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3 Green design is effective biointegration 5 Creation of habitats within built environment

The challenge in ecological design is to achieve the seamless &
benign biointegration of the built environment with nature. This
biointegration is analogous to the systemic biointegration of the Phytovolatilization
prosthetic (artificial) with its host organism (human body). By
analogy, human-made built environment is like a prosthetic. It Phytodegradation Carbon Dioxide
Vertical
has to similarly, successfully & systemically biointegrate with its Green Greening
host organism (the biosphere and the ecosystems). Phytoextraction Roof
Green
• the biosphere Skycourts Green
• biogeochemical cycles Atriums
• natural systems
Green
host Areas At
organism Ground Green
Decomposition Level Links To
effective Hinterland
biointegration
physical &
systemic Green
Phytoremediation of pollutants in the atmosphere. The habitats Ecocell
• built systems
prosthetic • technology constructed to be the carbon sequestration of the aerial pollutant
device • artefacts
• semi-artificial
systems Some greening patterns of habitats are:
analogy
Master planning
Biointegration of prosthetic (human-made built systems) and its host
organism (the ecosystems) “Centralised” “Dispersed” “Stepping stone” “Spine with fingers” “Diagonal steps” “Corridor with fingers”
Green
4 Creating human-made ecosystems by fingers
biomimicry
Ecological
To remake the built environment to create the constructed corridor
ecosystems, design must replicate, emulate & augment the built
environment with the ecosystem attributes. The key ecosystem Built systems
attributes that the built environment must biomimic are the Green Green
following:- roofs Vertical roofs
greening
Green
• biological structure • use and cycling of materials Green Green areas Green links to
• biodiversity connectivity • hydrology atriums At ground skycourts Green hinterland
• provision of ecosystem • symbiosis level ecocell
services • homeostasis preferred
• ecosystems biointegration • food production
• responsiveness to climate • succession Example of green patterns in built systems

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