1st Edition

Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic A New Look at Design and Resilient Urbanism

By Jana VanderGoot Copyright 2018
292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest over many other types of terrain is well documented. This book re-imagines architecture and urbanism by allowing the forest to be a prominent consideration in the language of design, thus recognizing the forest as essential rather than just... Read more

INTRODUCTION  Part 1 BUILT IN WOOD 1. The Wood Cycle: Plyscrapers and the Cross-Laminated Timber Panel  2. Transposing the Forest: Gothic Cathedrals in Northern France  3. The Design and Make Forest at Hooke Park  4. Fitzroya Architecture: Chiloé Archipelago Churches in Southern Chile  Part 2 DECOMPOSITION 1. Char After Burn: Pyromenon of the Boreal Forest  2. Mycelium Bricks: Hy-Fi in New York City Part 3 COLLECTIVE SPACE IN A FIELD 1. Table in Rome II: Forest as Forum  2. Dehesa and the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba in Spain  3. Constructed Succession: Afterlife at the Beijing Olympic Forest Park  Part 4 FORESTRY CULTURES  1. Hand-over Urbanism: Future Library 2. Logging: DUX and the Fascist Ritorno all’Ordine in Italy  Part 5 TECHNOLOGY AND THE FOREST ARCHIVE  1. Harvard Forest Timelapse 2. Instant City and the Cybernetic Forest  Part 6 TREED INFRASTRUCTURE  1. Treed Infrastructure: The Performance of Planting in Canberra 2. Woodlot Urbanism: Hantz Woodlands in Detroit 3. Waterlogging: Amsterdam and its Bos 4. Low Density Recipe: Tree City at Downsview Park Part 7 HUMAN FOREST BIOSYSTEMS 1. A Vertical Forest Biosystem in the Human Forest Biome 2. Krummholz Design in West Loop 3.  Spontaneous Ornament: Hundertwasser and the Tree Tenant

Biography

Jana VanderGoot is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, USA. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a Master of Architecture from the University of Virginia, and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame. Jana is a registered architect, founding partner of VanderGoot Ezban Studio, and the 2011 recipient of the Rieger Graham Prize ICAA affiliated fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.