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greenspace
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transportation, public, technology, greenspace
Subterrarium Sketch
I’ve been meaning to put up a sketch of this since I started this site. This proposal is to add plants to a public transportation system by building onto the existing advertising light panels.
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nutriment, home, greenspace, gaia
Raw Plants
Food is an interesting intersection of plants, environments, animals and technology. It was a beautiful day here in New York, so I went to the markets as soon as I woke up. This is what I bought.
Ethical diets, are an especially interesting interdisciplinary cuisine. I’m vegan, and after completing a 5 day […]
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aquaculture, home, greenspace, installation
Aquatic Gardens
The water plant conservatory at the Brooklyn Botanic garden (above) has inspired me to do some aquaculture at home.
I’m starting with Umbrella Palm, Lotus and Duckweed.
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home, greenspace, installation
Hanging Green Wall Project
A new project I’m undertaking in the dining room. This is plantotype alpha - the first box. There is a skylight over our dining room table, and I’d like to take advantage of that light with some plants in that part of the house.
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history, city planning, public, greenspace
Green Fingers of København
“The “Finger Plan” from 1947 was a pioneering attempt to locate the urban development of Copenhagen along five radials or “fingers” which connected the centre of the city with five older market towns in the region. The vision was that green wedges or corridors should dominate the space between the fingers which was characterised by […]
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public, greenspace
BUGS
Cutest name ever for a project of this kind: BUGS, “Benefits of Urban Green Space”
Summary from their web site:
The inter-related issues of urban sprawl, traffic congestion, noise, and air pollution are major socio-economic problems faced by most European cities. The main objective of BUGS is to develop an integrated methodology to assess the role […] -
home, architecture, greenspace
Cooling, Breathing
The windowsills in our loft provide the perfect shelf for plants. Without this small architectural detail, we couldn’t have such happy sun-screening air-filtering companions.
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architecture, green building, public, greenspace
Open
Zumthor’s spa in Vals Therme opens visitors to the surrounding natural environment. Although the building is stone, it’s made of stone from the mountains nearby, although the architecture can be cavernous at points, there is always an experience of moving from the earth-core, the stone-nest out into the open nature. Even in the […]
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architecture, green building, public, technology, greenspace
Vertical Garden
Patrick Blanc extends the green roof idea to the external walls of buildings.
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restoration, public, greenspace
Nature Experience
Why introduce green space into the Subway or any other public space? To encourage contact with so called ‘natural’ environments. Contact with non-toxic biological entities (plant or animal) offers potential to reduce suffering and encourage mental states of well being. For an introduction to the literature on the healing effect of ‘natural’ […]
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