Gary Coates
Phone: 785-532-5953
Address: Department of Architecture
211 Seaton Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
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Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
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These questions guided students in my architectural design studio as they explored the relationships between process and form in the design of a new Seniors Center for Manhattan and Riley County, Kansas. Their proposals for the adaptive re-use of a historic downtown building was the result of a process in which written and oral stories were used, along with large scale physical models, to guide design decisions.
The new resort town of Seaside, Florida provides many valuable lessons for the design of the sustainable solar com- munities of the future. Seaside's master plan and coded building styles are de- rived from traditional climate-responsive patterns prevalent before air conditioning and the automobile reshaped the urban landscape of the American south. Con- sequently, Seaside gives new form to a regionally-based tradition of architecture and urban design which, in principle, holds great potential for he!ping us tore- spond to the needs of design in the post- petroleum age.
In order to explore this potential Seaside's developer Robert Davis invited Professor Gary Coates and students enrolled in his spring 1988 advanced architectural design studio to study Seaside and to design two model passive solar buildings, a bed-and-breakfast inn and a three 48 bedroom house.
The goals of the studioSeaside Solar envelope were: (1) to develop an understanding of the principles, patterns and technologies relevant to the design of sustainable buildings and communities; (2) to evaluate Seaside's building code in terms of its ability to give each property owner access to sun, wind and light; (3) to..use Seaside's code, or a modified version of it, as a framework for designing climatically responsive buildings capable of being heated and cooled primarily by incident solar energy flows.
This issue includes the regular EAP features of “comments from readers,” “items of interest” and “citations received.” The issue also includes:
A tribute to phenomenological psychologist Bernd Jager, who passed away in March, 2015. In memoriam, we reprint passages from two of his most noteworthy writings, “Theorizing, Journeying, Dwelling” (1975) and “Theorizing the Elaboration of Place” (1983).
A “book note” that reproduces a portion of an interview with phenomenological philosopher Edward Casey, published in the recent volume, Exploring the Work of Edward Casey, edited by Azucena Cruz-Pierre and Donald A. Landes.
A book review of archaeologist Christopher Tilley’s Interpreting Landscapes, by Northern Earth Editor John Billingsley.
A commentary that philosopher Dylan Trigg presented at the special session on “Twenty-Five years of EAP,” held at the annual meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP) in October.
Independent researcher Stephen Wood’s “Moving: Remaking a Lifeworld,” in which he offers a first-person phenomenology of moving to a new house, including the lived significance of embodied emplacement.
Anthropologist Jenny Quillien’s “Wordless Walkabouts on a Chinese Campus,” which discusses the “sense of place” Quillien experienced while spending three weeks in the South Chinese city of Guangzhou.
Artist Victoria King’s “The Imprint of Place,” which considers how King’s sense of artistic creativity has shifted over time, partly because of maturing personal experience and partly because of changes in her lived geography and a deepening understanding of place.
Architect Gary Coates’ “Reinventing the Screened Porch: Bioclimatic Design in the American Midwest,” which presents an experiential analysis of a porch Coates designed for his Kansas home.
These questions guided students in my architectural design studio as they explored the relationships between process and form in the design of a new Seniors Center for Manhattan and Riley County, Kansas. Their proposals for the adaptive re-use of a historic downtown building was the result of a process in which written and oral stories were used, along with large scale physical models, to guide design decisions.
The new resort town of Seaside, Florida provides many valuable lessons for the design of the sustainable solar com- munities of the future. Seaside's master plan and coded building styles are de- rived from traditional climate-responsive patterns prevalent before air conditioning and the automobile reshaped the urban landscape of the American south. Con- sequently, Seaside gives new form to a regionally-based tradition of architecture and urban design which, in principle, holds great potential for he!ping us tore- spond to the needs of design in the post- petroleum age.
In order to explore this potential Seaside's developer Robert Davis invited Professor Gary Coates and students enrolled in his spring 1988 advanced architectural design studio to study Seaside and to design two model passive solar buildings, a bed-and-breakfast inn and a three 48 bedroom house.
The goals of the studioSeaside Solar envelope were: (1) to develop an understanding of the principles, patterns and technologies relevant to the design of sustainable buildings and communities; (2) to evaluate Seaside's building code in terms of its ability to give each property owner access to sun, wind and light; (3) to..use Seaside's code, or a modified version of it, as a framework for designing climatically responsive buildings capable of being heated and cooled primarily by incident solar energy flows.
This issue includes the regular EAP features of “comments from readers,” “items of interest” and “citations received.” The issue also includes:
A tribute to phenomenological psychologist Bernd Jager, who passed away in March, 2015. In memoriam, we reprint passages from two of his most noteworthy writings, “Theorizing, Journeying, Dwelling” (1975) and “Theorizing the Elaboration of Place” (1983).
A “book note” that reproduces a portion of an interview with phenomenological philosopher Edward Casey, published in the recent volume, Exploring the Work of Edward Casey, edited by Azucena Cruz-Pierre and Donald A. Landes.
A book review of archaeologist Christopher Tilley’s Interpreting Landscapes, by Northern Earth Editor John Billingsley.
A commentary that philosopher Dylan Trigg presented at the special session on “Twenty-Five years of EAP,” held at the annual meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP) in October.
Independent researcher Stephen Wood’s “Moving: Remaking a Lifeworld,” in which he offers a first-person phenomenology of moving to a new house, including the lived significance of embodied emplacement.
Anthropologist Jenny Quillien’s “Wordless Walkabouts on a Chinese Campus,” which discusses the “sense of place” Quillien experienced while spending three weeks in the South Chinese city of Guangzhou.
Artist Victoria King’s “The Imprint of Place,” which considers how King’s sense of artistic creativity has shifted over time, partly because of maturing personal experience and partly because of changes in her lived geography and a deepening understanding of place.
Architect Gary Coates’ “Reinventing the Screened Porch: Bioclimatic Design in the American Midwest,” which presents an experiential analysis of a porch Coates designed for his Kansas home.
As the majority of current environmental challenges appear to originate from planning, design, and operations of urban environments, this study identifies a series of Core Principles from mainstream urban design practices such as Smart Growth, New Urbanism, Resilient Cities, Eco-Villages, Regenerative Design, Living Buildings, as well as Green Urbanism. To complement the core principles, a series of Supporting Strategies are derived from such practices as Urban Redevelopment and Infill, LEED-Neighborhood Development, Transit-Oriented Development, Growth Management, Natural Capitalism, Renewable Sources of Energy and Materials, Urban Agriculture, Hannover Principles, as well as Next Industrial Revolution. Based on this foundation the author synthesizes a new, integrated, comprehensive design agenda aiming at the restoration of natural environment, which is coined here as Restorative Design or Restorative Urban Design. The restorative approach not only realigns a wide variety of fragmented design principles and strategies of designing inherently resilient and sustainable environments but also repurposes their ultimate goals toward the restoration of pristine Nature.
Relying exclusively on multifaceted, multi-disciplinary, long-term, and comprehensive environmental planning principles and strategies, the Restorative agenda sets out to propagate appreciation and respect for Nature in order to prevent the destruction of planetary life and to reestablish human harmony within natural systems. It strongly advocates not only the management of population growth and urban sprawl but also the expansion of open natural areas and natural ecosystems. The Restorative theory encourages phasing out of nonrenewable practices and promotes reliance on current solar income and other renewable sources of energy, placing greater emphasis on increased urban densities, quality of life, as well as equality within economic and social structures. It also seeks new legal instruments, land ownership, mass transportation, as well as agricultural patterns toward transformation of existing urban fabric. Finally, the study concludes that only through such a realignment and heightened purpose can environmental planning and design efforts effectively restore and sustain the richness, diversity, health, and beauty of the natural world. The worldwide application of the outlined restorative principles and strategies can help the recovery, revitalization, and restoration of pristine natural systems to the fullest extent possible.