C3
C3 367 LANDCSAPE AND BUILDINGS
Code EAN 13 : 2000400010720
date de parution :
2015-05-27
éditeur :
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Architecture, Territory and Nature : Landscape Integrating or Building Landscapes? Architecture
projects gain a new dimension when they have to configure large
landscapes. Both on rural or on urban areas, buildings and public spaces
do not only (1) strongly reinforce its relation with the surroundings
through nature; they also have to work; (2) the introduction of larger
horizon perspectives; (3) the sensitive relation between the artificial
construction and the land; (4) its situation among long structures of
pathways, waterlines, etc., and; (5) the definition of site impacts,
balancing between dissimulation approaches, promoting its integration on
the landscape, or intentional design gestures, creating themselves new
landscapes. These five topics justify why this type of projects
present own characteristics. The design of architecture pieces in
relation with the landscape faces, therefore, specific challenges, which
are illustrated and discussed along the seven following projects. written by João Pedro T. A. Costa Natural and Artificial - Dichotomy or Duality? If,
as a depart, we think about Indian philosophy, we can accept the
possibility that Natural and Artificial are one and same – as Humans are
part of Nature and all human action can not go beyond the very laws of
Nature. Another way of considering the subject is by opposing the two
conditions: Natural vs. Artificial. Following this line thought, we can
define Architecture as an artificial activity – as it is a result of
human’s intelligence and transformative action over Nature, being a
capacity of reorganizing its structure onto a new logic. But we can
also analyze the architectonic production according to its approach,
defining it as a Natural or an Artificial one – in its specific way of
respecting certain rules; of following cultural heritages; of
harmonizing with the surroundings; of opting on different processes; of
using suitable technologies in the construction; of making an evident
use of natural elements or artifices; etc. In the following projects,
we try to understand how architects manage the two conditions, Natural
and Artificial, to achieve a whole harmonic result and how they create a
functional architecture and construction, balancing between Nature and
artifice. written by Paula Melâneo