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02. "from site to the territory"
"From
site to territory" Lola Sheppard
1. Meaning
of words.
That
article is talking about meaning of territory. Author show to us nowadays
meaning and the way of thinking how that concepts was changed during ages basis
on some articles, but the most important is article wrote by Carol Burns "On Site"
So, at the
beginning was site: cleared site (natural ground) and constructed site, where
we can start to see natural or human forces working on it. Word "site"
comes from Latin sinere, which means
" let, leave alone or permit". So nowadays that words means that site
is a place or position occupied by something.
Then
another word, quite connected to site, is a territory. If we try to understand
meaning of the word we need to start from the beginning. Terra is a land, terrere means
occupied by violence. To sum up territory is a land which is occupied by
something or in our case, more by someone.
And what
about ecology ? In those days we should remember that sustainability
architecture is very important. But how to connect that sites with ecological
thinking?
2.
"New cartography".
Cartographic
act are depended of information ant potential of the site. Nowadays it is
easier because of we can easily get some more data reports, ecological studies
etc. Burn, on Fuller example, showed two ways of understanding territory:
3. Layered
cartography.
That way of
understanding talking about divided environmental into series of individual
layers and system. One of leading landscape architect in that trend is McHag.
He treat territory as multiple use area. In that case important is also to use
GIS ( Geographic Information System), which
consist of analysis layers of information, every layer of ground is shown
separately.
4.
Networked Territory.
In that way
of thinking territory is a subject of multiple intersecting networks of human
and naturakl ecologies. Site is a part of larger territory which is forced by political,
economic, social and ecological forces. Here important role plays Benton Mackaye
and his "liquid planning". He compares architecture to water drop and
its waysides. "Liquid
planning" consist of water sheds (bundies elastic) and way sides (large
strips near highways). Most important thing in that concept was
possibility of
mobility.
5. Epigenetic Architecture
It is mixed
of higher examples. We can talk that territory exist when in the same time we
have vertical layer territory and horizontal network territory. Here forces, data and information improve
architecture creating another type - operating architecture. Good example of
people using it in their work is MVRDV. Their use data and information to have
a visual and spatial view, it is a tool to design urban and spatial planning in
the same time remember about economic, society, ecology etc. aspects. One of
the examples could be NL Stadt , project of MVRDV office, where divided and
analyze the territory into coast, energy, forest, airport and port zones. And
propose a series of urban speculations and relations to each of this programs.
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