Regreening Nature: Turning negative externalities into oportunities

Regreening Nature: Turning negative externalities into oportunities

Jacome Polit, C.D.

Snijders, A. (mentor)
Meijs, M. (mentor)
Broesma, S. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Architectural Engineering and Technology

Architectural Engineering

2014-06-10

As a general rule, environmental design and engineering, instead of taking part from an early design stage, usually remains as a question of post-design optimization. A way to solve such problem may be found in looking at nature and working architecture along with ecology, where iteratively the design process involves varied relations and mutual modulation between natural forms, natural processes, and natural ecosystems, rooted in the intuitive creative process of architecture, where any result will be measured against life’s principles. The graduation project approaches a few biological examples and, by an exercise of abstraction, converts forms, processes, strategies and systems into a building. The development and approach of the method to propose it as an integral practice for architectural design is presented during the elaboration of the graduation project, where the insertion of a building in a highly sensible zone like the Amazonian rainforest is achieved successfully by helping restore anthropogenic degraded zones, instead of further depleting.

biomimicry
ecosystem
climate design
Amazon Rainforest

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2014-06-11

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2014 Jacome Polit, C.D.