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Sustainable Design And Performance Of Architecture And Landscape Architecture In Urban Areas
Published in Manuel Couceiro da Costa, Filipa Roseta, Joana Pestana Lages, Susana Couceiro da Costa, Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges, 2017
Landscape architecture deals with balancing the built and natural environments through a multidisciplinary approach ranging between science, design and art (ASLA 2016). Urban green spaces are among the tasks of landscape architects and architects, as they include not only parks, street trees, urban agriculture, residential lawns, but, also, green roofs and walls (Kabisch & Haase 2014).
Exploring views on design and service factors for improving housing development green space quality in Taiwan
Published in Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2022
Shiang-I Juan, Lucky Shin-Jyun Tsaih
To learn the comprehensive perspective for improving the quality of housing development green spaces, sampling with 13 different AEC professional groups (i.e. public sector, landscape architecture, architecture, urban planning, horticulture, ecology, structural engineering, civil engineering, construction, interior design, real-estate development, property management, and education) was obtained. The sample characteristics are summarised in Table 1. The participants were 199 males (~52.4%) and 181 females (~47.6%). Their average age was 47, and their average working experience was 19.6 years. Among all the participants, 62% had an executive-level job position. Therefore, this sampling was based on participants who had sufficient working experience in the AEC industry.
Hydrological response of implementing green and blue infrastructure – study of a Brazilian metropolis
Published in Urban Water Journal, 2022
Deyvid Wavel Barreto Rosa, Talita Fernanda Das Graças Silva, Joanne Chong, Damien Giurco, Nilo de Oliveira Nascimento
In principle, the term green and blue infrastructure may refer to greenways, green corridors that provide connectivity among remnant green fragments, performing functions as protection of water resources and biodiversity and promotion of recreational and social cohesion (Frischenbruder and Pellegrino 2006). This is closely related to the oldest and most widely used ‘green infrastructure’ concept, first applied in landscape architecture and landscape ecology (Benedict and McMahon 2000). When considering, among its ecosystem services, the potential use of green infrastructure in stormwater management, the term has become one of the most employed in the context of urban drainage, alongside Best Management Practices and Low Impact Development (Fletcher et al. 2015).
Interdisciplinary education: a case study
Published in European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
The Urbanism studio’s5 learning outcomes focus on: The urbanism track draws on the Dutch tradition of combining urban design, landscape architecture and spatial planning. Students learn to integrate social, cultural, economic and political perspectives with the natural and technical conditions of the site in order to design and plan for more sustainable development.The inter-transdisciplinarity is shaped at different levels of the programme: Not only the multi-actor setting of the often complex – real life spatial problems are at the heart of the programme, but the student body is equally diverse range from architecture, social geography to designer, policy specialist or anyone who acquires a place at the table and is able to deliver a relevant and serious contribution to the outcome. Additionally, students come from a variety of cultural backgrounds having specific lenses through which they frame the urban design problems. If we generalise in cultural terms; Scandinavians and Chinese are very good at planning and regulating governance issues, whereas Italians tend to be better at architecture. So, each person, discipline, and culture brings different perspectives to the table and creates added value in their own way.This diversity, in addition to the multi-actor setting, also requires teachers who have experience with research in a multi-actor setting and education and who are able to work in a team of guest-speakers (experts from different fields), clients (community council members), laymen (local participation of inhabitants of a particular urban space), and diverse student and teacher bodies. Urbanism can be seen as a hybrid discipline in which we continually bring together different specialisms (ideally across engineering faculties and involving humanoria), developing a joint new language to create and voice new insights, thus creating new disciplines with each new integrated problem solution.A pre-condition for operating in this arena is to be open to other disciplines, perspectives and people, to have a strong sense of self (know your strengths and weaknesses) and self-awareness as a tool, to be able to function in a constructive and professional way. Personal development is therefore a core element embedded in the educational activities. Other student skills pertain to communicative, facilitating and leadership competences needed to shape the collaborative work that must be realised. Broad societal interests, creative skills, being able to quickly acquire enough knowledge of new fields to make relevant use of the information, and curiosity to discover and explore are much-needed skills to make working together a success (courtesy Maurice Harteveld/Marco Lub; interview results) (Figure 5).