Articulating Environmental Grounds

摘要

The research conducted by Diploma Unit 2 at the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture has focused on the mediation of both environmental and cultural flows, which involved defining a new aesthetic and social agenda for conventional ecological design strategies. The unit has worked not only on designing environmental mitigation systems, but on also synchronising these with programme-circulation organisations, or 'ground' systems, to alleviate the climatic, circulatory and social stagnation that afflicts many global cities. The goal has been to create a fusion between architecture, infrastructure, landscape and contemporary art by articulating ground systems to mediate climatic forces, in the creation of an 'environmental flow choreography'.