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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... occurs in the early 1970s, a time of late adolescence marked by struggle and turmoil. The context is suburban, a housing development in a rapidly expanding town where roads are designed to accommodate traffic rather than pedestrians and ...
... occurred, particularly of how the experience of nature fosters human physical and mental well-being, and even how beneficial human actions can actually enhance the functioning of natural systems (see Figure 1). This chapter explores the ...
... occurs in our routine, everyday lives. All such experiences of the nonhuman world relate if they occur regularly and affect human wellbeing. What about contact with relatively undisturbed natural systems or even wilderness settings ...
... occurs along two broad dimensions. First, people vary in their degree of closeness to nature, ranging from—at one end of the axis—highly familiar settings and domesticated animals, such as pet animals and backyard gardens, to—at the ...
... occurred among the students who walked in the park. By contrast, significantly lower levels of emotional and intellectual restoration occurred among the “urban activity” and “indoor activity” groups. Several other studies have reported ...
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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 |