Living systems : innovative materials and technologies for landscape architecture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Margolis, Liat
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Robinson, Alexander (Landscape architect)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, 2007.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • DIGESTIVE : Bio-remediation park design : Former British Petroleum Park, Sydney, Australia / McGregor + Partners
  • Fluvially integrated effluent wetlands : Environmental restoration of Besòs River, Barcelona / Barcelona Regional Agència Metropolitana de Desenvolupament Urbanístic i d'Infraestructures S.A.
  • Water-cleansing biotope : DaimlerChrysler Plaza, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin / Atelier Dreiseitl
  • On-site sewage-treatment system : Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC / Andropogon Associates + Kieran Timlerlake Associates + Natural Systems International
  • Ground reconstitution strategy : Urban Outfitters Navy Yard Headquarters, Philadelphia, / D.I.R.T. Studio
  • Strategic contaminated soil placement : Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam / Gustafson Porter
  • TRANSLATE : Pneumatic body : Ephemeral structures, Olympic Games, Athens / ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd]
  • Powered by wind, the ground is a turntable : Courtyard in the Wind, Buildings Department Administration BUilding, Munich / Acconci Studio + Wolfgang Hermann Niemeyer
  • Weather informed park access system : Environmental restoration of Besòs River, Barcelona / Barcelona Regional Agència Metropolitana de Desenvolupament Urbanístic i d'Infraestructures S.A.
  • Fiber optic marsh : Field's Point, Providence, RI / Abby Feldman, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
  • VOLATILE : Responsive cloud machine : Harvey Milk Memorial, San Francisco / Christian Werthmann & LOMA architecture.landscape.urbanism
  • Computer animated rain : Pitterpatterns, Stadthaus, Scharnhauser Park, Stuttgart / J. MAYER H. Architekten
  • Dynamic thermal wind wall : Wind veil, Mesa, AZ and Technorama Façade, Winterthur, Switzerland / Ned Kahn
  • Impression of rain : Weather Garden, The Park Hyatt Hotel, Zurich / Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten + Melli, Peter Architekten
  • Products and technologies.
  • Systems and applications : LAUNCH : Multi-tiered vine park : MFO Park, Zurich / Raderschall Landschaftsarchitekten AG + Burckhardt & Partner AG
  • Misting vine pergola : Parque de Diagonal Mar, Barcelona / Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue
  • Wind adapted road canopy structure : Palio de Bougainvilleas, San Juan, Puerto Rico / West 8
  • Fire-escape ecosystem : Vertical Garden, London / GROSS.MAX + Mark Dion
  • Parasitic vegetal structure : MAK t6 VACANT, The MAK Center and SCI-Arc, Los Angeles / David Fletcher + Juan Azulay
  • STRATIFY : Mechanically stabilized landform : Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle / Weiss/Manfredi Architects
  • Floating grass plain : Wonder Holland, Dutch Embassy, Rome / West 8
  • Multi-operational modular surface : The High Line, Section I, New York / Field Operations
  • Gradient of resilience : Safe Zone, Reford Gardens, Grand-Métis, Quebec / StoSS Landscape Urbanism
  • Surface inversion : Maritime Youth House, Sundby Harbour, Copenhagen / PLOT=BIG+JDS
  • FLUID : Weaving porous and nonporous surfaces : Allianz Arena Munich Stadium, Munich / Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten + Herzon & de Meuron
  • Inflatable dam system : Environmental restoration of Besòs River, Barcelona / Barcelona Regional Agència Metropolitana de Desenvolupament Urbanístic i d'Infraestructures S.A.
  • Stormwater garden : Blackstone Power Plant renovation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA / Landworks Studio, Inc.
  • Drop structures for suburban stormwater system : Shop Creek, Aurora, CO / Wenk Associates, Inc. + Mueller Engineering, Ind. + Black & Veatch
  • Networked sidewalk stormwater system : SW 12th Avenue Green Street Project, Portland, OR / Portland Bureau of Environmental Services
  • Biotechnical wave & erosion control structures : Delta In-Channel Islands, Sacramento-San Joaquin River, San Francisco Bay MBK Engineers + Kjeldsen Biological Consulting + LSA Associates, Inc.
  • GROOMING : Tree crutches growing guides : Courtyard Garden, University Library, Universiteit Utrecht, Holland / West 8
  • Hedge-trimming armature : Shoulder hedge, The Lurie Garden, Millennium Park, Chicago / Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, Ltd. + Piet Oudolf + Robert Israel
  • Artificial winter climate for a bamboo garden : Hybridized hydrologies, Erie Street Plaza, Milwaukee / StoSS Landscape Urbanism
  • Saltwater herbicide system : Marsh planters, East River Ferry Landing, New York / Ken Smith Landscape Architect
  • Low-maintenance perennial plantings : Riem Landscape Park Munich / LUZ Landschaftsarchitekten
  • Stunted growth pattern : Elsässertor office building, Basel, Switzerland / Vogt Landscaftsarchitekten + Herzog & de Meuron