Dig it! : building bound to the ground

7467, Burhani Book Centre
2025-03-11

Nature's Lack of Design p.13, Introduction p.14, Timeline p.18, From Cave to Canopy p.24, The Ritualization of Life p.27, Domesticating Nature p.32, from Shelter to Shed p.36, From Compound to Community p.48, Establishing Order p.57, Middle-Age Fortifications p.61, The Age of Gunpowder p.73 From Public Space to Private lcon p.81, The City in the Garden p.95, 1964: A Pivotal Moment p.105, From Dichotomy to Holism p.118, Constructing Nature p.125, Endnotes p.139, Building bound to the Ground p.143, Six strategies for reconnecting architecture and landscape, merging building and ground. Bury the building sits below the earth's crust, allowing for an uninterrupted landscape above p.153, Embed Building and landscape share an equal position within the earth's crust. The building is embedded the landscape and the landscape is manipulated to accommodate the building p.389, Absorb The building sits atop the earth's crust, receiving information from the land below. Externally, the building alters the landscape, but within the interior landscape dictates p.619, Spiral The spiral twists the ground upwards or down- wards, multiplying the building's surface area with- out breaking it into discrete floors. The fluidity of movement and continuity of surface offer a way of unifying building, infrastructure and landscape p.755, Carve Space is carved out of the centre of the building to form a new interior landscape. Natural elements of air and light are invited inside and enclosed p.961,
Mimic The building learns from the landscape. It mimics and simulates natural features and systems, terracing, branching and growing. Building and landscape have begun to merge p.1141,
List of figures p.1369, Bibliography p.1383, about the author’s p.1389, Credits and acknowledgements p.1390.