Changing Public Realm and Urban Green: The New Interior Landscape

Changing Public Realm and Urban Green: The New Interior Landscape

Komossa, S.
Marzot, N.

Architecture and The Built Environment

Architecture

2012-10-16

The transformation of the great Western cities is an on-going process. It has become evident over the last decades that cities need to transform into compact, interrelated and creative artefacts. Within this process the nature of natural and artificial urban green,1 in other words the verdure, is already changing today in both qualitative and quantitative terms. New concepts of verdure, may they be natural or artificial, on the scale of a building or of the urban block, are introduced, not only as a means to save natural resources, as a response to the increasing demand of sustainability, but also simply to improve the quality of everyday life in urban settings. Moreover, these concepts offer the possibility to meet the need for a new green public realm caused by a shifting focus due to rearrangements in the relation between working, dwelling and leisure, including new patterns of everyday life and working practises of urban citizens. Within this process of urban ‘greenification’ we would like to dwell on a specific phenomenon: the architectural design of artificial urban green and interior landscapes.

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IOS Press, Delft University Press

2014-10-16

9781614993650

Proceedings of the EAAE/ISUF International Conference New Urban Configurations, Delft, The Netherlands, 16-19 October 2012

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