Ecological Urban Architecture: Qualitative Approaches to Sustainability

Thomas Schröpfer

Published by Birkhäuser 2012

Ecological Urban Architecture

Qualitative Approaches to Sustainability

Thomas Schröpfer

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783034611756

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About this book

Architectural design responses to sustainable city challenges

The goal of advancing eco cities often remains confined to political or technological issues. This book establishes a focus on architectural and infrastructural design approaches to sustainable urban development.

Taking as a basis the critical assessment of the five prototypical eco cities of Vauban/Freiburg, solarCity/Linz, Valdespartera, Sarriguren/Pamplona und Bo01/Malmø., the book identifies fields in which architectural and urban designers can use their creative skills and methods to achieve sustainable results on the urban scale.

The themes of Materialize, Mobilize, Simulate and Transform highlight the shift from the manipulation of quantitative variables to interactive relationships effecting qualitative outcomes in design. For example, Materialize explores the potential of eco-design beyond the traditional palette of materials to show how spatial boundaries can be re-imagined as gradients of conditioned versus unconditioned space, working with climatic conditions rather than material boundaries to help generate new forms of urban architecture.

Hands-on design approaches to the future of cities
Puts to readers some of the world’s best expertise on the field
Follows the volume “Material Design” by the same author

Author / Editor information

Thomas Schröpfer is Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Contributions by experts in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, engineering and design theory, among them Achim Menges of Stuttgart University Institute for Computational Design, Federico Parolotto of Mobility in Chain, Eduardo Rico of Groundlab London, Sheila Kennedy of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Matthias Sauerbruch of Sauerbruch Hutton, provide in-depth information on the complexity of eco-design in urban environments and emphasize the need for new sensibilities in disciplinary and trans-disciplinary thinking processes.

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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Pages
- Main content: 208
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 285

eBook

Published: December 13, 2012
ISBN: 9783034611756

Hardcover

Published: September 26, 2012
ISBN: 9783034608008