Landscape Infrastructure : : Case Studies by SWA / / Ying-Yu Hung, Gerdo Aquino; ed. by The Infrastructure Research Initiative at SWA.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Architecture, Design and Arts 2000 - 2014
• VerfasserIn: Hung, Ying-Yu,; Aquino, Gerdo,; Bélanger, Pierre,; Czerniak, Julia,; Geuze, Adriaan,; Robinson, Alexander,; Skjonsberg, Matthew,; Waldheim, Charles,
• MitwirkendeR: Aquino, Gerdo,; Bélanger, Pierre,; Czerniak, Julia,; Geuze, Adriaan,; Hung, Ying-Yu,; Robinson, Alexander,; Skjonsberg, Matthew,; Waldheim, Charles,
• HerausgeberIn: The Infrastructure Research Initiative at SWA, ,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 2nd. ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Essays --; Reading the recent work of SWA --; Landscape infrastructure --; Infrastructural Ecologies --; Foregrounding --; Second Nature --; Modulating Infrastructural Flows to Create Open Space --; Performance --; Aggregate --; Network --; Increment --; Project Credits --; The Authors --; Illustration Credits --; Acknowledgements
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783034615853; 9783110635690; 9783110621129; 9783110238570; 9783110317350; 9783110317152; 9783110317145
• DOI: 10.1515/9783034615853
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ying-Yu Hung, Gerdo Aquino; ed. by The Infrastructure Research Initiative at SWA.

In zweiter Auflage: der erfolgreiche Titel zu aktuellen Tendenzen in der LandschaftsarchitekturInfrastruktur ist ein derzeit vieldiskutierter Begriff in der Landschaftsarchitektur. Er begreift den gesamten städtischen wie ländlichen Raum als Netzwerk, das einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz in der Planung erfordert. Natürliche und geschaffene Infrastrukturen werden als Einheit aufgefasst. Dieses Buch beleuchtet das neue und ökologisch nachhaltige Konzept in Essays von namhaften Fachleuten. Dazu werden 14 internationale Beispiele exemplarisch dokumentiert. Die Infrastructure Research Initiative ist Teil der SWA Group, das sich seit seiner Gründung 1957 durch Peter Walker zu einem der wichtigsten und größten US-amerikanischen Büros für Landschaftsplanung entwickelt hat. Internationales Aufsehen erregte u.a. ihre Gestaltung der technisch innovativen Dachkuppeln für die von Renzo Piano entworfene California Academy of Science in San Francisco (2008), die mit heimischer Flora bepflanzt wurden. Now available as revised edition: The successful title on integrated ecological landscape planning Infrastructure, as we know it, no longer belongs in the exclusive realm of engineers and transportation planners. In the context of rapidly changing cities and towns, infrastructure is experiencing a paradigm shift where multiple-use programming and the integration of latent ecologies is a primary consideration. Defining contemporary infrastructure requires a multi-disciplinary team of landscape architects, engineers, architects and planners to fully realize the benefits to our cultural and natural systems. This book examines the potential of landscape as infrastructure via essays by notable authors and supporting case studies by SWA landscape architects and urban designers, among them the technologically innovative roof domes for Renzo Piano’s California Academy of Science in San Francisco, the restoration of the Buffalo Bayou in Houston, and several master plans for ecological corridors in China and Korea. Other projects develop smart re-use concepts for railroad tracks that no longer serve their original purpose, such as Kyung-Chun railway in Seoul or Katy Trail in Dallas. All case studies are described extensively with technical diagrams and plans for repositioning infrastructure as a viable medium for addressing issues of ecology, transit, urbanism, performance, and habitat.