biophilic design features in vernacular architecture …

BIOPHILIC DESIGN FEATURES IN VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE AND SETTLEMENTS OF THE NAXI

Dr Mengbi Li (Victoria University)Dr Hing-Wah Chau (Victoria University)Prof. Lu Aye (The University of Melbourne)

2020 University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNCC) SymposiumDisruption vs Integration: Pathways to urban trans-formation, July 4

“To explore and affiliate with life is a deep and complicated process in mental development.”

Edward O. Wilson

“Biophilic design is the expression of the inherent human need to affiliate with nature in the design of the built environment.”

Stephen R. Kellert

Vernaculus “domestic, native, indigenous”

“a building designed by an amateur without any training in design; the individual will have been guided by a series of conventions built up in his locality, paying little attention to what may be fashionable”.

Ronald Brunskill

“Folk building growing in response to actual needs, fitted into environment by people who knew no better than to fit them with native feeling”.

Frank Lloyd Wright

BIOPHILIC DESIGN

VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE

People

Built Environment

Nature

Local community

Local natural environment

Place

Diagram by the authors

People

Built Environment

Nature

Local community

Local natural environment

Place

Diagram by the authors

Traditional vernacular architecture and settlements

Relevant and inviting

Vulnerable and disappearing

Culture of animism

Particular way of life

Nature in the space Natural analogues Nature of spaceVisual Connection with Nature Biomorphic Forms and Patterns ProspectNon-Visual Connection with Nature Material Connection with Nature RefugeNon-Rhythmic Sensory Stimuli Complexity and Order MysteryThermal and Airflow Variability Risk/PerilPresence of WaterDynamic and Diffuse Light Connection with Natural Systems

Browning, Ryan and Clancy’s model

Kellert’s model

PlaceRegionSettlementGrid and axisStreet, road, lane and circulationSiteLandscapeBuilt formMaterialConstructionSpatial demarcationMeaning

Nature

Natural feature

Natural shapeand form

Natural analogue, pattern and process

People

Physical connection with nature through systems

VisualSomatosensoryAuditoryOlfactory gustatory

Psychological connection with nature (interpretation of nature)

ProspectRefugeMystery

Risk/peril

Proposed matrix by the authors

REGION & SETTLEMENT

By the first author

REGION & SETTLEMENT

By the first author

REGION & SETTLEMENT

By the first author

SITE & BUILDING

From Zhu Liangwen

SITE & BUILDING

By the first author

SITE & BUILDING

By the first author

SITE & BUILDING

By the first author

LANDSCAPE

By the first author, From Zhu Liangwen

MATERIAL

By the first author

Bridge the studies in “biophilic design” and “vernacular architecture”

Three pillar matrix

Synergy of interrelated factorsA multidisciplinary perspective

Place-basedLocal community-focused

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Author/s:

Li, M; Chau, H-W; Aye, L

Title:

Biophilic Design Features in Vernacular Architecture and Settlements of the Naxi

Date:

2020-07-04

Citation:

Li, M., Chau, H. -W. & Aye, L. (2020). Biophilic Design Features in Vernacular Architecture

and Settlements of the Naxi

Persistent Link:

http://hdl.handle.net/11343/242017

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