Deep Dive: Reconnecting with Nature
summary
Cities need 400,000 new homes while 75% of people live in cities and spend 80–90% of their time indoors, so the session pushes concrete fixes: a PV shading canopy installed above an underground garage last month, a living pavilion grown so trees alone support a roof, and a modeling tool (Ecolops) that links architectural and ecological simulation to predict species and human benefits. Prototyping uses laser scanning and machine learning and circular materials like 14 m² hop panels (pilot in Mannheim) aiming to scale.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Future of urban living
- 3:12Indoor comfort culture critique
- 7:53Indigenous building with nature
- 11:09Cities for human and ecological interaction
- 14:44Animal-aided design for biodiversity
- 18:40Circular acoustic panels from waste
- 22:14Systems thinking for urban transformation
- 27:12Community-driven renewal in NOA
- 40:32Closing remarks