Regenerative Territories: Dimensions of Circularity for Healthy Metabolisms

This open access book provides new perspectives on circular economy and space, explored towards the definition of regenerative territories characterised by healthy metabolisms. Going beyond the mere reuse/recycle of material waste as resources, this work aims to understand how to apply circularity principles to, among others, the regeneration of...

Building with Nature & Beyond: Principles for Designing Nature Based Engineering Solutions

This book is based upon the edX MOOCs Engineering: Building with Nature and Beyond Engineering: Building with Nature. The Engineering: Building with Nature MOOC explores the use of natural materials and ecological processes in achieving effective and sustainable hydraulic infrastructure designs, distilling Engineering and Ecological Design...

Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture

Habitat became a hotly debated topic in architecture in the 1950s, when this ecological term was introduced in the avant-garde circles of CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne) and Team 10. Next to rethinking the housing question the notion of habitat brought a profoundly new way to conceive architecture and urban planning. No...

Gardens of Gelderland: Design Research Explorations into Resilient Estate Landscapes

Report of the MSc Landscape Architecture 2019 - 2020, Graduation Lab Resilient Heritage Landscapes. In this graduation lab landscape architecture students from TU Delft explored the landscape assets of private and dispersed heritage properties and developed design strategies to engage them in future-proof landscape development. The focus of the...

The theory of Chris van Leeuwen: Some important elements

Chris van Leeuwen (1920-2005) was a lecturer and later Professor of Ecology at the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology from 1970 until his retirement in 1987. His work not only formed the basis for thinking on sustainable built environments at the Faculty of Architecture, but also formed the basis for national policies...

Studies in ecological psychology: Proceedings of the fourth European workshop on ecological psychology. Zeist, the Netherlands, July 2-5 1996