Contemporary Architecture

Arch 3205 Part A

Lecture 13

Ecological Approaches in Architecture II

S.M.Nazimuddin. Architecture Discipline Khulna University.

Organic Architecture
Organic architecture is rooted in a passion for life, nature, and natural forms, and is full of the vitality of the natural world with its biological forms and processes. Emphasizing beauty and harmony, its free-flowing curves and expressive forms are sympathetic to the human body, mind, and spirit.

ecological + individual = organic

Principles Creating a dialogue between Spirit of land Spirit of nature Spirit of form Spirit of substance Spirit of light Spirit of human Frank Lloyd Wright is, for many, the true father of organic architecture. He was not only an architect of rare genius, he was a charismatic speaker, writer, and educator, who inspired a generation of young architects who have continued to work and innovate in the same spirit of design.

Frank Lloyd Wright: Frank Thomas House 1901 Frank Lloyd Wright: Laura Gale House 1906

Sydney Opera House

Organic Architecture

The Sculptured House by Charles Deaton

Green Architecture
Principles of Green Architecture
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2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8)

Preserving the Biosphere: buildings should be designed as planters

Generic Design: relate architecture to biologyto be repeated with variations never deviating from its original archetype Social Responsibility: All architects should be socially responsible Energy and Form: morphology or generation of form should be directly responsive to natural influencesefficient surface to volume ratio Recycling Buildings Divine Proportions: Divine proportions and alignments keep us attuned with the cosmos spiritualizes us Solar Energy Energy Conservation

Green Building

Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, Hyderabad, India

Bio-climatic Architecture

Ken Yeang
architect-planner, ecologist, regarded as one of the foremost designers of green buildings and master plans and a noted authority on ecologically responsive architecture and planning passive low-energy design of tall buildings, which he calls the bioclimatic skyscraper.

Bio-climatic Architecture

Bio-climatic Architecture

Bio-Architecture
Use of Bios Patterns and Images in Architecture and Designing Objectives
to bring out the importance of biological patterns and bio-materials for architecture on different scales and levels of design;

to consider the biological basis of human perception and behavior, the ways to satisfy the needs and demands associated with them;
to present new possibilities and new scopes in restructuring urban and agricultural areas, as well as human settlements in general, in accordance to biopolitical principles. to introduce the notion Biopolis as optimal strategy leading to the realization of bio-architectural patterns

Bio-Architecture
Some of the biological structures of potential use in architecture are
the spider's web which represents a very economical, light network construction; the beehive, whose honeycomb pattern consisting of hexagon and pentagons has attracted designers, architects and painters; the anthill resembling a building in its internal arrangement, complete with underground rooms, with each of the internal compartments performing its own function; the silicon body of a sponge whose complicated pattern of rods running crisscross provides for a strong and elegant construction to be used, for example, in designing huge containers for water or oil; the cell membrane, a double layer of lipid molecules coating a living cell has already been used in what can be referred to as micro-architecture.

Bio-Architecture

La-Piscine-Olympic 3, Beijing

Le-Stade-Olympic 1, Beijing

Bio-Architecture

Osaka Maritime Museum, Japan,, by Paul Andreu

Shanghai Oriental Art Centre, by Paul Andreu

CRADLE TO CRADLE DESIGN William McDonough

Cradle to Cradle design rejects the assumption that human industry inevitably destroys the natural world instead, cradle to cradle design embraces abundance, human ingenuity, and positive aspirations.

Design for an industrial system that:

Purifies air, water, and soil Retains valuable materials for perpetual, productive reuse Requires no regulation Celebrates an abundance of cultural and biological diversity Enhances nature's capacity to thrive Grows health, wealth, and useful resources Generates value and opportunity for all. Such a system, modeled on the natural world's abundance, can solve rather than just manage the problems industry currently creates, allowing both business and nature to thrive and grow.

Greenbridge Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Cradle to Cradle

Boutique JACOB, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

VMware Corporate Campus

Palo Alto, California