Preface
Chapter A: General Premises and Strategies
A1 What is ecodesign? Designing the biointegration of artificial-systems-to-natural-systems
A2 The objective of ecodesign: Design for benign and seamless environmental integration
A3 The basis for ecodesign: The ecosystem concept
A4 Ecomimicry:
Designing based on the ecosystem analogy
A5 The general law and theoretical basis for ecodesign The system-to-environment Interactions Matrix
Chapter B: Design Instructions
B1 Interrogate the premises for the design Deciding to build, to manufacture or not
B2 Differentiate whether the design is for a product (with no fixed abode or with a temporary abode) or for a structure or an infrastructure (both abode or site specific) Determining the strategy towards the useful life span and the site specificity and fixation of the designed system
B3 Determine the level of environmental integration that can be achieved in the design Establishing specific practical limitations
B4 Evaluate the ecological history of the site (for the designed system) Site selection and establishing the overall site strategy
B5 Inventory the designed system’s ecosystem (site-specific design)
Establishing the ecological baseline and context for planning and design to protect the ecosystems and to restore disturbed or degraded ecosystems
B6 Delineate the designed system’s boundary as a human-made or composite ecosystem in relation to the site’s ecosystem Establishing the general extent for ecosystem and biodiversity enhancement
B7 Design to balance the biotic and abiotic components of the designed system Integrating the designed system’s inorganic mass vertically and horizontally with biomass and designing for the rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems
B8 Design to improve existing, and to create new ecological linkages Enhancing the biodiversity of the designed system, conserving existent continuities of ecosystems and creating new ecological corridors and links (eg using ecological land-bridges, hedgerows and enhancing horizontal integration)
B9 Design to reduce the heat-island effect of the built environment on the ecology of the locality Reducing and improving urban micro-climate impacts
B10 Design to reduce the consequences of the various modes of transportation and of the provision of access and vehicular parking for the designed system
B11 Design to integrate with the wider planning context and urban infrastructure of the designed system
B12 Design for improved internal comfort conditions (of the designed system as an enclosure) Designing the built system based on the progressive optimisation of modes (B13 to B17)
B13 Design to optimise all passive-mode (or bioclimatic design) options in the designed system Configuring the built form, its layout and plan, and designing for improved internal comfort conditions without the use of renewable sources of energy and as low-energy design in relation to the climate of the locality
B14 Design to optimise all mixed-mode options in the designed system Designing for improved internal comfort conditions with partial use of renewable sources of energy and as low-energy design in relation to the climate of the locality
B15 Design to optimise all full-mode options in the designed system Designing for improved internal comfort conditions with minimal full use of renewable sources of energy and as low-energy design in relation to the climate of the locality
B16 Design to optimise productive-mode options in the designed system Designing for improved comfort conditions by the independent production of energy andas low-energy design in relation to the climate of the locality
B17 Design to optimise composite-mode options in the designed system Designing for improved internal comfort conditions by composite means with low use ofrenewable sources of energy and as low-energy design in relation to the climate of the locality
B18 Design to internally integrate biomass with the designed system’s inorganic mass (eg by means of internal landscaping, improved indoor air quality (IAQ) t.b considerations, etc)
B19 Design for water conservation, recycling, harvesting, etc Conserving water resources
B20 Design for wastewater and sewage treatment and recycling systems Controlling and integrating human waste and other emissions
B21 Design for food production and independence Designing to promote urban agriculture and permaculture
B22 Design the built system’s use of materials to minimise waste based on the analogy with the recycling properties of the ecosystem Designing for continuous reuse, recycling and eventual biointegration
B23 Design for vertical integration Designing for multilateral integration of the designed system with the ecosystems
B24 Design to reduce light and noise pollution of the ecosystems
B25 Designing the built environment as the transient management of
materials and energy input flows Assessing inputs and outputs through the designed system and their consequences
B26 Designing to conserve the use of non-renewable energy and material resources
B27 Design for the management of outputs from the built environment and their integration with the natural environment Designing to eliminate pollution and for benign biointegration
B28 Design the built system over its life cycle from source to reintegration Designing to enable and facilitate disassembly for continuous reuse, recycling and reintegration
B29 Design using environmentally benign materials, furniture, fittings, equipment (FF&E) and products that can be continuously reused, recycled and reintegrated Assessing the environmental consequences of materials, etc, used in the designed system
B30 Design to reduce the use of ecosystem and biospheric services and impacts on the shared global environment (systemic integration)
B31 Reassess the overall design (ie product, structure or infrastructure) in its totality for the level of environmental integration over its life cycle
Chapter C Other Considerations
C1 What is the green aesthetic?
C2 Issues of practice
C3 The future of ecodesign Prosthetics design as the parallel basis for designing biointegration of artificial-to-natural systems
C4 Appendix 1: Timeline of key international developments relating to the global environment
C5 Appendix 2: Sustainable development
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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