DOC Transportable Environments by From Taylor Francis in Arts-Photography

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This is a manual investigating the subject of urban ecology and systemic development from the perspective of architectural design. It sets out to explore two main goals: to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design; and to share a toolbox of informational design protocols developed to describe the city as a territory of self-organization.Collecting together nearly a decade of design experiments by the authors and their practice; ecoLogicStudio; the book discusses key disciplinary definitions such as ecologic urbanism; algorithmic architecture; bottom-up or tactical design; behavioural space and the boundary of the natural and the artificial realms within the city and architecture.A new kind of "real-time world-city" is illustrated in the form of an operational design manual for the assemblage of proto-architectures; the incubation of proto-gardens and the coding of proto-interfaces. These prototypes of machinic architecture materialize as synthetic hybrids embedded with biological life (proto-gardens); computational power; behavioural responsiveness (cyber-gardens); spatial articulation (coMachines and fibrous structures); remote sensing (FUNclouds); and communication capabilities (Ecological Footprint Grotto).Supporting the authorsrsquo; own essays and projects are contributions from key innovators in contemporary architecture and urban design: Michael Batty; Andrew Hudson-Smith; Michael Weinstock and Patrik Schumacher.