From Ornament to Building Material: Revisiting the Aesthetics and Function of Green Architecture
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, we have been witnessing a persistent presence of greenery in architecture, in its most extensive application, with diverse ranges of technological sophistication, fruition, maintenance, form, and expression. The article focuses on the current use of v...
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| description | Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, we have been witnessing a persistent presence of greenery in architecture, in its most extensive application, with diverse ranges of technological sophistication, fruition, maintenance, form, and expression. The article focuses on the current use of vegetation in architecture, examining its expressive, artistic, and spatial qualities beyond environmental performances. Accordingly, the innovative interpretation of greenery is addressed within the current resurfacing debate over ornament, its aesthetic and semantic outcome, and its interaction with the inhabitants. Attention is directed at identifying recent design approaches towards nature and artifice, from the building interior to its adjacent urban space, with the aim of highlighting novel paths towards the articulation of spatial and technological systems, opening up multidisciplinary research towards new concepts of symbiosis between the natural and the artificial. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cb570884912d4f7292e0730fe89843b52023-11-16T19:00:31ZengMDPI AGArts2076-07522023-01-011211210.3390/arts12010012From Ornament to Building Material: Revisiting the Aesthetics and Function of Green ArchitectureLaura Daglio0Stamatina Kousidi1Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, ItalyDepartment of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, ItalySince the beginning of the twenty-first century, we have been witnessing a persistent presence of greenery in architecture, in its most extensive application, with diverse ranges of technological sophistication, fruition, maintenance, form, and expression. The article focuses on the current use of vegetation in architecture, examining its expressive, artistic, and spatial qualities beyond environmental performances. Accordingly, the innovative interpretation of greenery is addressed within the current resurfacing debate over ornament, its aesthetic and semantic outcome, and its interaction with the inhabitants. Attention is directed at identifying recent design approaches towards nature and artifice, from the building interior to its adjacent urban space, with the aim of highlighting novel paths towards the articulation of spatial and technological systems, opening up multidisciplinary research towards new concepts of symbiosis between the natural and the artificial.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/12/1/12ornamenttectonicssustainability aestheticsarchitecture-nature integration |
| spellingShingle | Laura Daglio Stamatina Kousidi From Ornament to Building Material: Revisiting the Aesthetics and Function of Green Architecture Arts ornament tectonics sustainability aesthetics architecture-nature integration |
| title | From Ornament to Building Material: Revisiting the Aesthetics and Function of Green Architecture |
| title_full | From Ornament to Building Material: Revisiting the Aesthetics and Function of Green Architecture |
| title_fullStr | From Ornament to Building Material: Revisiting the Aesthetics and Function of Green Architecture |
| title_full_unstemmed | From Ornament to Building Material: Revisiting the Aesthetics and Function of Green Architecture |
| title_short | From Ornament to Building Material: Revisiting the Aesthetics and Function of Green Architecture |
| title_sort | from ornament to building material revisiting the aesthetics and function of green architecture |
| topic | ornament tectonics sustainability aesthetics architecture-nature integration |
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