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Architectural Thesis Proposal
Urban Paradise: Vertical Development of Parks and Recreation in Biophilic Design
located at Ortigas Center,Pasig City,Metro Manila,Philippines
Design Problem
Stressful and unbalanced environment in Urban Areas
Lack of green spaces
Land scarcity due to urbanization
Design Goal
To provide unique and inviting parks and recreation for an urban community, a place free from stress, a place to enjoy at the same time learn, sustain the need for green areas in the city that will help to bring nature back to people and will help reduce pollution and balance urban environment.
Design Concept
“Inviting nature back in the city through Park and recreation in Biophilic design approach”
Merging nature and architecture to established a setting that balances the urban environment.
A Parks and recreation in a vertical setting structure that will provide people needs for an environment that truly enhance life and with well maintained vegetation that improve quality of life and act as physical filters helping to reduce air pollutants. A place where can help people to relief their stress through connecting them back to nature and through different recreational activities. The design of a building will connect its occupants to nature and its many benefits in a variety of ways. Preferring these natural attributes in part because they literally bring buildings to life physically through the use of design strategies and materials, and symbolically through an understanding of deeply rooted affiliations, associations, and meanings.
-Kezia and Jessa
Thesis partner
nature as a living system
create shades
65’ by 14’ tower forest house made of stone, wood and glass, and a copper roof, the house is in tune with nature. Architecture and interior design by Nancy Copley who was the designer and owner of this house.
Edward 0. Wilson, a Harvard myrmecologist and conservationist, in popularizing the term“biophilia”suggested that we need daily contact with nature to be healthy, productive individuals, partly because we have co-evolved with nature.
Specifically, Wilson describes biophilia as “then innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms. Innate means hereditary, and hence, part of ultimate human nature.”
Ficus carica (the plants) makes a breathtaking display of aerial greenery filling the glass dome of what was once a chapel. Tradition has it that the dome was built round the tree.
see how plants can be amazing…
a simple tree and plants somewhere around your house will give good benefits to your self and to your environment
=)
isn’t that great? to be reconnect to nature..
feels relaxing and peaceful…
i love to be there for the rest of my life instead of living in an urbanize area,
right?=)
(via smallrooms)
There are three main strategies for incorporating biophilic elements into the built environment:
- nature in the space
- natural analogues
- nature of the space.
Nature in the space refers to the comfort occupants feel when their environment is thoughtfully filled with fresh air, natural daylight, water features, plant life, and views to nature.
Natural analogues include the use of natural materials and representations of nature through art and conceptual design.
Nature of the space refers to a series of spatial patterns that are found in preferred landscapes, including “prospect”, or views to open spaces, and “refuge”, or comfort in a protective, enclosed area.
Biophilic design | Swiss Re - Centre for Global Dialogue
