Responsive Landscapes: Strategies for Responsive Technologies in Landscape Architecture

320 Pages·2015·40.63 MB·English

by  Bradley E Cantrell

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Responsive Landscapes
The sensing, processing, and visualizing that are currently in devel-
opment within the environment boldly change the ways design
and maintenance of landscapes are perceived and conceptualized.
This is the first book to rationalize interactive architecture and respon-
sive technologies through the lens of contemporary landscape
architectural theory.
Responsive Landscapes frames a comprehensive view of design
projects using responsive technologies and their relationship to
landscape and environmental space. Divided into six insightful
sections, the book frames the projects through the terms: elucidate,
compress, displace, connect, ambient, and modify to present and
construct a pragmatic framework in which to approach the integration
of responsive technologies into landscape architecture.
Complete with international case studies, the book explores the
various approaches taken to utilize responsive technologies in
current professional practice. This will serve as a reference for
professionals and academics looking to push the boundaries of
landscape projects and seek inspiration for their design proposals.
Bradley Cantrell is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate
School of Design, USA, and design researcher at Invivia whose
work focuses on the role of computation and media in environmental
and ecological design. Professor Cantrell received his BSLA from the
University of Kentucky and his MLA from the Harvard Graduate School
of Design. He is the author of the ASLA award-winning book Digital
Drawing for Landscape Architecture and Modeling the Environment.
Justine Holzman is a landscape researcher and adjunct Assistant
Professor at the School of Landscape Architecture at the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. She received a BA in Landscape Architec-
ture from the University of California Berkeley and an MLA from the
Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture. Her current research
recognizes the inherent responsive capabilities of landscape through
its materiality and her work in ceramics and digital fabrication has been
exhibited across the United States.
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Responsive
Landscapes
STRATEGIES FOR RESPONSIVE TECHNOLOGIES
IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Bradley Cantrell and
Justine Holzman
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First published 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cantrell, Bradley, author.
Responsive landscapes: strategies for responsive technologies in
landscape architecture/Bradley Cantrell and Justine Holzman. –
First edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Landscape architecture. I. Holzman, Justine, author.
II. Title.
SB472.C252 2016
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ISBN: 978-1-138-79665-2 (pbk)
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I would like to give personal thanks to
my family, Susan, David, and Hannah.
Thank you.—Brad
I would like to thank my parents
Allan and Susan, whose lives are a creative
endeavor, and my sister Shayne, who is a
constant inspiration.—Justine
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CONTENTS

List of figures ix
Foreword by Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno xvii
Acknowledgments xx
1. INTRODUCTION 2
1.1. The paradigm shift 2
1.2. Nature? 7
1.3. Looking forward 15
2. RESPONSIVE TECHNOLOGIES 20
2.1. Technologies 25
2.2. Prototyping 26
2.3. Visualization, mapping, and simulation 28
3. EXPANDING THE FEEDBACK LOOP 34
3.1. Evolving response 35
3.2. Intelligence 41
3.3. Synthesis 45
4. ELUCIDATE 54
4.1. Wind Screen, Höweler + Yoon Architecture,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2011 61
4.2. Dune 4.2, Daan Roosegaarde, Studio Roosegaarde.
Esch, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2010 68
4.3. Nuage Vert“Green Cloud”, Helen Evans and
Heiki Hansen, HeHe. Helsinki, Finland, 2009 75
4.4. Confluence, SCAPE / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE and
The Living. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2012 82
5. COMPRESS 90
5.1. The Theater of Lost Species, Nataly Gattegno and
Jason Kelly Johnson, Future Cities Lab. San Francisco,
California, 2014 97
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5.2. Emergence, Obscura Digital. San Francisco, California,
2013 104
Interview with Garth Williams
5.3. Datascape, Yitian Wang, Yi Liu, Matty A. Williams,
Synthetic Urban Ecologies Studio. West Oakland,
California, 2013 12
6. DISPLACE 122
6.1. Living Light, David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang,
The Living. Seoul, Korea, 2009 130

6.2. Scent Garden, Rodolphe el-Koury, Drew Adams,
James Dixon, and Fadi Masoud. Xi'an, China,
2011 133
6.3. Datagrove, Nataly Gattegno and Jason Kelly Johnson,
Future Cities Lab. San Jose, California, 2012 139
6.4. Pachube, Xively and Thingful, Usman Haque, Usman
Design + Research. Web-based Platform, London, UK,
2008 143
6.5. Local Code, Nicholas de Monchaux. San Francisco,
California, 2012 147
Interview with Nicholas de Monchaux
6.6. Rapid Landscape Prototyping Machine, Alexander
Robinson, University of Southern California Landscape
Morphologies Lab, Owens Lake, California, 2011 159
7. CONNECT 170
7.1. MIMMI, INVIVIA and Urbain DRC. Minneapolis,
Illinois, 2013 175
Interview with Allen Sayegh
7.2. Aviary, Höweler + Yoon and Parallel Development
with sound composition by Erik Carlson. Dubai,
United Arab Emirates, 2013 181
7.3. Sky Ear, Usman Haque, Haque Design + Research.
Fribourg Switzerland and Greenwich, London,
2004 188
7.4. Amphibious Architecture, The Living and The xClinic.
New York City, 2009 194
7.5. H.O.R.T.U.S, Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto,
ecoLogic Studio. London, United Kingdom, 2012 199
7.6. Augmented City 3D, Keiichi Matsuda, London,
UK, 2010 203
Interview with Keiichi Matsuda
8. AMBIENT 216
8.1. Bloom, Doris Sung, Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter, Matthew
Melnyk, dO|Su Studio Architecture. Los Angeles,
California, 2012 219
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8.2. Reef, Rob Ley and Joshua G. Stein. New York City,
2009 226
Interview with Joshua Stein and Rob Ley
8.3. META-follies, Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto,
ecoLogic Studio. Orléans, France, 2013 238
8.4. Epiphyte Chamber, Philip Beesley. Seoul, Korea,
2014 244
9. MODIFY 250
9.1. Open Columns, Omar Khan and Laura Garofalo.
Buffalo, New York, 2007 257
9.2. Smart Highways, Studio Roosegaarde and Heijmans
Infrastructure. Netherlands, 2013 261
Interview with Daan Roosegaarde
9.3. Vacuolar Effluvia Genesis (VEG), Josh Brooks and
Kim Nguyen, LSU Responsive Systems Studio.
Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana, 2011 267
9.4. Pod Mod, Charlie Pruitt, Brennan Dedon and Rob
Herkes, LSU Responsive Systems Studio. Atchafalaya
Basin, Louisiana, 2011 273
9.5. Synthetic Mudscapes, Jeff Carney, Bradley Cantrell,
Liz Williams, LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio.
Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana, 2013 279
Bibliography 286
Index 295
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