Breathing Artifacts of Urban BioClimatic Layers for Post-Anthropocene Urban Environment

Marie Davidová
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Marie Davidová: Cluster of Excellence Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture, University of Stuttgart, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 20, 1-36

Abstract: This article seeks the qualitative synthesis of schools of thought from extreme climate regions that could support urban biodiversity and climate change adaptation through architectural design. It proposes that climate comfort and biodiversity are closely related. This article suggests a possible systemic urban metabolism within a built environment that can support a transition to post-Anthropocene, where humans and other species live together in synergy. This article exemplifies and seeks systemic relations and reflections of gathered field studies documentation of case studies of breathing walls, envelopes, and screens generating bioclimatic layers in the cultural landscape, selected for their penetrability and performance. The samples from diverse study journeys that were codesigned through vernacular cultures and the author’s research by design speculations on the responsive screen ‘Ray’ are investigated and speculated upon through gigamapping (visual complexity mapping). This gigamapping is not to present any hard data model but to relate, inform and speculate on the investigated field that is grounded in research by design on cross-species coliving. This is approached through possible architectures and architectural and urban design parasites, transitioning towards synergetic landscapes of our envisioned colived and cocreated futures.

Keywords: post-Anthropocene; cross-species coliving; systemic design; systems-oriented design; systemic approach to architectural performance; metabolic cities; breathing walls; responsive wood; gigamapping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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