Towards the Emerging Paradigm of Artificial Nature: From Ecological Design to Designed Ecology

Abstract:

With respect to the fact that pure nature has been dissolved in the contemporary cities, and therefore, traditional defensive ecological design methods should go beyond the dualism of man-mad and nature towards more broad and more active approaches of ecological analysis and planning. As a part of this revaluating process, this essay investigates the possibility of using landscape - the man-made nature as a structuring medium to construct the new order of urban ecology, and proposes the emerging paradigm of designed ecology to rebuild large scale build environment and to recollect gradually fragmented urban fabrics.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 409-410)
• Pages: 795-799
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.409-410.795
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Jun Zhai
• Keywords: Artificial Nature, Designed Ecology, Ecological Design, Land Mosaics, Landscape, Structuring Medium

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