Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Ecological reflections in unbounded architecture
For many years, the environmental effort in Scandinavian residential building has taken the form of construction-related improvements and technical renewal. For example, the standard in insulation has been improved and, to an increasing extent, the supply of energy is being covered by alternative energy sources. However, 'green' accounts reveal that the building and its environmental standards are not the most important factors in the residence's consumption of resources. The most crucial factors are the residents and their behaviour. Resource consumption in the residence is thus entirely dependent on the residents' habits, on their behaviour and life style. In the final analysis, it is our culture that becomes the topic for debate, as a direct consequence of environmental problems. Question marks are being placed alongside the consumption society and concomitantly alongside the entire occidental culture. The upshot of this is that, sooner or later, environmental problems will eventually come to influence the architectonic design, which reflects the culture and the societal values from which such modelling originates. The environmentally oriented work can, in this way, be discussed in an architectonic context. This is the aim of the present paper: to describe urban ecological endeavours in a wide cultural perspective. This ought to make it possible to look at this work in conjunction with current tendencies in contemporary design. In order to understand the present day, however, it is necessary to start at some distance from it - with the Renaissance.
Ecological reflections in unbounded architecture
For many years, the environmental effort in Scandinavian residential building has taken the form of construction-related improvements and technical renewal. For example, the standard in insulation has been improved and, to an increasing extent, the supply of energy is being covered by alternative energy sources. However, 'green' accounts reveal that the building and its environmental standards are not the most important factors in the residence's consumption of resources. The most crucial factors are the residents and their behaviour. Resource consumption in the residence is thus entirely dependent on the residents' habits, on their behaviour and life style. In the final analysis, it is our culture that becomes the topic for debate, as a direct consequence of environmental problems. Question marks are being placed alongside the consumption society and concomitantly alongside the entire occidental culture. The upshot of this is that, sooner or later, environmental problems will eventually come to influence the architectonic design, which reflects the culture and the societal values from which such modelling originates. The environmentally oriented work can, in this way, be discussed in an architectonic context. This is the aim of the present paper: to describe urban ecological endeavours in a wide cultural perspective. This ought to make it possible to look at this work in conjunction with current tendencies in contemporary design. In order to understand the present day, however, it is necessary to start at some distance from it - with the Renaissance.
Ecological reflections in unbounded architecture
Bech-Danielsen, Claus (Autor:in)
The Journal of Architecture ; 8 ; 321-336
01.01.2003
16 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
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