Green Dream: How Future Cities Can Outsmart Nature
Winy Maas (Editor), Ulf Hackauf (Editor), Pirjo Haikola (Editor)The following work represents my personal ideas and findings on the issues discussed within the book.
There are certain quotes selected from the book.
This article is for generating and collecting research for an interior spatial design Course work. Hope it would also be a source of ideas for other.
The book presents first that Green is good. but Green is abused.Green is also about calculating whether one design or material is worth the foot prints.
Issues on waste management, energy supply and transportation. Green is about to look at the whole package and wider perspectives.
"It is not only about energy but also about materials, biodiversity and land use. It is evolutionary; it is visual; it is accessible. And it takes different, even contradictory opinions into account."
LEED (Leaderhip in Energy and Environmental Design)
BREEAM ( BRE Environmental Assesment Method)
In chapter 2, Ulf Hackauf, pirjo Haikola, Winy Maas, Annaik Deceunicnk, Ryan Forster and Gonzalo Rivas explores on 22 Green bu ildings in present. Analyzing the failings , the contradictions and mised opportunities of these designs. Hopefully offering new improved ideas for future projects.
The first failings of the green design was, they are UGLY.
"What bugs me most about the fad for green architecture is the notion that virtue makes for better design. Ok, I suppose an ugly green building is better than an ugly non- green building - but it's still ugly"
Cathleen McGuigan, Newsweek, 6 September 2008
Norman Foster's : Hearst Tower in Manhattan"...much green architecture reflects a quality that Ford's Edsel Possessed: It looks like the futur e, but it doesn't look good.
Kriston Capp s, The American Proppect, 6 March 2009
Of course it is possible to create breath taking and inspiring "green architecture", although a large majority of green buildings are aesthetically unpleasant .
the exceptions are
Renzo Piano's : California Academy of science
Photo: © Tim Griffith.
Kriston Capp s, The American Proppect, 6 March 2009
Of course it is possible to create breath taking and inspiring "green architecture", although a large majority of green buildings are aesthetically unpleasant .
the exceptions are
Renzo Piano's : California Academy of science
Photo: © NeilCathlen McGuigan said in Newsweek: "the notion that virtue makes for better design."
Just because these designs are sustainable it doesn't mean that aesthetic is not an issue to consider. As humans are drawn to beauty, beautiful design lasts. As no matter how functional or sustainable the architecture is, if it lacks beauty it will more likely be unloved sooner.
Therefore it brings to the discussion about a stereotype "Green Aesthetic."
Green Aesthetic is basically the image we get from stereotypical green buildings. Exposed Bricks, Square, Small insulated windows and Colorful, and forceful addition parts of windmill, solar panels on the roof. It only seems the only green design that is easy on the eye are the green vegetation on the roofs of buildings.
" Green regulations come with restrictions. For energy efficiency, a building is better designed as a compact box than as an irregular shape. A facade ideally has about 35 percent of its window openings regularly distributed over the whole building to allow for maximum natural light while reducing heat loss."
The dutch governmental Institution "Agentschap NL' refers in its comments to the energy efficienct regulation 'EPN' (Engergie Prestatie Borm) to a standard reference office building that fullfills ithe regulations. http://senternovem.nl/epn.
"Utopias of abundance " & "Utopias of sufficiency"
Ebenzer Howards's Garden Cities:
Sir Ebenezer Howard (29 January 1850[1]– May 1, 1928[2]) is known for his publication Garden Cities of To-morrow (1898), the description of a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature. The publication resulted in the founding of the garden city movement, that realized several Garden Cities in Great Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century. Billerica Garden Suburb,Inc.(1914), was the first housing in the United States on the Howard plan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Howard)
Ebenzer Howards proposed that all food sources should be close to the city, in order to avoid unnecessary long haul transportation of good.
People may say large cities create lots of pollution, although there is also another way of looking at Cities. They are compact, therefore it is easier for people to get around to their destination. Collective forms of Public Transports, carry large amounts of people at a single time. reducing private vehicles.
"Cities have to be seen as the potential solution, not the problem."
(further readings: Francis Bacon - New Atlantis. [now free on kindle for download.])
The idea and dreams of Utopias of sufficiency and abundance isn't the latest idea. In fact it has been dreamed of as long ago as 1516 expressed in Thomas Moore' s Utopia, on the best state of republic and on the new island of utopia. predecessors of all utopias.
"Green Hype"
According to the US Patent and Trademark office. "Green" was actually the single most trademarked term in 2007.
(Post temporary end at this chapter)
Sir Ebenezer Howard (29 January 1850[1]– May 1, 1928[2]) is known for his publication Garden Cities of To-morrow (1898), the description of a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature. The publication resulted in the founding of the garden city movement, that realized several Garden Cities in Great Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century. Billerica Garden Suburb,Inc.(1914), was the first housing in the United States on the Howard plan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Howard)
Ebenzer Howards proposed that all food sources should be close to the city, in order to avoid unnecessary long haul transportation of good.
People may say large cities create lots of pollution, although there is also another way of looking at Cities. They are compact, therefore it is easier for people to get around to their destination. Collective forms of Public Transports, carry large amounts of people at a single time. reducing private vehicles.
"Cities have to be seen as the potential solution, not the problem."
(further readings: Francis Bacon - New Atlantis. [now free on kindle for download.])
The idea and dreams of Utopias of sufficiency and abundance isn't the latest idea. In fact it has been dreamed of as long ago as 1516 expressed in Thomas Moore' s Utopia, on the best state of republic and on the new island of utopia. predecessors of all utopias.
"Green Hype"
According to the US Patent and Trademark office. "Green" was actually the single most trademarked term in 2007.
(Post temporary end at this chapter)
