Young architecture professionals examined crossovers between ecology and architecture, and ways to apply this by building in interaction with the environment. Within a case study at the Amsterdam Science Park, they designed building proposals in which complexity, biodiversity, ecology and self-organization are central. This concerns building in the broadest sense of the word: forming elements into structures, at different levels of complexity.
Urban Ecology: making the living city
Designs & Interventions for Amsterdam Science Park
How do we develop sustainable and nature-inclusive urban areas? Starting from this question, Esmee Geerken, ArtScience fellow at the UvA Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and WAAG-artist in residence, created the course 'Urban Ecology: building as being' for the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture.
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