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M. Hensel, D. Sunguroglu Hensel:
"Embedded Architectures: An Overarching Approach to Compound Sustainability Problems including Urban Climate Mitigation";
in: "Activating Public Space - An Approach for Climate Change Mitigation", A. Battisti, D. Santucci (ed.); Technische Universität München, München, 2020, ISBN: 978-3-948278-08-3, 55 - 64.

This chapter portrays an effort to pursue urban climate mitigation in a larger complex of compound sustainabili-ty problems. In this context we recognize that addressing compound sustainability problems and raising benchmarks within current approaches is limiting. What is key is a chan-ge in attitude, which requires a grounding ethic, a guiding perspective and an open set of design principles. We propose Leopold´s land ethic, actor network theory and a nonhuman perspective as corner stones for an approach that we entitle embedded architectures. This approach seeks for architecture and environment integration along a series of guiding design principles that address the design of en-vironments; interactions between objects, systems and ac-tors; inclusion of natural processes and cultural practices; retaining terrain, considering micro-climate and incorpo-rating ecosystems and agroecology. Furthermore, we intro-duce the concept of new generation ecological prototypes. We briefly discuss a current project in a suburban and rural area and briefly indicate that novel urban configurations can arise from the combination of different lines of inquiry. While the picture painted is much bigger than the theme of urban climate mitigation, the embedded architectures approach might offer a powerful way forward that is adaptable to locally specific conditions and circumstances.

Sustainability; Performance-oriented Architecture; Embedded Architecture

http://dx.doi.org/10.14459/1543270md2020

https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_290712.pdf