Category: plants
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Green Shrouds…
It’s been a bit of time since I’ve referenced some of both the definitions of Veg.itecture and some of the issues of implementation… perhaps a review is in order – or at least a refresher tied to some of the discussions regarding the projects that appear here on L+U. There’s the definition and the specific…
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Tree Art
A couple of recent projects take a different look at plants – particularly by juxtaposing the natural with the cultural – providing a way of thinking about urban nature – or our relationship with our ecosystems, in new ways. Firstly, via Dezeen: “Dutch architects NL created a forest of 100 trees planted in shopping trolleys…
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Veg.itectural Mash Note #44
Well, alas I’d like to think my love is more one-dimensional than just swooning over the work of James Corner. Austria, for one, sounds lovely this time of year, i hear. Vegetated architecture on the other hand, is my one true love … and here’s a real mash note to those vertical, vegetated, and very…
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LAs + Plants
Ok, this is not another post about James Corner (but it does have some more images). Instead, there were some observations from a couple of recent comments that came from ‘Corner(ing) the Market’ a few posts back that I thought worthy of throwing out into the world and seeing what grew. The commentary was particularly…
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Veg.itecture #43
Once again, with feeling… I have green roofs on the brain right now, because upon cracking open my new (and god-awful expensive) copy of Steven Cantor’s Green Roofs in Sustainable Landscape Design – to find a double spread of Multnomah County’s green roof on chapter one… a design I did while at my previous employer…
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Tree Manipulation
It’s always amazing how malleable plant materials can be, particularly as we manipulate them and bend them to our varieties of will. Not content to just allow plants to grow into their natural form, we do all sorts of madness to them – chopping, topping, pleaching, espalier, trimming, bosques, poodling, topiary, arborsculture – in addition…
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Earth-Sheltered
An important and somewhat overlooked aspect of Veg.itectural design is the connection and use of the ground plane in providing critical aspects of the shelter. Whether traditional cave-like dwellings that are carved into the sides of hills, or northern european era sod hut housing. These items are used for literally centuries, and there are still…
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Yeang, Nakamura, Lim
The reputation of Veg.itect extraordinaire Ken Yeang is undisputed, but it’s always nice for a refresher on how far he has been pushing in designing (and getting built) these bioclimatic treasures. Inhabitat has recent coverage of an old favorite – the EDITT tower in Singapore, which is slated for construction. Can’t wait to see this…
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Veg.itecture #41
As I mentioned so innocently in the last installment of Veg.itecture, the quantity of projects out there in the world blending landscape and architecture has grown exponentially. This has two impacts… one is continuing to grow my backlog (it’s at about 70 projects) and making me question the rapidity and interval at which I post…
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Eco-Boulevard Redux
Some more on a project I have touched upon this project a bit in a previous post, Eco-Boulevard, from Spanish innovators Ecosistema Urbano. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to delve into some more of the eye-candy from Arch Daily… and definitely don’t miss Ecosystem Urbano’s great blog as well… which gleans some great urban…