Is Sustainability Reorienting the Visual Expression of Architecture?

Cucuzzella, Carmela

doi:10.7202/1035398ar

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“…Does the sustainability paradigm influence architectural aesthetics and how? (Cucuzzella, 2015); what trends in sustainable architecture and the built environment can be distinguished? (Guy and Farmer, 2001;Wines, 2002;Sauerbruch and Hutton, 2011;Di Carlo, 2016); how can sustainability aesthetics be defined (Kagan, 2011) and experienced?…”

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The role of aesthetics in building sustainability assessment

Gražulevičiūtė–Vileniškė

Viliūnas

Daugelaite

2021

Spatium

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This theoretical study examines the role of aesthetics in the assessment frameworks of sustainable architecture. The article is organized into two main sections: a general literature review and the results. The results section encompasses an analysis of the place of aesthetic quality in the understanding of sustainable architecture, and an overview and discussion of the general sustainable building assessment frameworks and the main sustainable buildings certification systems (LEED, BREEAM, WELL, Living Building Challenge), identifying the existing and potential place of cultural sustainability and aesthetics in them. Finally, four architectural theories holding the potential for balancing human and environmental criteria in the assessment of sustainable architecture are presented. These theories are: sustainability aesthetics, genius loci, biophilia, and a regenerative approach. The conclusion was made that these approaches hold the potential for the breakthrough of aesthetic quality and uniqueness of sustainable architecture.

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The role of aesthetics in building sustainability assessment

Gražulevičiūtė–Vileniškė

Viliūnas

Daugelaite

2021

Spatium

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“…A rise in the occurrence of discernible eco-features in the design of the city-its buildings and public spaces-has occurred in the past few decades, which may contribute to this [6,[17][18][19][20][21][22]. In this emerging phenomenon, projects are not only designed to be ecoefficient, but they are also designed to appear eco-efficient [23].…”

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Activating Data through Eco-Didactic Design in the Public Realm: Enabling Sustainable Development in Cities

2021

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This paper explores how design in the public realm can integrate city data to help disseminate the information embedded within it and provide urban opportunities for knowledge exchange. The hypothesis is that such art and design practices in public spaces, as places of knowledge exchange, may enable more sustainable communities and cities through the visualization of data. To achieve this, we developed a methodology to compare various design approaches for integrating three main elements in public-space design projects: city data, specific issues of sustainability, and varying methods for activating the data. To test this methodology, we applied it to a pedogeological project where students were required to render city data visible. We analyze the proposals presented by the young designers to understand their approaches to design, data, and education. We study how they “educate” and “dialogue” with the community about sustainable issues. Specifically, the research attempts to answer the following questions: (1) How can we use data in the design of public spaces as a means for sustainability knowledge exchange in the city? (2) How can community-based design contribute to innovative data collection and dissemination for advancing sustainability in the city? (3) What are the overlaps between the projects’ intended impacts and the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Our findings suggest that there is a need for such creative practices, as they make information available to the community, using unconventional methods. Furthermore, more research is needed to better understand the short- and long-term outcomes of these works in the public realm.

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“…It may be that some of the predominant international discourses and approaches have to be reconsidered in order to re-position humans at the center of climate change issues, to move away from demonstrative ecological add-ons, and rather towards critical integration [19,29,32].…”

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“…In the context of urban renewal and city development, this anthropological axis can be correlated with cultural development approaches. Cucuzzella[19] also provides a mapping tool, developed in the context of sustainable architectural projects in order to better understand the emerging architectural rhetoric of environmental buildings. In her approach, projects are examined based on two main axes: (1) textually:their overall design narrative (polarity between technical vs. cultural design narrative), and (2) constructively: their visual eco-expressiveness (polarity between visible vs. non-visible eco-features).…”

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Infrastructure as a Deeply Integrated Sustainable Urban Project

2019

J Sustain Res

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This paper explores infrastructure projects that present a conscious merging between urban transformation, community development, culture, and technology through sustainable design. When urban projects successfully and meaningfully include all these dimensions, we refer to them as "blended infrastructure" projects, since they offer much more than just infrastructure. A literature review pertaining to the rejuvenation and renewal of cities reveals that infrastructure projects have the potential to be at once, smart and ecological as well as cultural and deeply integrated urban interventions. We, therefore, propose that 'blended infrastructure' projects are those that profoundly integrate anthropological and technological dimensions. These two poles are the basis of our analysis method. Our methodology, which includes a mapping tool, is used to cartograph a series of design projects. We select two sets of projects for analysis. First, we select "light infrastructure" projects that are not yet built, still in an imaginary phase, which have a common underlying positive intention of bringing sustainability to the city. Second, we select heavier, already built, infrastructure projects, those subjected to real-world constraints, i.e., economic, political, etc. These polarities (light and imagined vs. heavy and realized) will help test the applicability of this mapping approach on different types of infrastructures. By studying projects on either side of a spatial design spectrum, we aim to understand which types of projects have a potential to be "blended infrastructure" projects-and therefore, deeply integrated sustainable urban interventions, as key contributions to the future of our cities.

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Is Sustainability Reorienting the Visual Expression of Architecture?

Abstract: Design Studies in Canada (and beyond) Volume 40, numéro 2, 2015 URI : id.erudit.org/iderudit/1035398ar

Cited by 8 publications

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The role of aesthetics in building sustainability assessment

The role of aesthetics in building sustainability assessment

Activating Data through Eco-Didactic Design in the Public Realm: Enabling Sustainable Development in Cities

Infrastructure as a Deeply Integrated Sustainable Urban Project

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