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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... offers far fewer opportunities to experience satisfying contact with nature as an integral part of ordinary life.9 The many symptoms of this declining condition include extensive air and water pollution, fragmented landscapes ...
... offering a chance for personal and environmental redemption. The epilogue's final story jumps generations ahead to 2030 and then to 2055, a time of continuing uncertainty but also of an emerging new covenant of compatible relation ...
... offered by three well-known outdoor organizations—Outward Bound, the National Outdoor Leadership School, and the Student Conservation Association.20 This study, which involved more than eight hundred participants representing all ...
... offered many stimulating, exciting, joyful places for me to play with friends. We could walk out our back doors into greenbelts full of all kinds of trees to climb with fruit to eat and gardens with vegetables to nibble on. Even when we ...
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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 |