A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A useful inroad to the formulation of a non‐anthropocentric architecture involves the integration of provisions for planned biodiversity that can help sustain an associated biodiversity and, in turn, sustain the freely evolving one. The involved conceptualisation, analysis, evaluation and incorporation of the understandings that arise from urban ecology research into urban design can either develop along an anthropocentric trajectory or along a non‐anthropocentric one – the latter might constitute a powerful alternative. Experiments on an urban and regional scale are risky in that the result can be disastrous on a large scale, while experimentation towards multispecies environments on the scale of one or a few buildings may equally go wrong but might contain the consequences of potentially negative outcomes. Experiments geared towards non‐anthropocentric architectures could therefore be locally conducted on a building scale and carefully increased in size for as long as the observed results are deemed positive.
A useful inroad to the formulation of a non‐anthropocentric architecture involves the integration of provisions for planned biodiversity that can help sustain an associated biodiversity and, in turn, sustain the freely evolving one. The involved conceptualisation, analysis, evaluation and incorporation of the understandings that arise from urban ecology research into urban design can either develop along an anthropocentric trajectory or along a non‐anthropocentric one – the latter might constitute a powerful alternative. Experiments on an urban and regional scale are risky in that the result can be disastrous on a large scale, while experimentation towards multispecies environments on the scale of one or a few buildings may equally go wrong but might contain the consequences of potentially negative outcomes. Experiments geared towards non‐anthropocentric architectures could therefore be locally conducted on a building scale and carefully increased in size for as long as the observed results are deemed positive.
Non‐Anthropocentric Architectures
Hensel, Michael (author)
2013-06-10
7 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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