Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature ConnectionIsland Press, 26 сент. 2012 г. - Всего страниц: 264 Sustainable design has made great strides in recent years; unfortunately, it still falls short of fully integrating nature into our built environment. Through a groundbreaking new paradigm of "restorative environmental design," award-winning author Stephen R. Kellert proposes a new architectural model of sustainability. In Building For Life, Kellert examines the fundamental interconnectedness of people and nature, and how the loss of this connection results in a diminished quality of life. This thoughtful new work illustrates how architects and designers can use simple methods to address our innate needs for contact with nature. Through the use of natural lighting, ventilation, and materials, as well as more unexpected methodologies-the use of metaphor, perspective, enticement, and symbol-architects can greatly enhance our daily lives. These design techniques foster intellectual development, relaxation, and physical and emotional well-being. In the works of architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Cesar Pelli, Norman Foster, and Michael Hopkins, Kellert sees the success of these strategies and presents models for moving forward. Ultimately, Kellert views our fractured relationship with nature as a design problem rather than an unavoidable aspect of modern life, and he proposes many practical and creative solutions for cultivating a more rewarding experience of nature in our built environment. |
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... Childhood Development 4 Harmonizing the Natural and Human Built Environments 5 Biophilic Design 6 Ethics of Sustainability Narrative Epilogue One: Of Forests and the Sea—1955: Middle Childhood Two: From Apple Orchards to Shopping Malls ...
... childhood is considered as the time when experiencing nature is most essential to human physical and mental maturation, even for a species capable of lifelong learning. Unfortunately, for both children and adults an impoverished natural ...
... childhood.8 Young people need to engage the natural world repeatedly and in multiple ways to mature effectively. Yet, for many children as well as for adults, modern society has produced an increasingly compromised and degraded natural ...
... addressing the ethics of sustainable development. It examines how the connection between human and natural systems—particularly this connection's importance during the childhood years and the challenge of restoring Introduction 5.
... childhood years and the challenge of restoring beneficial connections between the natural and human built environments through deliberate design—is fundamentally an issue of values and, ultimately, of ethics. It confronts such basic ...
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Nature and Childhood Development | 63 |
Harmonizing the Natural and Human Build Environments | 90 |
Biophilic Design | 123 |
Ethics of Sustainablilty | 178 |
Narrative Epilogue | 185 |
Notes | 219 |
Index | 243 |