Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic
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Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic

A New Look at Design and Resilient Urbanism

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Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic

A New Look at Design and Resilient Urbanism

About this book

Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest over many other types of terrain is well documented. This book re-imagines architecture and urbanism by allowing the forest to be a prominent consideration in the language of design, thus recognizing the forest as essential rather than just incidental to human well-being. In Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic, forest is a large-scale urban construct that is far more extensive and nuanced than trees and shrubbery. The forest aesthetic opens designers to the forest as a model for an urban architecture of permeable floors, protective canopies, connected food chains, beneficial decomposition, and resilient ecologies. Much can be learned about these features of the forest from the natural sciences; however, when they are given due consideration technically and metaphorically in the design of urban habitat, the places in which humans live become living forests.

What is present here in Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic is both a review of many ingenious ways in which the forest aesthetic has already been expressed in design and urbanism, and an encouragement to further use the forest aesthetic in design language and design outcomes. Case study projects featured include the Chilotan building craft of Southern Chile, the yaki sugi of Japan, the Biltmore Forest in the Southeastern United States, the Australian capital city Canberra, Bosco Verticale in Milan, Italy, the Beijing Olympic Forest Park in China, and more.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781138837737
eBook ISBN
9781317562993
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General
INDEX
Note: Page numbers in italic refer to figures.
acrylic trees, Maryland, US 89, 93, 100, 101, 102, 103
aesthetics 1, 8, 40, 41, 192, 236, 253
Afterburn architectural installation 69, 69, 70, 71, 73, 73, 77–78, 78, 80
agriculture 37, 46, 166, 205
Allen, S. 5
allmenningsskogene (everyman’s forest), Norway 130–131
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (Brautigan, 1968) 174
Amsterdam, Netherlands 211, 212, 215, 217, 218
wooden piles 213, 214
animation, Maryland, US 94, 94, 96, 97, 97, 98, 99, 99–100
Anzac Parade, Canberra, Australia 179, 180
arboriculture 191, 192, 193
Archigram Group 173, 174
architecture 1, 2, 8, 11, 224, 250
Atwood, M. 134
Back Bay Fens plan, Boston, Massachusetts, US (1887) 8, 9
balloon framing 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 40
Barn Tower, Harvard Forest, Massachusetts, US 161
Beijing, China 114, 115, 116, 118
Olympic Forest Park 11, 13, 114, 115, 116, 117, 117–118, 118, 119, 120
Olympic Green 114, 115
Beirut Souks competition see Souks of Beirut Competition (1994)
Benjamin, D. 81, 82
Biltmore Forest, Asheville, North Carolina, US 11, 12, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146
Forest Fair 142, 143, 144, 145, 146
BioMilano, Milan, Italy 224, 225, 226, 227, 229
Boeri, S. 224, 236
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. INTRODUCTION
  10. I BUILT IN WOOD
  11. II DECOMPOSITION
  12. III COLLECTIVE SPACE IN A FIELD
  13. IV FORESTRY CULTURES
  14. V TECHNOLOGY AND THE FOREST ARCHIVE
  15. VI TREED INFRASTRUCTURE
  16. VII HUMAN FOREST BIOSYSTEMS
  17. Image Credits
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index