A Biophilic Pattern Language for Cities: Creating Healthy Urban Environments PDF
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SUSTAINABLE URBAN FUTURES A Biophilic Pattern Language for Cities Creating Healthy Urban Environments Phillip B. Roös Sustainable Urban Futures Series Editors Zaheer Allam Le Hochet Morcellement Raffray Terre-Rouge, Mauritius Sina Shahab School of Geography and Planning Cardiff University Cardiff, UK This series includes a broad range of Pivot length books offering accessible and applied texts designed to appeal to both practitioners and academics in the field. Pivots in the series will explore how sustainability can be achieved in Future Cities and how technology can assist in supporting sustainable transitions to better respond to the urgencies of climate change, equity needs and inclusivity aligning the two core themes of Urban Science and Future Science. Phillip B. Roos ̈ A Biophilic Pattern Language for Cities Creating Healthy Urban Environments Phillip B. Roös School of Architecture and Built Env Deakin University Geelong, VIC, Australia ISSN 2730-6607 ISSN 2730-6615 (electronic) Sustainable Urban Futures ISBN 978-3-031-19070-4 ISBN 978-3-031-19071-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19071-1 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland To my dearest wife Pam, and my children and grandchildren To the late Christopher Alexander—the father of Pattern Languages and to all those other great minds who continue his work A c cknowledgement of ountry I want to acknowledge and pay my respect to the Elders, past, present and future, of the Wadawurrung people who are the Traditional Owners of the Country upon which this book and substance originates. Further, I want to acknowledge and pay my respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters across Australia, and the Torres Strait Islander peoples and the rich cultural and intrinsic connection they have to their Country. I also recognise and acknowledge the contribution that First Nation Peoples have made and will continue to make extraordinary contributions to all aspects of life including culture, economy, arts and science. vii c ontents 1 A Biophilic Pattern Language for Cities 1 2 Beyond Sustainability: An Integral Framework 13 3 Direct Experience of Nature [Pattern 1] 23 4 Indirect Experience of Nature [Pattern 2] 39 5 Experience of Place, Space and Attachment [Pattern 3] 53 6 Nature Patterns, Processes and Systems [Pattern 4] 69 7 Embracing Biophilia: The Pathway to a Regenerative- Adaptive and Resilient Future 83 8 A Case Study: The Biophilic Corridor 95 Index 111 ix A A bout the uthor Phillip B. Roös is an academic and architect, designer, artist, writer and philosopher. His work spans a transdisciplinary discourse in the conver- gence of design, science, art, philosophy and environmental research. Deeply embedded in ecological consciousness, he investigates our innate affiliation to Nature—biophilia—through analysing the phenomena of liv- ing structures. His practice is positioned at the intersections of rigorous academic scholarship and applied real-world projects. As a transdisciplinary practitioner, he investigates questions of human consciousness as well as global social and environmental issues. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor in Architecture—Ecological Design at the School of Architecture and Built Environment and is the Director of the Deakin Biophilia Lab, at Deakin University. He recently authored: Regenerative- Adaptive Design for Sustainable Development—A Pattern Language Approach (2021). Sustainable Development Goals Series, Springer International, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53234-5_1. xi l f ist of igures Fig. 1.1 Biophilic patterns—Barwon Heads. (Image author: PB Roös, 2022) 2 Fig. 1.2 Abundance of wild nature. (Image author: PB Roös, 2022) 5 Fig. 1.3 Sketch of the four meta biophilic patterns. (Image author: PB Roös, 2022) 10 Fig. 2.1 Planetary wellbeing. (Image author: PB Roös, 2022) 14 Fig. 2.2 Sustainable Development Goals (by the United Nations, November 2019, public domain) 15 Fig. 2.3 Sustainable design perspectives embedded in the integral theory. (Image author: PB Roös, 2022, adapted from DeKay, 2011) 18 Fig. 2.4 Integral biophilic pattern language framework. (Image author: PB Roös, 2022) 20 Fig. 3.1 Direct experience of nature in the Otway forest. (Image author: PB Roös, 2022) 24 Fig. 3.2 Biophilic attributes evident in an urban setting. (Image author: PB Roös, 2022) 27 Fig. 3.3 Direct view to nature with prospect. (Image author: PB Roös, 2022) 30 Fig. 3.4 Application diagram of biophilic attributes for Direct Experience of NAture [1]. (Image author: PB Roös, 2022) 31 Fig. 3.5 Sketch of pattern—Direct Experience of NAture [1]. (Image author: PB Roös, 2022) 32 Fig. 4.1 Fractal geometry and complexity. (Image author: PB Roös, 2022) 40 Fig. 4.2 Biophilic elements evident in ornament. (Image author: PB Roös, 2022) 43 xiii
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