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SUMMARY:Ecological Prototypes | Data-driven Research on Ecological Prototy
 pes for Architecture | Defne Sunguroglu Hensel
DTSTART:20191125T160000
DTEND:20191125T170000
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Defne Sunguroglu Hensel is an architect and researcher and
   director of the practice OCEAN Architecture | Environment. From 2008 t
 o 2018S she was member and board member of the OCEAN Design Research Asso
 ciation . She is currently post-doctoral researcher at the Technical Unive
 rsity in Munich and university lecturer at Vienna University of Technology
 . Previously she taught at the Architectural Association School of Archit
 ecture in London\, Oslo School of Architecture and Design\, Technical Univ
 ersity in Munich\, and University of Technology Sydney.  Primary researc
 h interests include integrating architecture\, landscape architecture\, ur
 ban design\, microclimatology and ecology\; evidence-based research for i
 ntegrative and adaptive design\; data-driven modelling and design\; and ec
 ological prototypes that integrate architecture\, silviculture\, horticult
 ure and agriculture.\n\nUrbanisation is changing the horticultural systems
  that are needed today to meet increasingly complex sustainability require
 ments. A wide range of structures and practices that evolved over centuri
 es as vital part of traditional agricultural/horticultural systems show th
 at human constructions and activities are not inherently harmful for the e
 nvironment. In fact\, they can be central for the protection\, support and
  enhancement of local ecosystems and ecosystem services. These interventio
 ns are some of the earliest prototypes that integrate constructions and ho
 rticulture / agriculture . However\, today‘s greenhouse structures adapt
 ed to address the needs for agricultural intensification and greener citie
 s look and operate very differently from their earlier predecessors. At on
 e extreme\, these are now\, structures enabling agricultural intensificati
 on at a significant environmental cost or building integrated and require 
 high-input. At the other\, they are green structures that are extensive wi
 th no or low ecosystem function. Particular historical agricultural/hortic
 ultural structures enable sustainable cultivation and use of natural resou
 rces\, ranging from a single tree to extensive landscape and urban scale f
 arming with high ecological value. The next generation designs and constru
 ctions lie in between these extremes and address the societal challenges o
 f urbanization and environmental degradation. The aim of the research pres
 ented in this talk is to strengthen urban horticulture as an integrated ar
 chitecture-landscape solution for ecosystem support in human dominated env
 ironments. This is elaborated within today's context of data-driven integ
 rative and adaptive design.\n 
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