"The New Pastoralism" is an exploration of a romantic 'green'
and technological architecture that heals the traditional cut
between the city dweller and nature. New, gently engaging
architectures are arising that employ biomimetics, hydroponics,
cybernetic feedback systems, micro ecologies and traditional
construction methods with natural materials and vertical
landscapes. These are used to create small, subtle, alive spaces
that help remind us of our humanity. These soft constructions
fulfil a hard-wired human desire to be connected to and delighted
by nature. Unlike our ancestors' romantic love of the dramatic
power of landscape, these spaces offer a more gentle and
artificially tamed nature of 'pastoral' delight. For centuries,
Western culture looked to landscape and the pastoral in particular
as a setting for the escapist desires to reconnect with the land
and elements. More recently we looked to inner-city underbellies
for the same romantic freedoms and wilderness. But these exotic
desires are now evolving into more distilled and gentler
experiences. The use of the skies, planting, water, wildlife and
the seasons is becoming subtly incorporated into building layouts
and onto building surfaces to offer a subtle new interface with our
primordial desire to reconnect with nature
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