Breathe: Investigations into Our Environmentally Entangled Future, Klaus Loenhart

Автор: Jankovic
Название: Designing Zero Carbon Buildings Using Dynamic Simulation Methods
ISBN: 1138658316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138658318
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 50010.00 T
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Описание: This considerably expanded Second Edition includes new advanced topics on multi-objective optimisation; reverse modelling; reduction of the simulation performance gap; predictive control; nature-inspired emergent simulation leading to sketches that become `alive`; and on an alternative economics for achieving the sustainability paradigm.

Автор: Tony Fry
Название: Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice
ISBN: 1350089958 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350089952
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Цена: 31670.00 T
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Описание: Sustainability is now a buzzword both among professionals and scholars. However, though climate change and resource depletion are now widely recognized by business as major challenges, and while new practices like 'green design' have emerged, efforts towards change remain weak and fragmented. Exposing these limitations, Design Futuring systematically presents ideas and methods for Design as an expanded ethical and professional practice. Design Futuring argues that responding to ethical, political, social and ecological concerns now requires a new type of practice that recognizes design's importance in overcoming a world made unsustainable. Illustrated throughout with international case material, Design Futuring presents the author's ground-breaking ideas in a coherent framework, focusing specifically on the ways in which concerns for ethics and sustainability can change the practice of Design for the twenty-first century. Design Futuring - a pathfinding text for the new era - extends far beyond Design courses and professional practice, and will also be invaluable to students and practitioners of Architecture, the Creative Arts, Business and Management.

Автор: Armstrong, Rachel
Название: Soft living architecture
ISBN: 1350011355 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350011359
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Soft Living Architecture explores the invention of new architectures based on living processes. It crafts a unique intersection between two fast-developing disciplines: biomimicry and biodesign in architecture, and bioinformatics and natural computing in the natural sciences.

This is the first book to examine both the theory and methodology of architecture and design working directly with the natural world. It explores a range of approaches from the use of life-like systems in building design to the employment of actual growing and living cell and tissue cultures as architectural materials - creating architecture that can change, learn and grow with us. The use of 'living architecture' is cutting-edge and speculative, yet it is also inspiring a growing number of designers worldwide to adopt alternative perspectives on sustainability and environmental design. The book examines the ethical and theoretical issues arising alongside case-studies of experimental practice, to explore what we mean by 'natural' in the Anthropocene, and raise deep questions about the nature of design and the design of nature.

This provocative and at times controversial book shows why it will become ever more necessary to embrace living processes in architecture if we are to thrive in a sustainable future.