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Urban Open Spaces. Strategies for sustainable design.
The first moment of reflection and debate needs to clarify on the meaning of the terms through which it is possible to identify the fields of research and their interrelations: landscape, environment and sustainability. Dealing with the first of them, the definition was clearly illustrated within the European Landscape Convention, despite the different meanings related to the linguistic differences. In many languages, instead, the origins of the term Environment evokes the idea of circularity. The environment itself represents, indeed, what an organism is surrounded and dealing with. The concept of sustainability is specifically linked with the skills of the ecology science, and expresses the main characteristic of an ecosystem: keeping alive the biodiversity and all of its ecological processes. Practically, it is possible to define a process as a sustainable one if it able to exploit the natural resources, which are eventually naturally renewed. As a consequence, the community must control the consumption of the resources within the sustainable development. The relationship landscape environment is narrowly intertwined and interrelated. Concerning the architectural design, it can be argued that in the latest years the ecological principles for the sustainable development got familiar with the green building asset. The main goal, for both the design and the construction process, dealt with the energetic containment in particular, and more generally with the limitation on the environmental impacts. Even if, it is necessary to be aware that this is no longer possible nowadays. In fact, it’s essential redirect towards wider and detailed cultural and scientific fields; moreover it is not even longer possible to conceive working only on the building itself. It could be necessary moving from the building to the whole city perspective, gathering the entire urban landscape. It’s the right time. The city is going through a period of both crisis and evolution, sometimes involving severe, random and sudden transformation ...
Urban Open Spaces. Strategies for sustainable design.
The first moment of reflection and debate needs to clarify on the meaning of the terms through which it is possible to identify the fields of research and their interrelations: landscape, environment and sustainability. Dealing with the first of them, the definition was clearly illustrated within the European Landscape Convention, despite the different meanings related to the linguistic differences. In many languages, instead, the origins of the term Environment evokes the idea of circularity. The environment itself represents, indeed, what an organism is surrounded and dealing with. The concept of sustainability is specifically linked with the skills of the ecology science, and expresses the main characteristic of an ecosystem: keeping alive the biodiversity and all of its ecological processes. Practically, it is possible to define a process as a sustainable one if it able to exploit the natural resources, which are eventually naturally renewed. As a consequence, the community must control the consumption of the resources within the sustainable development. The relationship landscape environment is narrowly intertwined and interrelated. Concerning the architectural design, it can be argued that in the latest years the ecological principles for the sustainable development got familiar with the green building asset. The main goal, for both the design and the construction process, dealt with the energetic containment in particular, and more generally with the limitation on the environmental impacts. Even if, it is necessary to be aware that this is no longer possible nowadays. In fact, it’s essential redirect towards wider and detailed cultural and scientific fields; moreover it is not even longer possible to conceive working only on the building itself. It could be necessary moving from the building to the whole city perspective, gathering the entire urban landscape. It’s the right time. The city is going through a period of both crisis and evolution, sometimes involving severe, random and sudden transformation ...
Urban Open Spaces. Strategies for sustainable design.
2015-01-01
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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