{"id":6836,"date":"2011-04-27T05:55:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T05:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=6836"},"modified":"2011-04-27T05:55:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T05:55:50","slug":"forest-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/forest-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest architecture: work, play, live?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/selgas-cano-architecture-office-selgas-can-arquitecto3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/selgas-cano-architecture-office-selgas-can-arquitecto3-390x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"260\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6838\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/selgas-cano-architecture-office-selgas-can-arquitecto1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/selgas-cano-architecture-office-selgas-can-arquitecto1-390x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"217\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6837\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Working, living and playing in a forest environment: is it possible?<a href=\"http:\/\/cubeme.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/selgas-cano-architecture-office-by-selgas-can-arquitectos\/\">Selgas Cano&#8217;s architectural office<\/a> near Madrid suggests so. Although critiques of the scheme suggest the &#8216;look but don&#8217;t touch&#8217; approach of the sealed glazing is a limitation of the scheme. Natural ventilation is provided by a hinged pulley system at one end of the building.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yeowatzup\/3297044040\/in\/photostream\/\">Telok Blangah Hill Park&#8217;s forest walk constructed 60 feet above the ground <\/a>demonstrates the &#8216;gem&#8217; like qualities of a highly urbanised rainforest. Forest green space is valued and rare. One way to preserve the forest, yet to provide visual and physical recreational access, is to construct a forest walk. New questions arise. Do forests and their inhabitants suffer from noise pollution with large visitor numbers? The forest is home to squirrels, sunbirds, doves, lizards and white-crested laughing thrushes.<\/p>\n<p>And then there is Zaha Hadid&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldarchitecturenews.com\/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.showprojectbigimages&amp;img=5&amp;pro_id=10200\">Capital Hill residence <\/a>located in Barvikha Forest, Russia &#8211; taking forest dwelling to new heights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working, living and playing in a forest environment: is it possible?Selgas Cano&#8217;s architectural office near Madrid suggests so. Although critiques of the scheme suggest the &#8216;look but don&#8217;t touch&#8217; approach of the sealed glazing is a limitation of the scheme. Natural ventilation is provided by a hinged pulley system at one end of the building. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,16,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}