From Digital Cities to Biocities: Harnessing the Power of the Digital Revolution to Reinvent the Urban Ecology Model | Zendy

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From Digital Cities to Biocities: Harnessing the Power of the Digital Revolution to Reinvent the Urban Ecology Model

Author(s) -

Guallart Vicente

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

architectural design

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 1554-2769

pISSN - 0003-8504

DOI - 10.1002/ad.2571

Subject(s) - architecture , china , digital revolution , power (physics) , architectural engineering , ecology , engineering , civil engineering , geography , archaeology , telecommunications , biology , physics , quantum mechanics

The transition from 20th‐century fossil‐fuel consumption and pollution to green, carbon‐negative cities is aided not just by biophilic design, but also by digital techniques. Vicente Guallart , former Chief Architect of Barcelona and founder of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and Fab Lab Barcelona, illustrates this new natural/digital urban synthesis with his own practice's competition‐ winning design for a green district, Xianmihu, in Shenzhen, China.

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