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Architecture and Biophilia

Lotus 172 (2021)


The ostentation of an environmental commitment has replaced the effort to set architecture in an urban horizon. How all this can be turned into a real architectural theme is certainly a subject that will require a new cultural engagement, while for the time being we are limiting ourselves to exploring this commitment in an issue of the magazine that examines certain modes of design which, applied essentially outside the big city, look for some opportunities in suburban settings. From this it will be possible to point out the fertility of an approach that, freed from the constraints of the metropolis, develops in a completely new way suggestions coming from the countryside. Given that architects are for the most part shaped by an urban culture, contact with nature triggers in them an out-and-out cult of biophilia, as in the case of the works of the Japanese, the experiments of the French, the new commitment of the Chinese or a certain Italian architecture that is practiced in direct contact with locations.
 

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The Promise of The Countryside
Amateur Architecture Studio
Fuyang Cultural Complex, 
Fuyang, Hangzhou, China, 2012-17
 
DNA_Design and Architecture
Brown Sugar factory, Xing Village,
Zhejiang Province, China, 2015-16
 
DNA_Design and Architecture
Rice Wine Factory, Shantou Village,
Zhejiang Province, China, 2017-19 
 
Rural Urban Framework
Jintai Village Prototype, Jintai Villag, 
Sichuan Province, China, 2012-17
 
Community and Propinquity
Giancarlo De Carlo
Piano di recupero del borgo di Colletta di Castelbianco
Colletta di Castelbianco, Savona, 1994-98
 
Pielruigi Nicolin
Le reti di De Carlo / De Carlo's Networks
 
Balkrishna Doshi
Aranya Low-Cost Housing
Indore, India, 1983-
 
Sandro Rolla
Aranya Low-Cost Housing
 
Italian Country
Ellevuelle architetti
Serra Pi rimessa botanica,
Modigliana, Italia, 2018-19
 
Giuseppe Gurrieri
Casa ECS, 
Scicli, Ragusa, Italia, 2017 
 
ifdesign
Laboratori e Centro socio-educativo,
Erba, Italia, 2019
 
Crotti, De Rossi, Forsans
Porto Ousitano: ala pubblica, piazza e palestra di roccia,
Ostana, Italia, 2009-13
 
Crotti, De Rossi, Dutto
Mizoun de la Villo casa alpina del welfare,
Ostana, Italia, 2019
 
Enrico Scaramellini
Casa FD
Madesimo, Italia, 2014-15
 
Enrico Scaramellini
Pro-tò-ti-po 1.1 variazione della ripetizione,
Valtournenche, Italia, 2019-20
 
Studio Albori
Polo scolastico di Agordo,
Agordo, Italia, 2006-09
 
Maite Garcìa Sanchis
Italian Country
 
Mosbach vs Desvigne
Michel Desvigne Paysagiste
Paris-Saclay,
Plateau de Saclay, Grand Paris, France, 2009-21
 
Gaia Piccarolo
Paris Saclay. L'ordine della campagna /
The Countryside as Framework
 
Mosbach Paysagistes
Lost in Transition,
Ulsan, Korea, 2018
 
Rice & Lipka, Mosbach Paysagistes
Art Mill Museum,
Doha, Qatar, 2016
 
Nina Bassoli
La natura altra / The Other Nature
 
Forest Bathing
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
Inujima Art House Project,
Seto Inland Sea, Japan, 2008-10
 
Office of Ryue Nishizawa
Garden & House,
Tokyo, 2006-11
 
Office of Ryue Nishizawa
Moriyama House,
Tokyo, 2002-05
 
Office of Ryue Nishizawa
Terasaki House,
Kanagawa, Japan, 2011-13
 
Kayoko Ota
Il fenomeno post urbano /
The Posturban Phenomenon
 
Pierluigi Nicolin
Immersioni / Immersions
 
Richard Ingersoll
Per sempre felici e contenti / Ever After