Bookshop. ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide. Housing the Future. Feature Housing the Future A Swedish housing exposition aims to marry sustainability and urban form. By Kenneth Helphand, FASLA Many American communities hold an annual Street of Dreams, a tour of houses, typically part of new developments, intended to showcase residential architecture, landscape, and interior design. Exhibited for a short period of time, the homes are purchased and their true life then begins. The exposition is known as Bo01, which stands for "living 2001," and it is Sweden's first international housing exposition—but it is also much more.
Bo01 includes the permanent construction of housing and open spaces, temporary exposition buildings, and a garden exposition. The overall plan called for housing surrounded by parkland and the sea. The massing of the structures is especially sensitive to the windy nature of the site, with the houses serving as windbreaks. Three new parks flank the residential core. Ankarparken (Anchor Park), designed by Stig L.
Landscape Architecture « Jacques Abelman, Celine Baumann (celinebaumann.tumblr.com), YukaYoshida The Wildpoints strategy creates a new form of urban green by actively seeking out new places for nature to colonize the city. The end result of found nature and design interventions adds up to an urban biodiversity network. Discovering Wildpoints The small presence of uninvited nature in the city – where wild grasses and plants come up through the cracks, providing food and shelter for insects, birds, and other small urban animals, are almost never created intentionally.
They spring up at construction sites in disturbed soil, in quiet alleys where wind-borne seeds settle and thrive between bricks, or under bridges where mosses and ferns find the humidity and darkness they need. These sites are reservoirs of genetic diversity as well as habitats for uncounted species. What is biodiversity in the city? Biodiversity can have many interpretations. 4 New Biotopes for Urban Sites Results and Benefits.
The Dirt. At the 2013 ASLA Annual Meeting in Boston, prominent design critics Christopher Hume, Toronto Star; Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer; Cathleen McGuigan, Architectural Record, and Christopher Hawthorne, The Los Angeles Times discussed their travels through Boston’s controversial Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway and other sites using ASLA’s new Landscape Architect’s Guide to Boston. The critics also critiqued the guide and explored the changing nature of design guidebooks in the digital age. Long-time Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell asked the critics pointed questions about what they thought about landscape architecture in Boston. He said Boston’s landscapes have been designed since the city’s founding, with filled land. The city’s landscape and its history is then particularly “readable.” Landscape Architecture Is an Afterthought on the Greenway After his day-long walk-a-bout, Hume said the RFK Greenway was a “failure of the city and landscape architecture in general.”