Architecture and planning in arrangement of bionic pieces in modern urban landscape

Abstract

Green construction is a worldwide priority, as it can reduce the negative environmental impact associated with high urbanization. On the one hand, we live in an era of unprecedented economic growth; on the other hand, the man-nature interaction is being altered. The attempts to address the complicated issues of environmental crises in cities, new ways to integrate nature in architecture have been discovered, and new tools have been invented to improve the quality and representativeness of urban landscapes. Not only do these activities help create an ecologically sustainable habitat; they also make nature more important to people in general. Of greatest practical interest is the science of natural biotech, which manifests in the art of arborarchitecture and arborsculpture: the generation of new buildings, or even various architectural and artistic shapes from trees and shrubs. This paper dwells upon the basic ways of integrating bionic pieces in the architecture and planning of Russian cities. As of today, the art of arborarchitecture and arborsculpture is still at infancy. This proves the relevance of an effort to describe such pieces in terms of the basic architectural and artistic composition tools; besides, bionic pieces must be viewed as structural elements of a whole composition.