The traditional multi joint mechanical serial parallel structure biomimetic fish has lower propul... more The traditional multi joint mechanical serial parallel structure biomimetic fish has lower propulsive efficiency, more energy transmission loss, more complicated mechanical design and control algorithms because of more mechanical joints. While the flexible body has infinite degrees of freedom, and the energy in it is stored by elasticity and inertia, it is more viscous than that of multi joints. This project studies the principle of carangidae fish in carangidae carp, takes it as the bionic object, and designs a biomimetic fish with a flexible body tail structure to improve propulsive efficiency. This study explores the biomimetic fish propulsion speed and caudal aspect ratio, caudal oscillation frequency, modal distribution curve, and optimizes a parameter set of fish tail that can achieve effective promotion. So it is good for the exploration of the development of high speed, high efficiency, high maneuverability of bionic propeller swing on theoretical basis and practical aspects.
The integration of research-based knowledge into landscape architecture and landscape design is o... more The integration of research-based knowledge into landscape architecture and landscape design is often demanded by society as well as by landscape architects. However, this might include methodological challenges, as often becoming evident in many students’ projects. In order to overcome these challenges, and support students and teachers in the navigation towards landscape design based on research, we have compiled this guide. It aims to support in the making of informed choices about the approach, in the methodological description, and in finding relevant literature for support and further reading. We provide an introduction to the challenges, present theoretical models and palettes of approaches and discuss the application of these. An important point to make is that there is not one way to include research-based knowledge into design, but several. Although there is much knowledge on the subject, there is also a need to test and discuss the proposed approaches and their usability ...
TRANSLATING HARBOURSCAPES SITE-SPECIFIC DESIGN APPROACHES IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HARBOUR TRANSF... more TRANSLATING HARBOURSCAPES SITE-SPECIFIC DESIGN APPROACHES IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HARBOUR TRANSFORMATION This thesis investigates site-specific design approaches in contemporary harbour transformation. The integration into the urban fabric of disused harbour areas, those spatial leftovers of late 19thand 20th-century heavy industry, is a major task of contemporary urban planning. Common solutions for these areas feature generic office complexes, luxury housing, shopping centres and leisure facilities, built on the tabula rasa of the former harbours, only preserving the occasional old object from a harbour for folkloristic reasons. This research explores more site-specific ways to transform harbours, where certain design approaches integrate the site into the urban fabric by making use of that which already exists on a harbour site. The current understanding of site, design and site specificity is discussed and updated to define the analytical framework for the thesis’s case study. ...
Landscape architects today love run-down areas, the challenge of temporary projects, hands-on act... more Landscape architects today love run-down areas, the challenge of temporary projects, hands-on activities, working with people, and the aesthetics of the transitory. They often experience themselves ...
Danish visual artist Kirstine Autzen (www.autzenvisual.com) portrayed Superkilen as it was in Sum... more Danish visual artist Kirstine Autzen (www.autzenvisual.com) portrayed Superkilen as it was in Summer 2017. For Autzen, photographing a public space means taking in impressions, and at the same time making images that convey these impressions in a strictly visual manner: grabbing the camera precisely when someone or something does something. Autzen states that photographing in itself is a kind of analysis. She traversed the area several times, waiting for the opportunity to photograph a specific situation with, for instance, the right light or passers-by, and in doing so, she starts to feel at home and to see the design as an underlying structure or intention. The choice of when and how to hit the shutter is to her, in essence, normative and ostensive: 'THIS I like'; 'THAT I don't like' , pointing and pointing out through the photographic image. The images then speak of positive and negative experiences, and are a way of declaring 'authorship' and to indicate a norm for engaging with the world. The images of Superkilen presented here were made with no client in mind. They are about the relationship between the Superkilen design and its surroundings, and the way people were using it. Autzen noted seeing people everywhere: going through on their bikes, hanging out informally, playing. Though feeling sad about the poor maintenance, the intense use by a wide variety of people was uplifting. Autzen sums up her experience: "Superkilen now feels like well-worn sneakers that lost their factory colours: worn out, but ready for real love.
Mobilizing the potentials of design-based research (thinking-through-making, reflection-inaction)... more Mobilizing the potentials of design-based research (thinking-through-making, reflection-inaction), "Beyond Best Practice" takes aim at accepted value-systems and conventional working methods, to advance more integrative urban design and planning practice. At base, ours is a methodological inquiry with pragmatic intent. Within the context of urban transformation processes, we want to understand and shape how collaborative thinking happens. We are interested in how people make ideas and how ideas re-make urban landscapes. to normative research categories or established academic fields might belong. To replace stale "real world vs. academy"/ "theory vs. praxis" debates with forward looking dialogue. With this project we therefore propose an alternative research model based not on collection, analysis, discussion and conclusions of already acknowledged matters-of-fact, but on the observation, labelling, discussion and elaborating on matters-of-concern (Latour 2008) arising from the communicative activities of our networking actions. To formulate the not-yet-discussed, to outline the not-yet-outlined, to pre-figure what is going to be processed within the research work, to invite and support dialogue-inbecoming, between different mindsets, we envision the process as a "goldwashing", fostering an ability to detect and contextualize new grains of value; ideas, innovations, visions and techniques being formulated in conversations and collaborations. We embrace iterative work modes with learning loops, gradually bringing in all aspects and interests, widening vocabulary, sharpening concepts and clarifying thinking. Such research work would contribute to optimising place-based knowledge creation processes (to meet local site-specific goals) and to formulating general sustainable urban development goals in a new ways (to make legible the process and its conversational components).
Rocksect expands a collaborative landscape architectural research that aims to develop a method f... more Rocksect expands a collaborative landscape architectural research that aims to develop a method for capturing site qualities through deep fieldwork-based empirical enquiry and interpretation. The authors regard this method as a critical component of the conceptual design act. Their journeys are termed ‘travelling transects’ and nurture a concept that conveys both a scientific regard – the transect – and a more ephemeral condition of movement across time and place – the travel. Its theoretical foundation relies on a reinterpretation of Alexander von Humboldt’s transareal and mobile empirical science. Over the past years the authors have conducted several travelling transects in Europe and Australia that have enabled formulation of research questions that both sharpen their methodological framework and reveal gaps to be further explored, geographically and conceptually. Rocksect translates the findings of their September 2014 transect travel to two Australian sites, the rocky coasts b...
Since its first issue, SPOOL has used the term ‘landscape metropolis’ to address urban formations... more Since its first issue, SPOOL has used the term ‘landscape metropolis’ to address urban formations beyond the traditional city that – despite their increasing ubiquity - still lack in-depth attention from the perspective of aesthetic appreciation, designerly concepts of development, guidelines for planning and governance, and design theoretical apprehension. The prefix ‘landscape’ is used to describe attention to these topics through the lens of landscape architecture, and offers, we feel, some novel potentials: in considering the metropolis as a cultural phenomenon that is constructed mentally as well as physically and socially; which relies on human as well as on natural driving forces; and which contains, somewhere in the cracks of the mosaic, in the ‘in-between’, places with distinguishable qualities – particular places.
Moving beyond the seriousness of classical landscape architecture, Monika Gora's work reveals... more Moving beyond the seriousness of classical landscape architecture, Monika Gora's work reveals a playful approach to the environment and proves that the built landscape need not be a deadly serious matter, but rather is there for astonishment, brooding, an aha or a laugh. This is the first monograph on the landscape architect and artist, Monika Gora.
Journal of Architecture and Built Environment, 2016
Since its first issue, SPOOL has used the term ‘landscape metropolis’ to address urban formations... more Since its first issue, SPOOL has used the term ‘landscape metropolis’ to address urban formations beyond the traditional city that – despite their increasing ubiquity - still lack in-depth attention from the perspective of aesthetic appreciation, designerly concepts of development, guidelines for planning and governance, and design theoretical apprehension. The prefix ‘landscape’ is used to describe attention to these topics through the lens of landscape architecture, and offers, we feel, some novel potentials: in considering the metropolis as a cultural phenomenon that is constructed mentally as well as physically and socially; which relies on human as well as on natural driving forces; and which contains, somewhere in the cracks of the mosaic, in the ‘in-between’, places with distinguishable qualities – particular places.
The traditional multi joint mechanical serial parallel structure biomimetic fish has lower propul... more The traditional multi joint mechanical serial parallel structure biomimetic fish has lower propulsive efficiency, more energy transmission loss, more complicated mechanical design and control algorithms because of more mechanical joints. While the flexible body has infinite degrees of freedom, and the energy in it is stored by elasticity and inertia, it is more viscous than that of multi joints. This project studies the principle of carangidae fish in carangidae carp, takes it as the bionic object, and designs a biomimetic fish with a flexible body tail structure to improve propulsive efficiency. This study explores the biomimetic fish propulsion speed and caudal aspect ratio, caudal oscillation frequency, modal distribution curve, and optimizes a parameter set of fish tail that can achieve effective promotion. So it is good for the exploration of the development of high speed, high efficiency, high maneuverability of bionic propeller swing on theoretical basis and practical aspects.
The integration of research-based knowledge into landscape architecture and landscape design is o... more The integration of research-based knowledge into landscape architecture and landscape design is often demanded by society as well as by landscape architects. However, this might include methodological challenges, as often becoming evident in many students’ projects. In order to overcome these challenges, and support students and teachers in the navigation towards landscape design based on research, we have compiled this guide. It aims to support in the making of informed choices about the approach, in the methodological description, and in finding relevant literature for support and further reading. We provide an introduction to the challenges, present theoretical models and palettes of approaches and discuss the application of these. An important point to make is that there is not one way to include research-based knowledge into design, but several. Although there is much knowledge on the subject, there is also a need to test and discuss the proposed approaches and their usability ...
TRANSLATING HARBOURSCAPES SITE-SPECIFIC DESIGN APPROACHES IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HARBOUR TRANSF... more TRANSLATING HARBOURSCAPES SITE-SPECIFIC DESIGN APPROACHES IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HARBOUR TRANSFORMATION This thesis investigates site-specific design approaches in contemporary harbour transformation. The integration into the urban fabric of disused harbour areas, those spatial leftovers of late 19thand 20th-century heavy industry, is a major task of contemporary urban planning. Common solutions for these areas feature generic office complexes, luxury housing, shopping centres and leisure facilities, built on the tabula rasa of the former harbours, only preserving the occasional old object from a harbour for folkloristic reasons. This research explores more site-specific ways to transform harbours, where certain design approaches integrate the site into the urban fabric by making use of that which already exists on a harbour site. The current understanding of site, design and site specificity is discussed and updated to define the analytical framework for the thesis’s case study. ...
Landscape architects today love run-down areas, the challenge of temporary projects, hands-on act... more Landscape architects today love run-down areas, the challenge of temporary projects, hands-on activities, working with people, and the aesthetics of the transitory. They often experience themselves ...
Danish visual artist Kirstine Autzen (www.autzenvisual.com) portrayed Superkilen as it was in Sum... more Danish visual artist Kirstine Autzen (www.autzenvisual.com) portrayed Superkilen as it was in Summer 2017. For Autzen, photographing a public space means taking in impressions, and at the same time making images that convey these impressions in a strictly visual manner: grabbing the camera precisely when someone or something does something. Autzen states that photographing in itself is a kind of analysis. She traversed the area several times, waiting for the opportunity to photograph a specific situation with, for instance, the right light or passers-by, and in doing so, she starts to feel at home and to see the design as an underlying structure or intention. The choice of when and how to hit the shutter is to her, in essence, normative and ostensive: 'THIS I like'; 'THAT I don't like' , pointing and pointing out through the photographic image. The images then speak of positive and negative experiences, and are a way of declaring 'authorship' and to indicate a norm for engaging with the world. The images of Superkilen presented here were made with no client in mind. They are about the relationship between the Superkilen design and its surroundings, and the way people were using it. Autzen noted seeing people everywhere: going through on their bikes, hanging out informally, playing. Though feeling sad about the poor maintenance, the intense use by a wide variety of people was uplifting. Autzen sums up her experience: "Superkilen now feels like well-worn sneakers that lost their factory colours: worn out, but ready for real love.
Mobilizing the potentials of design-based research (thinking-through-making, reflection-inaction)... more Mobilizing the potentials of design-based research (thinking-through-making, reflection-inaction), "Beyond Best Practice" takes aim at accepted value-systems and conventional working methods, to advance more integrative urban design and planning practice. At base, ours is a methodological inquiry with pragmatic intent. Within the context of urban transformation processes, we want to understand and shape how collaborative thinking happens. We are interested in how people make ideas and how ideas re-make urban landscapes. to normative research categories or established academic fields might belong. To replace stale "real world vs. academy"/ "theory vs. praxis" debates with forward looking dialogue. With this project we therefore propose an alternative research model based not on collection, analysis, discussion and conclusions of already acknowledged matters-of-fact, but on the observation, labelling, discussion and elaborating on matters-of-concern (Latour 2008) arising from the communicative activities of our networking actions. To formulate the not-yet-discussed, to outline the not-yet-outlined, to pre-figure what is going to be processed within the research work, to invite and support dialogue-inbecoming, between different mindsets, we envision the process as a "goldwashing", fostering an ability to detect and contextualize new grains of value; ideas, innovations, visions and techniques being formulated in conversations and collaborations. We embrace iterative work modes with learning loops, gradually bringing in all aspects and interests, widening vocabulary, sharpening concepts and clarifying thinking. Such research work would contribute to optimising place-based knowledge creation processes (to meet local site-specific goals) and to formulating general sustainable urban development goals in a new ways (to make legible the process and its conversational components).
Rocksect expands a collaborative landscape architectural research that aims to develop a method f... more Rocksect expands a collaborative landscape architectural research that aims to develop a method for capturing site qualities through deep fieldwork-based empirical enquiry and interpretation. The authors regard this method as a critical component of the conceptual design act. Their journeys are termed ‘travelling transects’ and nurture a concept that conveys both a scientific regard – the transect – and a more ephemeral condition of movement across time and place – the travel. Its theoretical foundation relies on a reinterpretation of Alexander von Humboldt’s transareal and mobile empirical science. Over the past years the authors have conducted several travelling transects in Europe and Australia that have enabled formulation of research questions that both sharpen their methodological framework and reveal gaps to be further explored, geographically and conceptually. Rocksect translates the findings of their September 2014 transect travel to two Australian sites, the rocky coasts b...
Since its first issue, SPOOL has used the term ‘landscape metropolis’ to address urban formations... more Since its first issue, SPOOL has used the term ‘landscape metropolis’ to address urban formations beyond the traditional city that – despite their increasing ubiquity - still lack in-depth attention from the perspective of aesthetic appreciation, designerly concepts of development, guidelines for planning and governance, and design theoretical apprehension. The prefix ‘landscape’ is used to describe attention to these topics through the lens of landscape architecture, and offers, we feel, some novel potentials: in considering the metropolis as a cultural phenomenon that is constructed mentally as well as physically and socially; which relies on human as well as on natural driving forces; and which contains, somewhere in the cracks of the mosaic, in the ‘in-between’, places with distinguishable qualities – particular places.
Moving beyond the seriousness of classical landscape architecture, Monika Gora's work reveals... more Moving beyond the seriousness of classical landscape architecture, Monika Gora's work reveals a playful approach to the environment and proves that the built landscape need not be a deadly serious matter, but rather is there for astonishment, brooding, an aha or a laugh. This is the first monograph on the landscape architect and artist, Monika Gora.
Journal of Architecture and Built Environment, 2016
Since its first issue, SPOOL has used the term ‘landscape metropolis’ to address urban formations... more Since its first issue, SPOOL has used the term ‘landscape metropolis’ to address urban formations beyond the traditional city that – despite their increasing ubiquity - still lack in-depth attention from the perspective of aesthetic appreciation, designerly concepts of development, guidelines for planning and governance, and design theoretical apprehension. The prefix ‘landscape’ is used to describe attention to these topics through the lens of landscape architecture, and offers, we feel, some novel potentials: in considering the metropolis as a cultural phenomenon that is constructed mentally as well as physically and socially; which relies on human as well as on natural driving forces; and which contains, somewhere in the cracks of the mosaic, in the ‘in-between’, places with distinguishable qualities – particular places.
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