Description du projet
Révolutionner la vie écologique dans l’espace urbain
La dichotomie homme-nature imposée par l’urbanisation intense contemporaine constitue un facteur crucial de la diminution de l’habitabilité et du bien-être humain dans les villes. Dans le but d’améliorer radicalement les interactions entre l’homme et la nature dans l’environnement urbain, le projet ECOLOPES, financé par l’UE, proposera une approche écosystémique intégrée radicalement nouvelle de l’architecture, également axée sur les humains, les plantes, les animaux et les organismes connexes. Le projet s’attachera à fournir les technologies de base nécessaires pour transformer l’enveloppe du bâtiment en un écolope, un espace de vie multi-espèces pour les types d’habitants précités. ECOLOPES ambitionne de contribuer au développement d’une ontologie des modèles d’information et d’une infrastructure de modélisation et de simulation informatique qui révolutionnera la conception future.
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Urbanisation constitutes a major environmental issue of the 21st century. Within cities, densification, the decrease of green open spaces, and a continued reliance on grey infrastructures result in increasing separation of people from nature and decrease access to ecosystem services. This decreases the liveability of cities and reduces human well-being. Current approaches fall short in providing breakthrough solutions, because they perpetuate the human-nature dichotomy due to anthropocentric design. We propose a radical change for city development: instead of minimizing the negative impact of urbanisation on nature, we aim at urbanisation to be planned and designed such that nature – including humans - can co-evolve within the city. This vision requires a radically new integrated ecosystem approach to architecture that focuses equally on humans, plants, animals, and associated organisms such as microbiota. In ECOLOPES, we propose to develop the technology that will allow to achieve this vision. We will focus on the envelope, the building enclosure. In ECOLOPES, we transform the envelope into an ecolope, a multi-species living space for four types of inhabitants, humans, plants, animals, and microbiota. ECOLOPES will develop the core technologies for designing ecolopes in a systematic way, considering the needs of all habitants. ECOLOPES will make biological knowledge available for the architectural design process, to find architectural solutions that enable synergies and limit conflicts between the inhabitants. The ecolopes designed by this multi-species approach will restore the beneficial human - nature relationships in cities. Key products of ECOLOPES are: (1) ECOLOPES Information Model Ontology that integrates ecological and architectural knowledge, data and models into a data-integrated design recommendation system; (2) ECOLOPES Computational modelling and simulation environment, that is based on the EIM Ontology, to make knowledge available for design.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
80333 Muenchen
Allemagne