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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462441003321

Autore

Poletto Marco

Titolo

Systemic architecture : operating manual for the self-organizing city / / Marco Poletto, Claudia Pasquero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-58592-8

9786613898371

0-203-12307-7

1-136-33690-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PasqueroClaudia

Disciplina

711/.4

Soggetti

Architecture - Environmental aspects

City planning

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Systemic Architecture; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Thoughts; The ecology of the self-organizing city; The urban algorithm; Coding as gardening; Algorithmic diverseCity; Architecture as systemic design practice; Discussions; On systemic architecture; The liquid city; Ecology and material culture; Environments [b1]; eco-social frameworks; eco-social landscapes; [b1:1.1] Messina 2012: A Regional Proto-Garden; [b1:1.2] Regimes of Slowness Caracas: Operational Landscapes; [b1:2.3] The Systemic Favela: Design Algorithms for a Social Free-Zone in the Arabic Peninsula

[b1:2.4] The World Dubai Marine Life IncubatorsMachines [b2]; fibrous structures; ecoMachines; [b2:1.1] From Fibrous Room to Aqva Garden; [b2:2.2] The STEM series; Behavioural Spaces [b3]; spaces of co-design; spaces of social networking; [b3:1.1] The Cyber-Gardens (Fish & Chips); [b3:1.2] Relational Machines: The Ecological Footprint Grotto; [b3:2.3] FUNclouds; [b3:2.4] Social Network City: Milan 2015 Metropolitan Proto-Garden; Credits; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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,