Learning From
As global urbanization accelerates toward a projected population peak of 10.2 billion by 2100, traditional horizontal city models have become increasingly unsustainable. This paper proposes the High-Performance City and the linear urban system of Strings as a necessary evolution in urban design that synthesizes the social cohesion of the village with the economic intensity of the city to create high-density, vibrant environments that significantly reduce the global ecological footprint.
The Nature of Everything
The changing relationship between nature and enclosed space has interested DMAA for many years. In the projects for the “H.O.M.E. House” and for a residential building in Bremen they interpret the subject by using the motif of nature as expanded living space.
Plantopia
We are in #PlantFever! For this guest article disguised as an interview, Evalie Wagner relates the social media phenomenon the #GardensOfInstagram to her own artistic work. In doing so, she shows that this stage-managed approach to flora is far more deeply rooted in our culture than a fleeting glimpse of our social media feeds would lead us to expect.
Weather Report
We spoke with Dr. Marc Olefs, Head of the Climate Research Department in the fields of data, methods and models at the ZAMG – Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, about the relationship between architecture, the weather and the climate and the possibilities that we have for modelling the climate of tomorrow.