Comments on: Integrating design with nature or nature with design https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/integrating-design-with-nature-or-nature-with-design/ Gardenvisit.com Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:48:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: stefan https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/integrating-design-with-nature-or-nature-with-design/#comment-165 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:48:26 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=386#comment-165 sounds like i’ll have to make a pilgrimage to Austria!

and i’m glad you like the hut Christine, thank you very much!

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/integrating-design-with-nature-or-nature-with-design/#comment-164 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:32:35 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=386#comment-164 6. Stefan I get more joy from that beautiful little beach hut…and if it was mine I would not wrap it entirely…but allow the wrapping to reflect its position in the landscape, orientation etc.

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/integrating-design-with-nature-or-nature-with-design/#comment-163 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:51:58 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=386#comment-163 I have been to Bad Blumau http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden/bad_blumau_rolling_hills_landscape and, like most of the visitors so far as I could judge, loved it. The circulation system is a particular success. Cars drive and park under the buildings. Grass-roofed passages connect the buildings. Visitors put on swimsuits and dressing gowns when they get out of bed, then dip in the spa waters and go for breakfast. The architecture is a tad whimsical, but so are folk.

]]> By: stefan https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/integrating-design-with-nature-or-nature-with-design/#comment-162 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:28:34 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=386#comment-162 if we really want green cities, not just cities with a bit of nature tacked on, then the landscape in and around the city has to be given at least equal conseideration.

i find hunterwassers architecture very joyful and expansive, and a welcome antidote to the po faced sterility of much modern architecture. he also has some clever and funny things to say.

if i can, theres a good quote by him on my blog here;

http://shorterwater.blogspot.com/2008/10/in-pub-last-night-desided-we-were-part.html

]]> By: stefan https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/integrating-design-with-nature-or-nature-with-design/#comment-161 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:23:37 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=386#comment-161 if we really want green cities, not just cities with a bit of nature tacked on, then the landscape around and within them has to be given at least equal consideration.

i find hunterwassers buildings very joyful and expansive, and a welcome antidote to the po faced sterility of most modern architecture. thats just imo of course. i know a lot of architects can’t stand him – perhaps that amuses me too! he has some very funny and very clever things to say.

]]> By: christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/integrating-design-with-nature-or-nature-with-design/#comment-160 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:05:12 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=386#comment-160 I’m not against designing the landscape first; although usually the ‘design problem/solution’ will suggest quite logically which (landscape/architecture) should come first. A Botanic garden gives priority naturally enough to the garden, as does a park, an eco-tourism facility etc. Hundertwasser’s architecture is ‘Disneyish’: not sure what you see of value in it?

]]> By: stefan https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/integrating-design-with-nature-or-nature-with-design/#comment-159 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:48:16 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=386#comment-159 an interesting experiment in urban planning would be to design the landscape first and then have the buildings fit in around it. when it comes to combining buildings with nature, the artist Hundertwassers architecture is well worth looking at.

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/integrating-design-with-nature-or-nature-with-design/#comment-158 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:09:51 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=386#comment-158 It is a thousand pities that modern architecture did not take more from Frank Lloyd Wright and less from the other Pioneers, because Wright was always interested in context-sensitive design and the others only occasionally.

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