BIOPHILIA IN MODERN ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SERBIA

Danica Stankovic, Aleksandra Cvetanovic, Aleksandra Rancic, Vojislav Nikolic, Bojan Stankovic

DOI Number
https://doi.org/10.2298/FUACE190316007S
First page
133
Last page
143

Abstract


Architecture and its natural environment have always been inextricably intertwined throughout the centuries-old history of civil engineering development. Nowadays, when rapid development and accelerated technological innovations take place and the planet becomes everyday endangered as the result of human activities, nature is a main theme and support, in the focus of architectural creation more than ever. Biophilia in architecture represents an innovational method of architectural designing, in which the accent is on the role of nature in the quality of living and working in built areas. An architecture created based on this principle represents the architecture of the future. This architecture is imagined and created as a healthy and productive environment for a modern man, both in terms of indoor space and in the planning of local communities as active and sociable neighborhoods. By using an analytical descriptive methodology and research references, this paper focuses on contemporary experiences and analyzes selected case studies, in order to establish the elements of a possible model for architectural practice in Serbia.

Keywords

architecture, nature, biophilia, designing

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