IS THERE AN OIKOS-LOGICAL ARCHITECTURAL SPACE OF THE CITY? A SUSTAINABLE TOWN OR AN ECO-LOGICAL CITY?

Marc, Belderbos
(2017) S-Arch 2017 — Location: Hong Kong (7.June.2017)

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Once all requirements to build in a sustainable way, cities or buildings, essentially guarantying use of renewable energy, renewable materials, and all requirements of sustainability for a low footprint… what has the design of the architecture itself of the city, in his spatial structure, to do with ecology…? This paper will present the requirements to the architecture of the city to be not only ‘sustainable’ but also ‘ecological’. And it will show how these requirements are exiting! So, we will make the difference between sustainable urbanism of towns and ecological architecture of cities. We will defend that the same question would be 'what is a non-anthropocentric architecture of the city?'. The answer we would like to present is that we should first orientate the mind in the direction of a non-anthropocentric structure and then develop the architectural space of the city in this direction. The structure of the anthropocentric mind is very centered on itself at the point that it presents an opposition between inside and outside, an opposition between finite and infinite, and an opposition between surface and depth. It is a closed mind. Eco-logical, or Oikos-logical, or non-anthropocentric architecture of the city is the architecture of a human which is non-centred on itself in a closed mind. This human being, more precisely called the subject has an open architecture in spatial non-opposition between inside and outside, in spatial non-opposition between finite and infinite, in spatial non-opposition between surface and depth. The full paper explains the richness of that.
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Marc, B. (2017). IS THERE AN OIKOS-LOGICAL ARCHITECTURAL SPACE OF THE CITY? A SUSTAINABLE TOWN OR AN ECO-LOGICAL CITY? CONFERENCE PROCEEDING The 4th International Conference S.ARCH 2017 07-09 June 2017 I Hong Kong, p. 507.1 / 507.10. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/227608