Environmental tectonics
Subtitle: forming climatic change
By: edited by Steve Hardy
Series: AA agendas -- no. 6; AA agendas -- no. 6.
Publisher: AA Publication
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781902902647
Subjects: Architecture; Environmental aspects; Sustainable architecture; Design; Climatic changes; Climate Change; Aspect de l'environnement; Architecture durable; Climat; Changements; Climate change; The environment; Bauökologie; Architettura; Aspetti ambientali; Architettura sostenibile
Description: "In relation to architecture, the terms Environment, Ecology and Sustainability remain loosely defined. Over the past two years the EES Research Cluster at the AA has critically reassessed their meaning in an attempt to open up a discussion around a new paradigm of environmental design - one that moves beyond the obvious issue of carbon conservation and seeks new material and organisational tectonics and new forms of collaboration between architects, engineers and scientists." "The results of this research are gathered in this publication, along with a selection of award-winning projects from the two cycles of the 'Environmental Tectonics' competition organised by the EES cluster."--Jacket
Notes: At head of title: Architectural Association London.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Steve Hardy; title: Ironies, impracticalities and ecologies / Brett Steele; title: Environmental tectonics: a call for projects competition; title: [I] Morphological : Environmental morphologies / Steve Hardy : BAD (Bath) / SMAQ: Sabine Müller, Andreas Quednau; title: Eco-boulevard / Belinda Tato Serrano, Jose Luis Vallejo Mateo, Diego Garcia-Setien Terol; title: Hydro wall / Virginia San Fratello; title: Koivu tree / Tuomas Pirinen; title: Marine Cultivation Park / Erik Brett Jacobsen; title: Biot(r)ope Sensorium / Ross McLean; title: [II] Ornamental : Environmental ornamentation / Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee : Reef surface mobile islands / William Hai Liang Chen; title: Private sun/public shadow / Dusanka Popovska, Galit Shiff; title: Orchid Water Garden / Vincent Young; title: Fogharvester / Toby Burgess; title: Dirty gardens pavilions / Peter Macapia; title: Storm watershed / Dan Marks; title: Synthetic gardens: an architecture of vibrant substrates / Daniel Norell, Ellie Abrons, Adam Fure; title: [III] Sustainable : Sustainable environmental design / Simos Yannas : Handmade school / Anna Heringer, Eike Roswag; title: Eureka School / Vennila Thirumavalavan; title: Wet wall / Watson Architecture + Design: Robert Watson [and others]; title: PhotoThermHouse / Mattias Rubin de Lima; title: Living delta / Rafiq Azam; title: Mews House NW6 / Jonathan Pile; title: [IV] Global : Recombinant ecologies / Andrei Martin with projects by Mohamed Abdelghafar, Darren Chan, Natalie Ghatan, Alex James : Vertical farm / Chung Yin Ho; title: Shibaura Island Tower / Christopher Robeller; title: Radiant hydronic and lattice houses / Tom Wiscombe; title: Condensation4645 / Poyuan Huang; title: [V] Ecological : EcoMachines / Marco Poletto : Metabolicopera / Anna Dyson [and others]; title: Machine + city / Kwok Wah Tung; title: Sustainable housing neighbourhood / Florian Heinzelmann, Takeru Sato; title: Aqua cells / Fotios Vasilakis, Fani Natou; title: Climodynamic appliance / EcoLogic Studio & AA Summer School; title: Re-sustenance / Richard Saunders, Akram Fahmi; title: Tower of winds / Cordula Weisser [and others]; title: [VI] Climatological : Landscape issues / Sandra Morris : VOL///IIIET02 / Eduardo de Oliveira Barata; title: Dry water / Daniel Talesnik; title: Down to earth / Ruth Kedar; title: Wasteland / Pierre Belanger [and others]; title: CPULS4TG2016 / Katrin Bohn, Andreas Viljoen, Jorge Peña Díaz; title: Environmental techtonics: a call for projects : 2006 competition results; title: 2007 competition results; title: Environmental tectonics participants.