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Constructing Urban Habitats: Investigating The Ecological Potential Of Integrating Natural Environments Into Buildings And Landscapes In Urban Areas
Published in Manuel Couceiro da Costa, Filipa Roseta, Joana Pestana Lages, Susana Couceiro da Costa, Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges, 2017
In order to develop and assess ecological design strategies, it is important for design teams to consider a range of existing ecological design strategies. Design strategies that are focused on improving the ecological integrity of local ecosystems can be categorized into three general ecological design strategies: design to foster ecosystem functions, biodiversity, and ecological behavior (Mangone, 2015b). A detailed assessment of the relative value of these design strategies, and comprehensive identification of potential specific design strategies within these broad categories, is outside the scope of this paper. Mangone (2015b) provides a more detailed review. These design strategy categories are used in this paper to categorize the general potential ecological performance of the three general ecological design solutions discussed in Sections 3–5.
Interior Design and Construction
Published in Robert H. Kadlec, Treatment Marshes for Runoff and Polishing, 2019
Ecological design includes specifications that foster the desired vegetation, and optimize the value of the system to wildlife and humans. Physical design encompasses all the choices of how the wetland basin is built, and how the water is conveyed to and through the system. With the exception of urban stormwater wetlands (Schueler, 1992), there is no single comprehensive literature source that explains options for layout and configuration of the cells that typically comprise a treatment marsh. Site civil design and construction is a broad and well-developed discipline of engineering that has been tailored to constructed wetlands through decades of experience.
Architecture
Published in Emmanuel Tsekleves, Rachel Cooper, Design for Health, 2017
The world requires a new paradigm, and the creation of a healthy global society is a vision we should all embrace. Ecological design deals with infrastructure that creates clean air, clean water, clean food and clean land – and these ideals are focused on achieving an ideal interaction between the built and the natural environment.
Public response to the appearance of ecological urban park design: the battle between the ‘picturesque’ and the ‘messiness’
Published in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 2023
The term ecological design emerged in the fields of architectural and landscape design and planning in the late 1960s (Kallipoliti, 2018). Since ecological design is described broadly as ‘any form of design that minimizes environmentally destructive impacts by integrating itself with living processes’ (Van der Ryn & Cowan, 2007, p. 33), the term embraces a variety of design activities – including regional planning, landscape planning, architectural design and product design, just to name a few. For ecological landscape design, specifically, it refers to the incorporation of ecology into design in order to create a landscape that fits well with the natural systems of its site and surrounding, forming an ecologically sound and sustainable landscape. The ecological landscapes, with the use of native species, permeable pavements, local materials and so on, value and make use of the services nature freely provide. Hence, they require less maintenance than conventional landscapes which contain a number of hardscapes, lawns and exotic plants (Danler & Langellotto-Rhodaback, 2015). In addition, these ecological landscapes themselves can also function as green infrastructure which supply ecological services, such as cleaning air, infiltrating and treating stormwater, reducing flood risks, recharging groundwater and providing wildlife habitat, for cities in which they locate.