How do designers of the built environment attempt to make ecological sustainability sensory legible?
Date of Graduation
12-2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Architecture
Degree Level
Undergraduate
Department
Architecture
Advisor/Mentor
Carl Smith
Committee Member/Reader
Alison Turner
Committee Member/Second Reader
Dr. Noah Billig
Abstract
This paper attempts to provide a theoretical framework for making ecosystem function and ecologically sustainable design more perceptible or sensible to people through architecture and the built environment. Design features of the Bertschi School Science Wing and the Bullitt Center in Seattle, Washington are incorporated to illustrate the sensory legibility of ecological sustainability criteria.The criteria are available to designers to help educate a building's occupants on environmentally sustainable design and motivate more sustainable behavior.
Keywords
sustainability, Seattle, ecosystem, hydrology, biodiversity
Citation
Bartow, C. L. (2016). How do designers of the built environment attempt to make ecological sustainability sensory legible?. Architecture Undergraduate Honors Theses Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/archuht/17
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