Landscape Urbanism @ Brandenburg Technical University

Today, with ecological aspects gaining in importance and the Circular Economy becoming central to the EU strategy, the focus of architecture and urban planning is shifting from the completion of new objects to dealing with cycles.

Landscape architecture has always had such an orientation towards cycles and processes, since it dealt with growing and decaying matter.

At the edges, these disciplines come together; it is here that the interrelationships and metabolisms of the different fields are most effective.

Publication Foundation of the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus @ Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, Chair of Landscape Architecture and Planning, ISBN 978-3-940471-24-6, IKMZ University Library, , Cottbus, Germany, 13 March 2016

Margins / Metabolism

Today, with ecological aspects gaining in importance and the Circular Economy becoming central to the EU strategy, the focus of architecture and urban planning is shifting from the completion of new objects to dealing with cycles. Landscape architecture has always had such an orientation towards cycles and processes, since it dealt with growing and decaying matter. At the edges, these disciplines come together; it is here that the interrelationships and metabolisms of the different fields are most effective.
What makes the margin interesting is its interface function: at the margin, different fields and systems intertwine with their circularities and metabolisms.
The margin in its heterogeneity runs on macro-, meso- and nano-levels. In this multiplicity, the margin is not separating but clearly connecting.
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