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Systems & Flows_SO 2_Q4_HC 6_Aesthetics of sustainable Architecture
(Inspired by book of
Sang Lee
)
Current lack of Aesthetics in sustainability
Peter Eisenmann
Some of the most sustainable buildings (LEED) are depressing/ugly (small windows etc.) and don't add cultural/architectural value, while perhaps being ecological
Wolf Prix
Sustainability needs meaningfulness and is therefore not possible to generate "aesthetics"
There is no form of aesthetics of sustainability as that of modernis architecture
The disciplines are fragmented, sustainabillity needs a integral approach (social/people, materials, strength/longevity, flexibility of building, biological etc.)
Rem Koolhaas
I did not assume any academic person ask a architecture to participate to ecological urbanism, we collectively produce unsustainable buildings
Architecture (& buidling) is rarely sustainable
We build entire cities in desserts, venues for 1 event
Sustainable certifications (LEED & BREEAM)
Beauty is excluded (does it fit in the existing area?), while important to discuss for acceptance (although subjective)
VN Sustainable definition & Architecture
Sustainable development = development that meets the need of the present without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their own needs.
Architecture:
Sustainability has become a issue, because of new legalities (NL: wettigheid), caused by building regulations
Sustainability in architecture: first enthousias, but in reality becomes something you have to fink of at the end of the proces for mandatory reasons
(act according to the rules): how sustainable is it really? -> not really
The disciplines needs to be more integrated/connected
Sotution: HowDoYouLandscape - Daniel Jauslin
Since the first cities, we have always seperated nature & culture: architecture/cities
Vitruvius: started to construct structures and so passed from barbarous lifestyle to civilization & refinement
Dutch planning example: building below sea level: for flood safety: just heighten the site before building, destroying/denying existing the (ecological) situation
By taking the concept of architecture of landscape, solving the oppositions between
nature<->culture & sustainability <-> architecture
Landscape is an aesthetic mediation between the natural & artificial world
(landscape = human interface with nature)
Aesthetics & planned, but is also nature: combined
Lines between architecture & landscape are already blurring, but on in an integrated way
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NEW DESIGN APPROACH, in which aesthetics and sustainability are the core of the proces
Start with the location, not with buildings/program
Anamnesis (history)
The landscape as a Palimpsest of layers of the historic events (cultrual, infrastructural & geological
Aldo Rossi - Palimpsest (written over & over), richness of layers: like a collage of different periods/styles (facist, baroque & classical architecture)
Development processes
Stop thinking in projects, but see the development of sites as a process (
incompleteness of design
/ never finished), takes time to develop in a certain way)
Eisenhower
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Time & nature
Spatial sequencing (designing as moving through from eye perspective)
People go from A -> B, they never stop at 1 place (the parking lot of a landscape park to look from it from a distance and then leave again, no, people walk trough the park)
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Context
dense functional, visual & spatial relations that are connected to a landscape (place making: create a context, not react to one)
Landscape architects: create context out of the various elements (form & context) of a place, rather than form follows function
When designing: side effects (things change, new context/situation), than reaction on that, making new contexts)
Collin Rowe - collage city (modernist = state of placelessness: call for context)
All the previous analyses, methods, paradigms and design strategies all excude 1 word: aesthetics
Sauerbruch & Hutton
Relationship between buidlings and longevity
What enhances a buildings longevity?
When it becomes part of people's life stories; positively: LOVE): building as a narrative (represents . . .)
Architecture represents a certain time view (ideal, problems, fears etc.), so becomes part of culture
Amsterdam South
Judges subjectively, by triggering senses (feelings)
Don't fall into the trap of avand-garde (cliche & kitch: enstragned from the imaginations of normal people)
Hotel: painter lived in it (paid with her art), a lot of famous people came by, thereby the building became part of stories (memories), by this you can nudge (playfully make small adjustments to people's behaviour): speak to the people
imagination, or trigger seduction or advertising life styles
)
Being solid ->partially
What holds us back from meaningful, sustainable & aesthetic buildings
Base of eco-architecture lies in the movement of the 60'ies: apolitical loners (freaks: hippies):
vague notion of a pre-civilization state, myth of a better past
outdoor shower with rain water etc.
We only want sustainable if it can be normal
Technological progress
progress = optimizing systems, solution in tech (examples: design with climate)
Ralph Knowles
City based on optimal city (natural cooling/heating), but only focused on optimal working entity, not focused on people
Ron Arad
Technology + biomimicry (only form)
Does not directly lead to good/plesant cities
Better way (but all not subjective relationship based on senses): Victor Olgyay
Architecture of
passively desing (low-tech, without mechanical devices
) created environments
He saw that he needed several sciences: biology (comfort), meteorology (climatic conditions), engineers (rational solutions)
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Thomas Herzog: .
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Masdar City - Foster & Partners
Self sufficient energy: energy lab first, than energy production & then housing, companies with technologies can come to the city to make a pilot, that can be researched, investors can help develop the city
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Recycling centre: every buidling is build with re-using or recycling existing materials
Arabic city design (ventiflation etc).
Transportation
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Scientific & legal (certifications)
Sensual architecture
Sustainable architecture has to adress & stimulate the senses of its users (interaction):
experience/extra layer, like clothing as extention of human (body/life)
Material quality, lightning and color stimulate the senses.
The facade acts as mediator or external & internal climate and is adapable (like a layered zone between inside & outside: like clothing)
