Urbanism Matters

Visualization Studies

Architectural design is a collaboration process between the client and the designer. The design flow is also a series of the decision making steps, and often this process gets interrupted. Quick, freehand studies and sketches created for comparison of schemes and architectural details can efficiently unblock the process, and push both the designer and the [...]

Embedded systems, building, block, neighbourhood, city scale

Eco-City

The proposal of the eco-city mimics the functioning of planetary ecosystems, with symbiotic relationship between biotic communities and the resources that support them within a hierarchy of scales. The supporting systems (incl. equipment, facilities and spaces) are created to produce food and energy, to catch and recycle rain and waste water, and to collect and [...]

Danish Community Gardens

Planning

By chance, I came across few articles about community gardens in Denmark, garden colonies to be exact, called kolonihave. Although I am not really a gardener, and my family swears that the plants cry when I approach, I was charmed by the photos and the community feel they project: colorful, cute structures, from tool sheds [...]

Urban gardens

Urbanism Matters

Farms were never part of a village or a town core, but traditionally, they served the region of a relatively small radius. Of course, that might’ve meant food of limited choices. Today, a short walk to a local supermarket opens a door to a world of choices, but at what cost? Large amount of energy [...]

The City-Scale Sustainability

Eco-City

The workshop in Hu Lu Dao provided materials and models for further research with the topic of large-scale sustainable development. The results of to-date research were applied to local conditions, with inclusion of strategically integrated systems. My group’s focus was on urban morphology and creation of the embedded-ecosystem concept. Our proposal mimics the functioning of [...]

Designing the Eco-City in China

Eco-City

In early 2009 I was invited by a French NFP organization, Les Ateliers, to participate as one of 16 international experts in a two-week long International Workshop of designing an eco-city in Hu Lu Dao, Liaoning province, Northeastern China. It was exciting to learn more about China and its culture; to meet and work shoulder to [...]

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