractructureRethink infrastructure and ecological system as potentially integral to architecture


“Structure”MATERIAL:cardboard tube,used on construction sites for pouring concreteDaisy pattern,central picking hole or column


“Program”


“Planting”


“Details”


“Water&Power”


“Chicken”


“Collaboration&Post Life”


III.BIG NATURE

Jane Amidon


LA Projects onenvironmental remediation

1980

What is postremediation motivations for LA?

1980s

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“making” “fixing”

Public Reaction:fusion of Economic/Social/Environment vitalization

Previous: passively protectNow: actively building and enhance nature around our daily existence

EG.Detroit’s urban programme;Chicago’s Green Alley Programme(storm water filtration)


“Operative Ecology as a Problem and a Solution”

1. Utility&Ideology2. Remediation3. Soften:3 strategies “Inhabiting” “Transforming” “Re-calibrating”


“Big Nature:Productive & Seductive”

Preservation

Remediation

Entrepreneurial Big NatureThe go-to landscape

Environmentally productive & Socially Seductive

blur from an objective terrain to a subjective state


“Big Nature:Productive & Seductive”

redefine our expectation of public space

Common traits of Projects:

• “interconnected”

• “multitasking”

• “consensual”

• “hurdles”

fix environmental contamination <


“Conclusion”

6 LAYERS OF NATURE:

What is 6th?

Green Cities= social motivation

• wilderness(nature alone);

• agriculture(nature+humanity);

• culture(nature+art+religion+leisure);

• nature of industry(nature+mechanization);

• postindustrial nature(reclamation);


“Conclusion”Our Landscape need to arouse desire in public:

• desire to participate

• desire to cultivate

• desire to advocate

Richard Weller,critic Landscape Architect :

“....next landscape as a kind of ecomodernism,free of romanticism and aesthetic.....”

ECOMODERNISM :

not just about protection or remediation;

BUT AN entrepreneurial redefinition of our relationship to nature


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