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Nature designs with purpose - An art modern architecture has forgotten. The pictures below show how Biotonomy's designers use Nature's design principles to develop Autonomous Buildings and Vertical ecosystems. The Monstera plant features a unique design element that develops holes in its leaves, referred to as fenestration in biology. Fenestration refers to small openings or pores in various structures or tissues within organisms. Architects can use the principles of fenestration to improve energy efficiency and create thriving Vertical Ecosystems. For the Monstera plant, the fenestrations (the openings in the leaves) serve three fundamental functions: 1 - Light Distribution: The openings allow sunlight to pass down to plants beneath, ensuring even the smallest plants receive light. 2 - Wind Resistance: The openings enable wind to pass through, preventing the plant from being uprooted during storms, supporting its growth in windy conditions. 3 - Sunlight Capture: As a Monstera leaf matures and develops more holes, it increases its surface area for photosynthesis without becoming more exposed to damage, an intelligent adaptation for thriving in its habitat. The Monstera's design principles - sharing light, resisting wind, and maximizing sunlight absorption - make it an excellent use for developing thriving Vertical Ecosystems and developing Nature based heating systems in buildings. By passing the light from the second floor to the first floor, one can charge building components with heat during warmer seasons and reuse the energy during colder seasons. By paying attention and understanding Nature's design language, we can transform our buildings and cities to become resilient and intelligent. Want to learn more? Sign up to our upcoming online Academy on our website, see the link in bio BIOTONOMY #biotonomy #biomimicry #naturebasedsolutions #puertorico

Nature designs with purpose - An art modern architecture has forgotten. The pictures below show how Biotonomy's designers use Nature's design principles to develop Autonomous Buildings and Vertical ecosystems.   The Monstera plant features a unique design element that develops holes in its leaves, referred to as fenestrations in biology. Fenestration refers to small openings or pores in various structures or tissues within organisms. Architects can use the principles of fenestrations to improve energy efficiency and create thriving Vertical Ecosystems. For the Monstera plant, the fenestrations (the openings in the leaves) serve three fundamental functions: 1 - Light Distribution: The openings allow sunlight to pass down to plants beneath, ensuring even the smallest plants receive light. 2 - Wind Resistance: The openings enable wind to pass through, preventing the plant from being uprooted during storms, supporting its growth in windy conditions. 3 - Sunlight Capture: As a Monstera leaf matures and develops more holes, it increases its surface area for photosynthesis without becoming more exposed to damage, an intelligent adaptation for thriving in its habitat. The Monstera's design principles - sharing light, resisting wind, and maximizing sunlight absorption - make it an excellent use for developing thriving Vertical Ecosystems and developing Nature based heating systems in buildings. By passing the light from the second floor to the first floor, one can charge building components with heat during warmer seasons and reuse the energy during colder seasons. By paying attention and understanding Nature's design language, we can transform our buildings and cities to become resilient and intelligent. Want to learn more? Sign up to our upcoming online Academy on our website, see the link in bio #biotonomy #biomimicry #naturebasedsolutions

Nature designs with purpose - An art modern architecture has forgotten. The pictures below show how we at BIOTONOMY use Nature's design principles to develop Autonomous Buildings and Vertical ecosystems.   The Monstera plant features a unique design element that develops holes in its leaves, referred to as fenestrations in biology. Fenestration refers to small openings or pores in various structures or tissues within organisms. Architects can use the principles of fenestrations to improve energy efficiency and create thriving Vertical Ecosystems. For the Monstera plant, the fenestrations (the openings in the leaves) serve three fundamental functions: 1 - Light Distribution: The openings allow sunlight to pass down to plants beneath, ensuring even the smallest plants receive light. 2 - Wind Resistance: The openings enable wind to pass through, preventing the plant from being uprooted during storms, supporting its growth in windy conditions. 3 - Sunlight Capture: As a Monstera leaf matures and develops more holes, it increases its surface area for photosynthesis without becoming more exposed to damage, an intelligent adaptation for thriving in its habitat. The Monstera's design principles - sharing light, resisting wind, and maximizing sunlight absorption - make it an excellent use for developing thriving Vertical Ecosystems and developing Nature based heating systems in buildings. By passing the light from the second floor to the first floor, one can charge building components with heat during warmer seasons and reuse the energy during colder seasons. By paying attention and understanding Nature's design language, we can transform our buildings and cities to become resilient and intelligent. Want to learn more? Sign up to our upcoming online Academy on our website, see the link in bio of BIOTONOMY #biotonomy #biomimicry #naturebasedsolutions

Sediments: Performative Ecologies | Architecture Thesis on Regenerative Architecture ‘Sediments: Performative Ecologies’ is an architecture thesis on regenerative architecture by Valentina Aguilar from the Facultad de Arquitectura y Diseño - Universidad de los Andes that offers an architectural solution to the fragmented landscapes in Honda, Colombia, which are shaped by sediments due to local ecologies and weather. The project proposes a Fishing Vertical Bio-Filter Tower, aiming to preserve regional knowledge and restore ecosystems by integrating ecology and history. The project evolves based on sediment movements, river flows, rainfall, and sun exposure. To submit your academic project for publication at ArchiDiaries login to ArchiDiaries page #Architecture #RegenerativeArchitecture #IndustrialArchitecture #ArchitectureThesis #SustainableArchitecture #TropicalArchitecture #FacultaddeArquitecturayDiseñoUniversidaddelosAndes #Bogota #colombia

Green #architecture using #AI "ecological programming" interprets environmental conditions to design buildings that support healthy urban #ecosystems and #biodiversity. #Futurist #Future #Futurism #Futurology #Design #UrbanPlanning #Cities #Buildings #Nature

I am so happy to announce that we have received a very prestigious grant from the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme by The British Museum for our research project - Documentation of building crafts in Kath-Khuni temple architecture of Western Himalayas. There were more than 140 applications; only a handful were chosen, and we are part of it. The EMKP grants support the documentation of threatened and in danger of disappearing material knowledge systems. They also provide free access by stewarding that knowledge in an open-access digital repository dedicated to its preservation. The Programme was established with funding from the Arcadia fund and is hosted by the Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the British Museum. The project aims to document the building crafts, specifically in kath-khuni construction, employed in temple architecture in the Western Himalayas. Kath-khuni temples are characterised by three distinct types of building crafts: wood, stone, and metal crafts. The unique amalgamation of these crafts combined with their stylistic uniqueness renders these temples exceptional in the broader context of temple architecture in South Asia. This is also one of the few vernacular earthquake-resistant building techniques. The knowledge and construction process of kath-khuni temples is facing a threat due to limited research, the declining number of craft practitioners, and climate change. Thus, it has become crucial and opportune to document these temples and the knowledge systems associated with their making and use. The proposed project aims to undertake documentation based on both fieldwork and archival research. The archival research is based on the meticulous drawings of John Nankivell, a British artist, and the archives of Penelope Chetwode, a travel writer. Together, they travelled in the Western Himalayas in the 1970s and documented temples, which provided an insight into the architecture and landscape of the time. Their documentation material is in various archival sources and will be studied to develop further research on the temple architecture in the Western Himalayas. The fieldwork will focus on three main activities: Visual mapping and documentation of the temples, documentation of building crafts used in the making of the temples, and anthropological analysis of the making and practices of use of the temples. #EMKP, #KathkhuniArchitecture, #HimachalPradesh Principal Investigator: jay thakkar Collaborators: Michael Lidgley, Rahul Bhushan, Sonali Gupta Research Assistant: Vedanshi Sarda Project Coordinator Mansi Sathyanarayan Rao Location of Research:  Himachal Pradesh, India Host Institution: The South Asian Decorative Arts & Crafts Collection Trust (The SADACC Trust), UK https://lnkd.in/dQ__r6Hk

Landscape Architecture as re-enchantment with nature: Bridging divides in concepts & practice Where can we discuss, learn, and contemplate our dwindling contact with nature & engage in praxis as to its cause? Experts believe an incorrect view of nature informs spatial practice, with grave consequences... Our sense-awareness binds us to the wider non-human world. Constantly agitated by substantive reporting of the degree/scale, and pervasiveness ofbenvironmental problems around us, we perceive the inadequacy of conventional - conceptual & pragmatic - modes of thought & action that have caused the ecological crises that threaten us, pointing to gaps in the literature, and practice pertaining to urban space. According to Wolch[3] , “ our theories and practices of urbanization have contributed to disastrous ecological effects. Wildlife habitat is being destroyed at record rates as the urban front advances worldwide. . . Entire ecosystems and species are threatened, while individual animals crowded out of their homes (or dumped) must risk entry into areas in search of food or water, where they encounter people, vehicles and other dangers” Noting that the “the urban progressive environmental movement (has)avoided thinking about nonhumans, and (has) left the ethical as well as pragmatic ecological, politicaland economic questions of endangered species or animal welfare” Wolch calls into question existing ways of thinking through categories of animal and non-human nature which are made all the more piquant in light of recent research that shows animals capable of the many traits that were considered to distinguish the human species, and the consequent “disregard for non-human life” which is a marked feature of contemporary urban theory. thus, it is crucial to examine media representations and analyses & examine them from the viewpoint of current scientific understanding. Through praxis of the existing frameworks that guide spatial practice, one may explore boundary concepts of the human-nature construct; perceived and theorized separateness; and (dis-)embodied thinking, empathy and other forms of cognition and exception. Further, by reflecting on previously unassimilated (sources in) literatures, i argue for a broader concept of ‘nature’ and nuanced understanding of the potential of landscape architecture to bridge the essentialism, abstraction and utilitarian constructs that (artificially) separate the human and non-human natures. We need to examine concepts and practices that essentialize the idea human-nature separateness, & consider the alternative ways in which the construction has been weakened in light of contemporary thinking. Landscape architecture can be seen as a set of understandings and practices that reimagine a a more-than-human world with human- and animal- subjectivities, in order to generate sets of spatial practices and concepts that allow coexistence. 1 & 2. People's Resource Center 3 Jennifer Wolch in Zoopolis, 1994

Today, we celebrate nature and our home, the earth. A short read from our book, Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture https://lnkd.in/echvJThq   1 Topology—Design in Light of Place Christian Norberg-Shultz (1926–2000) describes site via its genius loci, or the pervading tone or mood of a place’s environment—its atmosphere. When analyzing a place, we must understand topologies that represent the formative nature and development features (Figure 1.3). A place comprises overlapping spheres of influence demarcated by topographical, geological, political, and phenomenological boundaries. These boundaries intertwine climate, resources, culture, historical and ecological development of landscapes, buildings, streets, and cities in terms of architecture. An understanding of a place is more significant than visual observation; it is also what’s felt. In his book Design with Climate, the architect Victor Olgyay (1910–70) informs us that we must develop our work in harmony between a four-fold realm of ecology, technology, climate, and building. These overlapping realms provide a platform for us to consider the measure of our work. For example, his work on the Bioclimatic Chart develops boundaries of comfort, helping us observe contentment through a documented measurable instrument. To design an architecture considering its place is to be responsive to all these boundaries. Considering these limits provides the freedom to make decisions. To be decisive is to believe in the wholeness of your measured actions. Only by empathizing with the nature of a location can you be sure that your efforts are responsible and respectful of the places in which we dwell. William McDonough defines the place of dwelling in this way: “There are certain fundamental laws that are inherent to the natural world that we can use as models and mentors for human designs. Ecology comes from the Greek roots Oikos and Logos, ‘household’ and ‘logical discourse.’ ”28 Thus, it is appropriate, if not imperative, for architects to speak about ecology and our earth household through logic. The dyad of location and place defines what we call site. A site is both a spatial location and a place or point for the start of an architectural exploration or building project. Siting our work involves positioning and situating oneself in a location, finding the characteristics that form the boundaries of a place. Boundaries are a part of life. Our bodies are semipermeable boundaries, geo­logical or climatological boundaries define ecosystems, and we dwell in structures that mediate inside and outside. Thus, all of where we live and what we make is a system of nesting and containment. 

Landscape Architecture is a profession that now more than ever should be front and centre in developing sustainable design solutions, tackling the impacts of climate change and making the environment round us a better and richer place. The fact that it is suffering from a significant shortfall in professionals when these topics are so relevant to society and they way we live is a huge shame. It is really important we highlight as far as possible the routes into Landscape Architecture and raise its profile as a profession.