Living Systems : Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture
by Margolis, LiatFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-06-03
Publisher(s): De Gruyter
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Summary
The use of innovative new materials is an important trend in landscape architecture today. These materials include biodegradable geotextiles, super-absorbent polymers, and plants that react to changing soil conditions. Water is a major subject. This book presents the available materials and technologies in the context of practical applications, some of them experimental, some of them mature. Cooperation with disciplines such as engineering, architecture and art, environmental technology, town planning, biology, and material research often results in spectacular designs. The sample projects are chosen from six European countries, the United States and Canada, Israel, Japan, China, and Australia. They include the High Line urban reconstruction project in New York City by James Corner/Field Operation, the Vertical Garden by GROSS.MAX with Mark Dion in London, and the landscape architecture surrounding Municha??s Allianz Arena by Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. 8 |
| Introduction | p. 10 |
| Systems and Applications | |
| Launch | |
| Introduction | p. 14 |
| Multi-Tiered Vine Park | p. 16 |
| MFO Park, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Raderschall Landschaftsarchitekten AG + Burckhardt & Partner AG | |
| Misting Vine Pergola | p. 22 |
| Parque de Diagonal Mar, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue, EMBT Arquitectes Associates | |
| Wind Adapted Road Canopy Structure | p. 26 |
| Palio de Bougainvilleas, San Juan, Puerto Rico | |
| West 8 | |
| Fire-Escape Ecosystem | p. 30 |
| Vertical Garden, London, U.K. | |
| GROSS.MAX + Mark Dion | |
| Parasitic Vegetal Structure | p. 34 |
| MAK t6 VACANT, The MAK Center and SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
| David Fletcher + Juan Azulay | |
| Stratify | |
| Introduction | p. 36 |
| Mechanically Stabilized Landform | p. 38 |
| Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA, USA | |
| Weiss/Manfredi Architects | |
| Floating Grass Plain | p. 42 |
| Wonder Holland, Dutch Embassy, Rome, Italy | |
| West 8 | |
| Multi-Operational Modular Surface | p. 44 |
| The High Line, Section I, New York, NY, USA | |
| Field Operations | |
| Gradient of Resilience | p. 48 |
| Safe Zone, Reford Gardens, Grand-Metis, Quebec, Canada | |
| StoSS Landscape Urbanism | |
| Surface Inversion | p. 52 |
| Maritime Youth House, Sundby Harbour, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| PLOT=BIG+JDS | |
| Fluid | |
| Introduction | p. 56 |
| Weaving Porous and Nonporous Surfaces | p. 58 |
| Allianz Arena Munich Stadium, Munich, Germany | |
| Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten + Herzog & de Meuron | |
| Inflatable Dam System | p. 62 |
| Environmental Restoration of Besos River, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Barcelona Regional Agencia Metropolitana de Desenvolupament Urbanistic i d'Infraestructures S.A. | |
| Stormwater Garden | p. 64 |
| Blackstone Power Plant Renovation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA | |
| Landworks Studio, Inc. | |
| Drop Structures for Suburban Stormwater System | p. 68 |
| Shop Creek, Aurora, CO, USA | |
| Wenk Associates, Inc. + Mueller Engineering, Inc. + Black & Veatch | |
| Networked Sidewalk Stormwater System | p. 70 |
| SW 12th Avenue Green Street Project, Portland, OR, USA | |
| Portland Bureau of Environmental Services | |
| Biotechnical Wave & Erosion Control Structures | p. 72 |
| Delta In-Channel Islands, Sacramento-San Joaquin River, San Francisco Bay, CA, USA | |
| MBK Engineers + Kjeldsen Biological Consulting + LSA Associates, Inc. | |
| Grooming | |
| Introduction | p. 76 |
| Tree Crutches Growing Guides | p. 78 |
| Courtyard Garden, University Library, Universiteit Utrecht, Holland | |
| West 8 | |
| Hedge-Trimming Armature | p. 80 |
| Shoulder Hedge, The Lurie Garden, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL, USA | |
| Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd. + Piet Oudolf + Robert Israel | |
| Artificial Winter Climate for a Bamboo Garden: Hybridized Hydrologies, Erie Street Plaza, Milwaukee, WI, USA StoSS Landscape Urbanism | p. 84 |
| Saltwater Herbicide System | p. 88 |
| Marsh Planters, East River Ferry Landings, New York, NY, USA | |
| Ken Smith Landscape Architect | |
| Low-Maintenance Perennial Plantings | p. 92 |
| Riem Landscape Park, Munich, Germany | |
| LUZ Landschaftsarchitekten | |
| Stunted Growth Pattern | p. 96 |
| Elsassertor office building, Basel, Switzerland | |
| Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten + Herzog & de Meuron | |
| Digestive | |
| Introduction | p. 100 |
| Bio-Remediation Park Design | p. 102 |
| Former British Petroleum Park, Sydney, Australia McGregor+Partners | p. 102 |
| Fluvially Integrated Effluent Wetlands | p. 106 |
| Environmental Restoration of Besos River, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Barcelona Regional Agencia Metropolitana de Desenvolupament Urbanistic i d'Infraestructures S.A. | |
| Water-Cleansing Biotope | p. 110 |
| DaimlerChrysler Plaza, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany | |
| Atelier Dreiseitl | |
| On-Site Sewage Treatment System | p. 112 |
| Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C., USA | |
| Andropogon Associates + Kieran Timberlake Associates + Natural Systems International | |
| Ground Reconstitution Strategy | p. 114 |
| Urban Outfitters Navy Yard Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA, USA | |
| D.I.R.T. studio | |
| Strategic Contaminated Soil Placement | p. 118 |
| Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Holland | |
| Gustafson Porter | |
| Translate | |
| Introduction | p. 122 |
| Pneumatic Body | p. 124 |
| Ephemeral Structures, Olympic Games, Athens, Greece | |
| ONL [Oosterhuis_Lenard] | |
| Powered by Wind, the Ground is a Turntable | p. 128 |
| Courtyard In the Wind, Buildings Department Administration Building, Munich, Germany | |
| Acconci Studio + Wolfgang Hermann Niemeyer | |
| Weather Informed Park Access System | p. 130 |
| Environmental Restoration of Besos River, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Barcelona Regional Agencia Metropolitana de Desenvolupament Urbanistic i d'Infraestructures S.A. | |
| Fiber Optic Marsh | p. 132 |
| Field's Point, Providence, RI, USA | |
| Abby Feldman, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design | |
| Volatile | |
| Introduction | p. 134 |
| Responsive Cloud Machine | p. 136 |
| Harvey Milk Memorial, San Francisco, CA, USA | |
| Christian Werthmann & LOMA architecture.landscape.urbanism | |
| Computer Animated Rain | p. 138 |
| Pitterpatterns, Stadt.haus, Scharnhauser Park, Stuttgart, Germany | |
| J. Mayer H. Architekten | |
| Dynamic Thermal Wind Wall | p. 142 |
| Wind Veil, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, USA and Technorama Facade, Winterthur, Switzerland Ned Kahn | |
| Impression of Rain | p. 146 |
| Weather Garden, The Park Hyatt Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten + Meili, Peter Architekten | |
| Products and Technologies | |
| G-Sky Green Wall Panels: Modular Vertical Planting Systems | p. 150 |
| Earth Cinch: Biodegradable Growth System | p. 151 |
| Flexterra & Soil Guard: Flexible Growth Medium (FGM) & Bonded Fiber Matrix (BFM) | p. 152 |
| SaiCoir Erosion Net, BioNet, Nedia Erosion Control Blankets: Biodegradable Erosion Control Geotextiles | p. 153 |
| Envirogrid: Geocell - Three-Dimensional Cellular Soil Confinement | p. 154 |
| Land.Tiles: Erosion Control Tile System | p. 156 |
| Cornell University (CU)-Structural Soil and Amsterdam Tree Sand: Structural Soils | p. 158 |
| EnduraSafe: Recycled Rubber Mulch | p. 159 |
| Porous Concrete & Asphalt: Pervious Pavement | p. 160 |
| Soil Cement: Cement Modified Soils | p. 161 |
| Soil Moist, Stockabsorb, Watersorb, PetroGuard, Oasis: Super-Absorbent Polymers (Hydrogel) | p. 162 |
| Bridgestone Rubber Dam: Inflatable Dams | p. 163 |
| Biobarrier: Root Growth Control Textiles | p. 164 |
| Controlled Burning: Prescribed Fire | p. 165 |
| Toxic Filtration via Fungi: Mycoremediation | p. 166 |
| Land Imprinting: Re-Vegetating Degraded Land | p. 168 |
| Naturaire Systems: Indoor Air Biofilters | p. 170 |
| TXActive - Photocatalytic Cement: Self-Cleaning, Smog-Eating Concrete | p. 171 |
| BioHaven Wild Floating Islands: Floating Habitat | p. 172 |
| Newspaper Nitrate Treatment: Bioretention Medium | p. 174 |
| Data Fountain: Comparative Information Display | p. 175 |
| Sandscape & Illuminating Clay: Tangible Geo-Spatial Analysis | p. 176 |
| Outdoor Misting System: Mist and Fog Systems | p. 177 |
| Project Credits | p. 178 |
| Acknowlegements | p. 185 |
| Illustration Credits | p. 186 |
| Index | p. 188 |
| On the authors | p. 191 |
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