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Garden City by Anna Yudina
A book about the benefits and necessity of integrating nature in the built environment has been published by Thames & Hudson. Featuring 70 projects from around
COMPETITION
National Passivhaus award sees joint winners
Two postgraduate students from the University of Nottingham’s Department of Architecture and Built Environment emerged as joint winners in the UK Passivhaus Student Competition. The schemes of Andres Guamani Rodriguez and Nuansa Atika Kusumastuti achieved equal scores from the judges, who reviewed over 100 entries from five UK universities to select the winners. Andres’ design comprised carbon neutral homes surrounded by public space and green areas, which integrate energy and food generation. Nuansa’s entry is a devel- opment of Passivhaus homes in Bestwood, Nottingham, designed to maximise the occupants’ comfort and minimise energy usage within a connected, inclusive, healthy and self-sufficient community. Yogini Patel, design and research associ- ate with the Passivhaus Trust and a member of the judging panel, commented: “Nuansa’s scheme showcased a simple form factor, which would help meet Passivhaus performance criteria and good considera- tion to shading, whilst judges were impressed with Andres’ clear comparisons of design iterations and development.” The winners will receive their awards at a ceremony which will take place on 24th October at the UK Passivhaus Conference in London.
the world, ‘Garden City’ by Anna Yudina looks at the “increasingly inven- tive ways in which architects and designers are incorporating nature into the built environment”. Packing over 300 illustrations into its 256 pages, the book features a “rich set of examples, from office farms to lightweight systems for growing gardens on vertical surfaces; from ‘tree houses’ as tall as city blocks to a building designed as a living organism”. As Yudina writes, “The garden city is a unique organism in which the natural and the man-made…form one living and breathing whole.” Yudina has curated a number of international architecture and
design exhibitions, including shows on Zaha Hadid and Jakob & MacFarlane. She also wrote ‘Phase: The Architecture of Jakob & MacFarlane and Eske Rex: Silent Action’.
BOOK
Interior Design: A Professional Guide by Jenny Grove
In the latest book from RIBA Publishing – Interior Design: A Professional Guide - designer Jenny Grove “sets out to decipher exactly what it means to be a professional interior designer”, offering what’s claimed to be a definitive guide for both practitioners and clients on how best to navigate this “increasingly inter- disciplinary design practice”. Readers are taken on a journey, giving
them an insight into the projects and specialisms involved while demystifying the role of the interior designer and the skills required to achieve a successful project.
“The book considers interior design in its broadest and purest sense,” said Grove. “How it is now a multi-layered, cross-disciplinary global profession,
which includes design and architecture, cultural, social and business contexts, and how these all impact on decisions and choices.” Topics covered in the book include the profession in its historic and current context, the people, roles and relationships involved in interior design, the skills and knowledge that designers need, the benefits of using a designer, and the importance of a good client-designer relationship. Project examples illustrate key points, pinpoint- ing important project types and showcasing designers working in special- ist fields and include comments from the designers, clients and end-users. Copies of the book are available online from the RIBA Bookshop.
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