Garden City: Supergreen Buildings, Urban Skyscapes And The New Planted Space
A spectacular global survey of some of the world's most inventive buildings, increasingly relevant in the face of climate change, uniting architecture and horticulture into a sustainable whole.
How can our urban jungles be transformed into forests of skyscrapers that help our cities provide new forms of sustenance, from urban farms to buildings that breathe? The topic is increasingly in the public eye and the answer is already emerging on our streets. Garden City captures the growing global movement among contemporary architects for the biodesign of buildings that are less structure and facade, more living entities, capable of being ecologically autonomous, horticulturally productive, and at the same time pleasing to the eye and relevant to our everyday lifestyle.
Presented here are over 100 (mostly completed) projects, a range of life-affirming design ideas that can be applied to new buildings and those in need of rehabilitation. From offices that incorporate urban farms and exchange human-produced CO2 for plant-produced food and oxygen, to lightweight systems for growing gardens on vertical surfaces; from tree houses the size of city blocks to civic buildings that connect to existing water management systems, there are rich and often unexpected ideas for every designer. The future of our urban architecture is biologically alert, naturally self-sustaining and alive. Garden City is the visual resource that charts this frontier of new urban architecture.
A spectacular global survey of some of the world's most inventive buildings, increasingly relevant in the face of climate change, uniting architecture and horticulture into a sustainable whole.
How can our urban jungles be transformed into forests of skyscrapers that help our cities provide new forms of sustenance, from urban farms to buildings that breathe? The topic is increasingly in the public eye and the answer is already emerging on our streets. Garden City captures the growing global movement among contemporary architects for the biodesign of buildings that are less structure and facade, more living entities, capable of being ecologically autonomous, horticulturally productive, and at the same time pleasing to the eye and relevant to our everyday lifestyle.
Presented here are over 100 (mostly completed) projects, a range of life-affirming design ideas that can be applied to new buildings and those in need of rehabilitation. From offices that incorporate urban farms and exchange human-produced CO2 for plant-produced food and oxygen, to lightweight systems for growing gardens on vertical surfaces; from tree houses the size of city blocks to civic buildings that connect to existing water management systems, there are rich and often unexpected ideas for every designer. The future of our urban architecture is biologically alert, naturally self-sustaining and alive. Garden City is the visual resource that charts this frontier of new urban architecture.
55.00 EUR
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Garden City: Supergreen Buildings, Urban Skyscapes And The New Planted Space
55.00 EUR
A spectacular global survey of some of the world's most inventive buildings, increasingly relevant in the face of climate change, uniting architecture and horticulture into a sustainable whole.
How can our urban jungles be transformed into forests of skyscrapers that help our cities provide new forms of sustenance, from urban farms to buildings that breathe? The topic is increasingly in the public eye and the answer is already emerging on our streets. Garden City captures the growing global movement among contemporary architects for the biodesign of buildings that are less structure and facade, more living entities, capable of being ecologically autonomous, horticulturally productive, and at the same time pleasing to the eye and relevant to our everyday lifestyle.
Presented here are over 100 (mostly completed) projects, a range of life-affirming design ideas that can be applied to new buildings and those in need of rehabilitation. From offices that incorporate urban farms and exchange human-produced CO2 for plant-produced food and oxygen, to lightweight systems for growing gardens on vertical surfaces; from tree houses the size of city blocks to civic buildings that connect to existing water management systems, there are rich and often unexpected ideas for every designer. The future of our urban architecture is biologically alert, naturally self-sustaining and alive. Garden City is the visual resource that charts this frontier of new urban architecture.
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