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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... sense that the natural world is far more connected to the quality of their lives than is revealed through the narrow metrics of material production and modern economics. In poll after poll in the United States and in other countries ...
... sense, the natural world often seems neither necessary nor germane to the functioning of a modern urban society. Despite the evident connections, contemporary society still fails to recognize and defend the importance of healthy and ...
... sense of love and beauty, and reverent of creation. The book addresses many complicated aspects of the connection between nature and humanity throughout the human life cycle and how we may design, develop, and sustain this relationship ...
... sense of responsibility for the welfare of humankind and the earth, we can create new environments that are ecologically sound, aesthetically satisfying, economically rewarding, and favorable to the continued growth of civilization. But ...
... sense of “routine, usual, or commonly encountered.”2 Our primary focus is how the experience of nature as a normal aspect of people's everyday lives at home, work, or play, or in their neighborhoods and communiW ties, affects their ...
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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 |