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surprisingly, as a result, some of the more enlightened clients are placing genuine biophilic design higher up their wish list, according to Paul Stoller, managing director of Atelier Ten in Australia. He tells FX: ‘Tere is a heightened appreciation for a well-designed place and part of that is connecting people to the natural environment.’ Bundanon Art Museum and Bridge is one such project recently completed together with Kerstin Tompson Architects (see case study). He says: ‘It’s a nice example of beautiful, thoughtful architecture which, almost inherently, has a
connection to its local place as well as nature.’ Having been involved right in the early workshop stages of concept design, he says: ‘We spent a lot of time talking not just about natural materials or vegetation on the site, but also habitat for indigenous ecosystems. It is home for animals by design, it is home for landscapes that thrive in the local conditions.’ Tis message of habitats, rather than mere planting, is just as important to take to clients in urban centres, says Stoller: ‘We very much talk about habitat as a key project outcome. In urban environments it’s very much a trade-off.
Every scrap of sky-facing surface is contested territory, but we’re increasingly referencing in our projects roof space, terrace space and ground space for habitats.’
And people are listening, says Stoller, not just to the case for more enlightened planting and landscaping but also to the arguments for shared district energy plant ‘because you can consolidate your cooling towers and have fewer towers, which allows you more roof space for habitat and for amenity. It is a much more meaningful discussion now that we are more focused on good biophilic outcomes.’
provides surface water drainage for the regeneration of adjacent vacant and derelict sites, extending blue-green ‘fingers’ out from the canal into several water management areas, which will support new development schemes for housing, education and business.
The restoration of this site has transformed people’s engagement, with locals using it for both leisure
and transit through the lush and leafy routes which have opened up between neighbourhoods. It is one of the first, highly successful phases in a wider £500m investment programme that the city hopes will help reduce disease and improve prospects for a healthy, active and longer life in an area famous for some of the UK’s worst health statistics.
Client Scottish Canals
Lead designer, landscape management and ecology LUC
Area 17ha Cost £7.5m
Quantity Surveyor Thomas and Aamson
Civil and Structural Engineer DSSR
SUDS Designer AECOM
Contractor Mackenzie Construction Ltd.
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