Furniture Design Ideas

Under conditions such as these, a new approach was needed. Additionally, it was already clear that demographic changes would sooner or later lead to the availability of a substantial number of previously built areas throughout Germany. For this reason as well, model strategies needed to be developed. The most important goals associated with a new […]

In the mid-1980s, due to the increasing decline in mining and heavy indus­try, the Ruhr had reached a point at which ecological and cultural problems were becoming known, in addition to the area’s substantial economic and social problems. The many conventional economic development policies that had been attempted had not shown any of the hoped-for […]

Jorg Dettmar Design and Landscape Architecture, TU Darmstadt Introduction The central theme in urban planning in Germany currently is how to ad­dress the consequences of population decline. These consequences are al­ready being felt in many places, in other areas they are fearfully expected. Shrinking cities and perforated cities are terms to describe the break up […]

One main issue in establishing sustainable urban regions is the manage­ment of land use. New wilderness areas could provide a large-scale pattern for the sustainable development of the whole of the peri-urban landscape. This pattern of new wilderness could help to manage urban development by “pre-structuring” its spatial area because woodlands provide strong ob­stacles to […]

New wilderness in the peri-urban landscape can offer places for different leisure activities. These are different from commercial leisure activities as they offer the visitor a contemplative perspective on nature. From this per­spective, the lack of any obvious design in the new wilderness equals a lack of information. On the other hand, this lack produces […]

The benefits of new wilderness for flora, fauna and habitats are well known, especially for urban brownfields. However, new wilderness could also be an effective strategy for managing the spontaneous vegetation of larger, floodplain areas of river systems. Besides these functions for habitats, new wilderness could also serve for local sustainable production of resources, e. […]

Cultural models for designing new wilderness also demonstrate another principle of design by contrast, that between informal vegetation and a border. An aesthetic perception of informal vegetation is only possible if its border is linear or regular. Examples of this design concept are the lin­ear edges of the informal vegetation of the bosquet areas of […]

Strategies for the design of new wilderness in the peri-urban landscape must address the specific conditions there. For this reason, design methods with a minimum of expenditure and costs are most useful. Some of these methods can be found in the design of models of wild­ness in garden history, landscape architecture and the arts. The […]

The myth of landscape as cultivated land has also changed. The idea of the wild has become part of the cultural concept of landscape. This new wil­derness will become a part of the peri-urban landscape as it meets not only the functional and ecological but also the symbolic needs of urban society. The perception of […]

Growing dimensions of modern agricultural production distinguish the peri-urban landscape from traditional farmland. New urban elements inter­fere with the traditional image of a rural landscape. For this reason, the peri-urban landscape does not relate to the concept of cultivated landscape anymore: it is new scenery containing a mixture of both natural and artifi­cial characteristics. However […]