Heatherwick - The Humanise Rule
A building should hold your attention for the time it takes to pass it by.
At difference speeds.
- City distance - 40m - it's whole shape like a sculpture
- Street distance - 20m - it's texture, more of it's 3 dimensions, visual interested to stay your attention.
- Door distance - 2m - craftmanship, worth the bother of drawing in it's complexity and levels of interest
Jan Gehr suggests there are differences between a city designed for automobiles with 'load course 50mph architecture' (space between buildings)
What is Resilient Gardening? (RHS)
Design for the environment
Provide beauty
Increase well being reduce impacts of heat, wind, drought, flooding and pollution
Increase biodiversity
Reduce resources
Reduce chemicals
Capture rain water
Be mind of of materials
Can you reduce the need for concrete, does the tree need felling, work with what you have first
Design for time - abandon 'looking good all year round' thinking. It is a fragile eco system
Mindful of previous land use - contaminants, soil, elements
Design for future conditions
Urban heat islands
The combination of towering buildings, roads, concrete & glass, can create complex atmospheric conditions. Wind tunnels and impermeable surfaces contribute to flooding risk. Air quality form traffic and industry. All contribute to cities being as much as 5 degrees warm than surrounding area.
Genius Loci (Michell, Moore, Turnbull)
Heian period in Japan, an anonymous court noble set down the rules and cautions
of garden art in a book called Sakuteiki.
Consider the lay of the land and water.
Study the works of past masters, and recall the places of beauty that you know.
let memory speak, and make into your own that which moves
you most.
Nature's places are not yet gardens; they become gardens only when shaped by us
T. S. Eliot "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."
The Romans read places like faces, as outward revelations of living inner
spirit. Each place (like each person) had its individual Genius
According to the ancient Chinese science of the winds (feng) and the
waters (shui), the earth is traversed by the flowing breath of nature. The
forms of the ground will reveal the presence of azure dragons (the male
principle) and white tigers (the female), and propitious sites for buildings
or gardens will be found where the different currents they represent happen
to cross each other. The art of feng-shui is to choose precisely the right spot.
Each site has its own special qualities of stone and earth and
water, of leaf and blossom, of architectural context, of sun and shade, and
of sounds and scents and breezes.
The Chinese word for "landscape" is written with two characters : shan
("mountains") and shui ("water"). The rigid, erect forms of mountains
are yang to water's yielding, submissive yin. Each shapes the other; water
is contained and molded into streams and cascades and lakes and seas by
the surrounding mountains, while the mountains themselves are eroded
and carved by the flow of water. The character of a site develops from the
balance of shan and shui
Desert springs and wells are concentrated sources, so gardens that depend on them naturally radiate from a cool, shady center to become dense, symmetrical, inward-looking oases.
Gardens that celebrate mountainside sources tend to become linear-narrow strips of green with paths along cascading streams.
Falling rains and mountain mists provide diffuse sources of water, so in damp places like England wide, green expanses lawns,
meadows, and woods
At site in the wild will have reached it's own equilibrium, a garden has one that is reached with maintenance.
What is the architectural connection between inside and out. This varies with culture and climate
How does the sun cross the space?
Proust remarked on a paradox of experience-that beauty, in reality, is
often disappointing, since the imagination can only engage that which is
absent.
Sometimes the most poignant qualities of a site come not from
what is actually there, but from what is connected to it, through time and
space, by our recollections and hopes. The vision, and even more powerfully
the scent, of a blossom may remind us of a moment in our past and
let us store up future memories or form links with poems or paintings that
hold meaning for us
German friends
tell us that during the dark days of National Socialism nursery sales of oak
trees, for instance, dropped to almost nothing-people brought, instead,
locusts and other "weed trees" that would provide shade soon, with nothing
for generations not yet born.
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