[Music]
[Applause]
designing with ecology that’s the
challenge for a good part of my
professional life I wanted to make our
cities green and my solution is to
remake our cities let’s construct the
ecosystems now what are the attributes
of ecosystems that we need to emulate
and replicate in our cities these are
some of them we need to emulate
ecological but lot you’re structuring of
cities of ecosystems we need to emulate
the ecosystems the biodiversity
provision of ecosystem services by
generation responsive to climate use and
cycling materials connect connectivity
and Nexus the hydrology of cities the
symbiosis between our built environment
the National Environment their
homeostasis in ecosystems food
production and independent food
availability and succession now this is
not a comprehensive list but it’s a
start for me so now the big challenge to
me then nearly 34 years ago was to see
how we can implement these so the first
question the first attribute is the
ecosystem biological structure now
ecologist sees the earth as covered by
this thin film for the biosphere which
were 10,000 meters in height and width
in this basra are where all the life
forms in the world exist and live and
within this Bassfield units in nature
which is the ecosystem which is
ecologist model of of nature now the eco
system consists of body constituents
there was a party constituents acting
together to form a whole and this is
what we must try and emulate and
replicate in what we do now the two
components the Bartok continues
constituents and the abiotic have very
complex relationships as you can see
this diagram but then occur to me
but when I first started in my
professional life it’s what we’re doing
is that everything that we make and do
as architects engineers its physical
synthetic artificial so where is the
organic and the body constituents and so
we started to earth to map the different
ways this could be done you can put on
one location so you can see the first
diagram you can have a spotty
relationship in a second you have a
stepping-stone relationship but the
ideal relationship between the body
constituents and their a body
constituents
it’s the weaving pattern that you see in
the last diagram and so this was the
first experiment that I did maybe about
30 30 35 years ago and this is the 34
story building I started with vegetation
buildings and I love this image because
it is emblematic of for me what a green
architecture should look like it should
be non pristine it should be fuzzy it
should be indeterminate and after my
friend says it looks really hairy
so the second proposition is now beyond
just putting vegetation and and party
constituents we have to go beyond that
and so what to try to do what I try to
do is to enhance the biodiversity
through putting the vegetation because
what we did what we as human beings do
so we simplify nature we reduce it down
this is a project we finished about 6
months ago and you can see the
vegetation wonderful standing on the
ground still to be growing but you use
this as an opportunity the Hansa
biodiversity for all our projects now
what we do is that we prepare a
biodiversity matrix which is something
like this and the biodiversity matrix
starts with identifying the habitats we
created in development the habitats
could be on the ground it could be in
planters it could be in the in inside
the building it could be on walls and so
the first thing we do in ecological
design isn’t is to establish different
habitats within the project the next is
to identify the native fauna that we
want to bring back they are not
hazardous to human beings for these
habitats but having identified the list
of on a particular locality and we got
very careful that these are not invasive
species the next is to bring back the
fauna the flora that will attract the
fauna and so having done this the next
stage is the vendors to design see how
these two into inter interact within
this matrix and from there we design the
landscape condition for the for the
species to survive over the seasons of
the year and so this waving a has a
biodiversity of off locality
now that’s for a building for just
medium rice now how do you do this for a
high-rise building and so this approach
in which you’re working on now these are
the different habitats on the high-rise
building and then we’re starting to look
at the proximity of the green areas
within the site you look at the the
green areas which is near at the site
and from there we started to prepare the
biodiversity matrix that you saw before
and then what we did what we’ve done is
to stratify the habitats in the
high-rise that means for the lower part
was right that this the species that we
want to bring back a dragonflies
then next will be the butterfly zone the
next would be the songbird zone and
finally at the upper part we have the
migratory birds so so these are they had
the the the the de fauna they want to
bring back and then we start to identify
the the flora the
bring them attractive the these fauna
into the those happy parts and this
another scheme that we working on now
where we had a spiraling version of the
habitats climbing up the building the
next is ecological negativity and Nexus
everything in nature is connected in
fact everything we do is connect even if
you flip a switch is connected to
everything that’s the impact on nature
and so now in how do you know what do we
do as human beings that we chop up the
landscape that’s like telling a counter
burger we we change a homogeneous
ecosystem into patches and so what we
try to do as architects is to repair
nature to make nature whole again now
what happens if you have two patches of
nature which is bifurcated by a road
then what happens you bridge across it
and you vegetate it then this is what we
call eco bridge then by doing so you
enhanced biodiversity of the location
now this is a project we design in
Bangalore which we collected all the
species along the edge of the
development which is next to first
reserve and then we’ll stretch across
the site that we call this a green
infrastructure and that’s the first
thing we do when we design master plan
having done the green infrastructure we
lit the roads then we Sun discover oh
dear the Rose bifurcate our
infrastructure and so so this is what we
use to rectify this half an inca bridge
that connects the green area from one
part of the site leader of the popular
site and this one eco bridge can look
like now the incubation location is
crucial you can’t you cannot just really
really put anywhere along the road you
have to check these species on both
sides of the off the road due to
building a bridge now vertical connected
e is that is in this project that we
design which is a data center for a
scandi david company the vegetation
starts from one corner goes up comes
across the one side goes two bags and
goes to the right-hand side and comes
back down again now this is the the
cassettes the system that we use as a
cassette system we put a cassette next
to the fresh air intake so that the
vegetation actually acts as a first
level of air field
the scrubs the before enters that
conditioning system
another project this time is the last
pattern which is the intertwining of
vegetation so this is a project where
with every facade we climate won’t flow
this so is a renfa start that goes all
the way around the building and next to
the renfa sod there’s a walkway in which
people could service the the planters
and the vegetation but we constantly
near linear park and it was stretched
this lena park throughout this whole
building it is about one or three
kilometers the next is the hydrology
because what is what life is about when
the Sun was looking to the planets the
first thing look at is there water in
that planet because that’s water that’s
organic life and and this is a this is a
schematic of what a hydrological cycle
could be both internal within the built
environment and external but anything
that’s not outside we should they bring
it back to the ground water should not
be drained because once goes to drain it
goes to rivers and the rivers has gone
through the seasons gone forever so we
need to bring it back to the ground we
need to recycle we need to harvest it I
mean it closer loop as much as possible
and that some of the methods for doing
this and so within the scheme for the
breakwater we have constructed wetland
and it’s the inset of a mechanical
system so that the the black water goes
through a series of ponds and certain
types of treatment ponds so by timing
regional asteroid it is almost potable
the next one ecosystem provision of
ecosystem services
now ecosystem services and what nature
does for us for free without human
intervention
therefore the synthesis the question of
contaminating gases now this is so
complex that it’s almost it is virtually
it’s actually impossible for technology
to imitate it and you emulate it and so
what do we do because we’re decreasing
deforestation work daily losing the
opportunity for the plans to break
ecosystem services
and so the approach is to augment milk
systems about the constituents now those
back in this diagram what we need to do
is to try and
augmented in such a way that we collect
all the species that existing and
through it and use X years of eto
ecologic fingers they’re weaves the
vegetation and the the body considers
into the a pata constituents and so you
start with eco fluster infrastructure
and then we try and weave the two
together as in this pattern and on the
left-hand side this this is the vertical
cities which is collected by this
corridor stretched by fingers into the
built environment and then a right-hand
side a built environment so it’s just
like two hands or clasp we’re trying to
integrate the two together now this is a
scheme that we did in the island of
réunion which is off the coast of
Madagascar and that you know we have a
series of ecological fingers going from
the left hand side to right hand side
and they and the built environment for
right hand side going all the way down
that’s the view from leaves here looking
down the green infrastructure going into
the hills as a series of creations and
the and the and the a body constituents
flowing down in between these and so
that is one way of bringing the
ecological constituents as close as
possible to the a body constituents and
we worked up about 30 meters spacing
between one and the other now again we
have an issue of bifurcation for ROS
going across the entire site so instead
of having a Eco bridge what we have here
then is an eco undercroft that goes
underneath the road and so here the
vegetation continues this length is
connected and goes underneath the road
all the way up to the hills next would
be the responsible responsive mr.
climate because eco systems respond to
climate at different biomes
along in the planet and so at different
climatic zone there different species
type and this shows the different
climatic zones in a plan you can see
there’s a whole variety of climates
within those the the within the planet
we start to develop a system of what we
call low energy low carbon design and
these are as different methods of doing
this but let me just look at one which
is the passive mode now the die
it shows a straight line going across
which is the what engineer us to do
consistent temperature committee
consisted humidity consistent edge
rather whole year where this winter
summer or midseason now and that doesn’t
line the dashed line shows the chronic
conditions on the outside which is in
like in the temperate zone it is the
Jellicle winter in a very hot summer but
if we adopt those techniques called back
let meditating by climatic techniques as
in that red box we can actually improve
the comfort condition in the new red
line without any technology without any
mechanical electrical systems and so the
idea is what I call an umbrella
architecture umbrellas an incredible
cybernetic device depending where the
direction the width or the grain or the
Sun is you can angle it a direct that
umbrella in which you can keep out the
rain the wind and Sun and you make
yourself comfortable underneath the
umbrella now my dream my golden chalice
is to build an umbrella building which
is automated by haven’t been able to do
that yet and so I start to do a serious
experiments but you want to call
umbrella buildings now this was early
beliefs we did where this time we put a
Louisville umbrella or with this house
now the little umbrellas in the Morning
Sun keeps out the hot midday Sun angle
to keep us and keeps out the afternoon
Sun and if ideally should be orientated
north south but in this instance it is
not exactly not because of this eye
condition and then the the serene foods
used as the event of cooling device to
bring cool air into the building and
there’s a floor plan of building and the
energy consumption is considerably lower
than what it is for a normal house next
would be by integration now this is
another complex challenge if we’re able
to by integrate everything that we do we
make and we build and our production
systems seamlessly and benignly with the
national environment there won’t be any
net in there won’t be any environmental
issues and so finally violent
integration
is actually the crucial aspect of eager
to design now these are the four
infrastructures now most people are
aware of the green a lot of architects
and planners do that now a lot of
architects aware of the blue
infrastructure on the left-hand side but
a human society is an infrastructure as
well so social economic political
institutional educational systems from
infrastructure that that that determines
what fiscal systems we build and then on
top of that technologies infrastructure
which is the roads the drains the
infrastructures and the structures and
and the even the artifacts that we make
are the gray items and ecology design or
saving the world if you like my
integration is to bring all these
together into a whole in a design and so
back to the scheme that we did in
Bangalore this is the mix the weaving
and all these four infrastructures into
a single whole now materials now
materials actually has a significant
impact on the environment but when we
design for materials we’re not looking
at just the build system and the
biosphere because you know in this in
this general Systems Theory model with
built system and this relationship with
environment it takes the inputs of
materials energy and us people and then
gives our uppers of energy materials and
the build system itself becomes a waste
identities of life and so to close the
loop that’s what nature does in
ecosystems we need to look at the
impacts of the build system at its first
creation or the first impact the impact
on during its operational and impact and
dentistry useful life and we need to
close the loop I bring it back into the
built environment as much as possible or
we seamlessly in benignly integrated
back into the into the into the
biosphere now to implement this requires
a change in mindset and they’re just
household recycling it’s not enough it
has to be done at the infrastructure
scale and so this is my challenge today
this is the story of my professional
life how to make our cities become
constructing new systems
thank you very much
[Applause]
[Music] [Applause]
[Applause]
designing with ecology that’s the
challenge for a good part of my
professional life I wanted to make our
cities green and my solution is to
remake our cities let’s construct the
ecosystems now what are the attributes
of ecosystems that we need to emulate
and replicate in our cities these are
some of them we need to emulate
ecological but lot you’re structuring of
cities of ecosystems we need to emulate
the ecosystems the biodiversity
provision of ecosystem services by
generation responsive to climate use and
cycling materials connect connectivity
and Nexus the hydrology of cities the
symbiosis between our built environment
the National Environment their
homeostasis in ecosystems food
production and independent food
availability and succession now this is
not a comprehensive list but it’s a
start for me so now the big challenge to
me then nearly 34 years ago was to see
how we can implement these so the first
question the first attribute is the
ecosystem biological structure now
ecologist sees the earth as covered by
this thin film for the biosphere which
were 10,000 meters in height and width
in this basra are where all the life
forms in the world exist and live and
within this Bassfield units in nature
which is the ecosystem which is
ecologist model of of nature now the eco
system consists of body constituents
there was a party constituents acting
together to form a whole and this is
what we must try and emulate and
replicate in what we do now the two
components the Bartok continues
constituents and the abiotic have very
complex relationships as you can see
this diagram but then occur to me
but when I first started in my
professional life it’s what we’re doing
is that everything that we make and do
as architects engineers its physical
synthetic artificial so where is the
organic and the body constituents and so
we started to earth to map the different
ways this could be done you can put on
one location so you can see the first
diagram you can have a spotty
relationship in a second you have a
stepping-stone relationship but the
ideal relationship between the body
constituents and their a body
constituents
it’s the weaving pattern that you see in
the last diagram and so this was the
first experiment that I did maybe about
30 30 35 years ago and this is the 34
story building I started with vegetation
buildings and I love this image because
it is emblematic of for me what a green
architecture should look like it should
be non pristine it should be fuzzy it
should be indeterminate and after my
friend says it looks really hairy
so the second proposition is now beyond
just putting vegetation and and party
constituents we have to go beyond that
and so what to try to do what I try to
do is to enhance the biodiversity
through putting the vegetation because
what we did what we as human beings do
so we simplify nature we reduce it down
this is a project we finished about 6
months ago and you can see the
vegetation wonderful standing on the
ground still to be growing but you use
this as an opportunity the Hansa
biodiversity for all our projects now
what we do is that we prepare a
biodiversity matrix which is something
like this and the biodiversity matrix
starts with identifying the habitats we
created in development the habitats
could be on the ground it could be in
planters it could be in the in inside
the building it could be on walls and so
the first thing we do in ecological
design isn’t is to establish different
habitats within the project the next is
to identify the native fauna that we
want to bring back they are not
hazardous to human beings for these
habitats but having identified the list
of on a particular locality and we got
very careful that these are not invasive
species the next is to bring back the
fauna the flora that will attract the
fauna and so having done this the next
stage is the vendors to design see how
these two into inter interact within
this matrix and from there we design the
landscape condition for the for the
species to survive over the seasons of
the year and so this waving a has a
biodiversity of off locality
now that’s for a building for just
medium rice now how do you do this for a
high-rise building and so this approach
in which you’re working on now these are
the different habitats on the high-rise
building and then we’re starting to look
at the proximity of the green areas
within the site you look at the the
green areas which is near at the site
and from there we started to prepare the
biodiversity matrix that you saw before
and then what we did what we’ve done is
to stratify the habitats in the
high-rise that means for the lower part
was right that this the species that we
want to bring back a dragonflies
then next will be the butterfly zone the
next would be the songbird zone and
finally at the upper part we have the
migratory birds so so these are they had
the the the the de fauna they want to
bring back and then we start to identify
the the flora the
bring them attractive the these fauna
into the those happy parts and this
another scheme that we working on now
where we had a spiraling version of the
habitats climbing up the building the
next is ecological negativity and Nexus
everything in nature is connected in
fact everything we do is connect even if
you flip a switch is connected to
everything that’s the impact on nature
and so now in how do you know what do we
do as human beings that we chop up the
landscape that’s like telling a counter
burger we we change a homogeneous
ecosystem into patches and so what we
try to do as architects is to repair
nature to make nature whole again now
what happens if you have two patches of
nature which is bifurcated by a road
then what happens you bridge across it
and you vegetate it then this is what we
call eco bridge then by doing so you
enhanced biodiversity of the location
now this is a project we design in
Bangalore which we collected all the
species along the edge of the
development which is next to first
reserve and then we’ll stretch across
the site that we call this a green
infrastructure and that’s the first
thing we do when we design master plan
having done the green infrastructure we
lit the roads then we Sun discover oh
dear the Rose bifurcate our
infrastructure and so so this is what we
use to rectify this half an inca bridge
that connects the green area from one
part of the site leader of the popular
site and this one eco bridge can look
like now the incubation location is
crucial you can’t you cannot just really
really put anywhere along the road you
have to check these species on both
sides of the off the road due to
building a bridge now vertical connected
e is that is in this project that we
design which is a data center for a
scandi david company the vegetation
starts from one corner goes up comes
across the one side goes two bags and
goes to the right-hand side and comes
back down again now this is the the
cassettes the system that we use as a
cassette system we put a cassette next
to the fresh air intake so that the
vegetation actually acts as a first
level of air field
the scrubs the before enters that
conditioning system
another project this time is the last
pattern which is the intertwining of
vegetation so this is a project where
with every facade we climate won’t flow
this so is a renfa start that goes all
the way around the building and next to
the renfa sod there’s a walkway in which
people could service the the planters
and the vegetation but we constantly
near linear park and it was stretched
this lena park throughout this whole
building it is about one or three
kilometers the next is the hydrology
because what is what life is about when
the Sun was looking to the planets the
first thing look at is there water in
that planet because that’s water that’s
organic life and and this is a this is a
schematic of what a hydrological cycle
could be both internal within the built
environment and external but anything
that’s not outside we should they bring
it back to the ground water should not
be drained because once goes to drain it
goes to rivers and the rivers has gone
through the seasons gone forever so we
need to bring it back to the ground we
need to recycle we need to harvest it I
mean it closer loop as much as possible
and that some of the methods for doing
this and so within the scheme for the
breakwater we have constructed wetland
and it’s the inset of a mechanical
system so that the the black water goes
through a series of ponds and certain
types of treatment ponds so by timing
regional asteroid it is almost potable
the next one ecosystem provision of
ecosystem services
now ecosystem services and what nature
does for us for free without human
intervention
therefore the synthesis the question of
contaminating gases now this is so
complex that it’s almost it is virtually
it’s actually impossible for technology
to imitate it and you emulate it and so
what do we do because we’re decreasing
deforestation work daily losing the
opportunity for the plans to break
ecosystem services
and so the approach is to augment milk
systems about the constituents now those
back in this diagram what we need to do
is to try and
augmented in such a way that we collect
all the species that existing and
through it and use X years of eto
ecologic fingers they’re weaves the
vegetation and the the body considers
into the a pata constituents and so you
start with eco fluster infrastructure
and then we try and weave the two
together as in this pattern and on the
left-hand side this this is the vertical
cities which is collected by this
corridor stretched by fingers into the
built environment and then a right-hand
side a built environment so it’s just
like two hands or clasp we’re trying to
integrate the two together now this is a
scheme that we did in the island of
réunion which is off the coast of
Madagascar and that you know we have a
series of ecological fingers going from
the left hand side to right hand side
and they and the built environment for
right hand side going all the way down
that’s the view from leaves here looking
down the green infrastructure going into
the hills as a series of creations and
the and the and the a body constituents
flowing down in between these and so
that is one way of bringing the
ecological constituents as close as
possible to the a body constituents and
we worked up about 30 meters spacing
between one and the other now again we
have an issue of bifurcation for ROS
going across the entire site so instead
of having a Eco bridge what we have here
then is an eco undercroft that goes
underneath the road and so here the
vegetation continues this length is
connected and goes underneath the road
all the way up to the hills next would
be the responsible responsive mr.
climate because eco systems respond to
climate at different biomes
along in the planet and so at different
climatic zone there different species
type and this shows the different
climatic zones in a plan you can see
there’s a whole variety of climates
within those the the within the planet
we start to develop a system of what we
call low energy low carbon design and
these are as different methods of doing
this but let me just look at one which
is the passive mode now the die
it shows a straight line going across
which is the what engineer us to do
consistent temperature committee
consisted humidity consistent edge
rather whole year where this winter
summer or midseason now and that doesn’t
line the dashed line shows the chronic
conditions on the outside which is in
like in the temperate zone it is the
Jellicle winter in a very hot summer but
if we adopt those techniques called back
let meditating by climatic techniques as
in that red box we can actually improve
the comfort condition in the new red
line without any technology without any
mechanical electrical systems and so the
idea is what I call an umbrella
architecture umbrellas an incredible
cybernetic device depending where the
direction the width or the grain or the
Sun is you can angle it a direct that
umbrella in which you can keep out the
rain the wind and Sun and you make
yourself comfortable underneath the
umbrella now my dream my golden chalice
is to build an umbrella building which
is automated by haven’t been able to do
that yet and so I start to do a serious
experiments but you want to call
umbrella buildings now this was early
beliefs we did where this time we put a
Louisville umbrella or with this house
now the little umbrellas in the Morning
Sun keeps out the hot midday Sun angle
to keep us and keeps out the afternoon
Sun and if ideally should be orientated
north south but in this instance it is
not exactly not because of this eye
condition and then the the serene foods
used as the event of cooling device to
bring cool air into the building and
there’s a floor plan of building and the
energy consumption is considerably lower
than what it is for a normal house next
would be by integration now this is
another complex challenge if we’re able
to by integrate everything that we do we
make and we build and our production
systems seamlessly and benignly with the
national environment there won’t be any
net in there won’t be any environmental
issues and so finally violent
integration
is actually the crucial aspect of eager
to design now these are the four
infrastructures now most people are
aware of the green a lot of architects
and planners do that now a lot of
architects aware of the blue
infrastructure on the left-hand side but
a human society is an infrastructure as
well so social economic political
institutional educational systems from
infrastructure that that that determines
what fiscal systems we build and then on
top of that technologies infrastructure
which is the roads the drains the
infrastructures and the structures and
and the even the artifacts that we make
are the gray items and ecology design or
saving the world if you like my
integration is to bring all these
together into a whole in a design and so
back to the scheme that we did in
Bangalore this is the mix the weaving
and all these four infrastructures into
a single whole now materials now
materials actually has a significant
impact on the environment but when we
design for materials we’re not looking
at just the build system and the
biosphere because you know in this in
this general Systems Theory model with
built system and this relationship with
environment it takes the inputs of
materials energy and us people and then
gives our uppers of energy materials and
the build system itself becomes a waste
identities of life and so to close the
loop that’s what nature does in
ecosystems we need to look at the
impacts of the build system at its first
creation or the first impact the impact
on during its operational and impact and
dentistry useful life and we need to
close the loop I bring it back into the
built environment as much as possible or
we seamlessly in benignly integrated
back into the into the into the
biosphere now to implement this requires
a change in mindset and they’re just
household recycling it’s not enough it
has to be done at the infrastructure
scale and so this is my challenge today
this is the story of my professional
life how to make our cities become
constructing new systems
thank you very much
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