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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... humans and nature is the concept of biophilia.7 Biophilia refers to humans' inherent affinity for the natural world, which is revealed in nine basic environmental values (discussed in chapter two). Developing these nine Introduction 3.
Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection Stephen R. Kellert. basic environmental values (discussed in ... value to nature, however, is a “weak” genetic tendency whose full and functional development depends on sufficient ...
... value nature (biophilia), and (3) vernacular design enables a satisfying connection to the places where people live, also a necessary condition of human well-being. The final chapter summarizes and integrates the various scientific ...
... values and, ultimately, of ethics. It confronts such basic considerations as how we think we fit into the natural ... value independent of human welfare. This broad utilitarian ethic recognizes and affirms how the natural world serves as ...
... value and security. The second story 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 ...
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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 |