ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Termite, Sustainable Design, Some Cities
31 Mar 2013
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Symbolism of nature"s physical traits- pillars to prop up houses/temples and other built structures. Baobab house is an example of people taking advantage of nature"s. It looks like a house made of tree, resembles hobbit house. People also build houses that mimic caves- biomimicry. There is still a mass of people who live in cave-like houses. Rice paddy field is a sophisticated system of water, maintenance and community. E. g. the uruk-warka design looks like a cell- with a center, things around it and bounded by a wall type barrier. There is a core of services and functions that a cell would carry out. The boundary is very important for a human cell for internal coherence and decides what is going to be part and not a part of the cell. Being organized towards the center because it is central. When communities lose communal glue is when people start having doors.
