Reflection on the nature project

Authors

  • Patrícia Helen Lima

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-2275.v0i6p107-122

Keywords:

Landscape, Urban Shape, Green Infrastructure, heat islands, resilience to climate change

Abstract

Knowing, Understanding and Protecting nature that gives us life, understanding its limits and interrelationships as well as recognizing that projects manifest the human intention, interfering, consequently, with nature by modifying the environment, is the first step to think about the construction projects with responsibility above the punctual vision of an action and will allow itself to bring identity with the place, sharing the qualities and condition of nature influencing urban form and giving better conditions aesthetic, functional and environmental quality.
Having in mind the complexity of human-nature relationships, we propose a reading of the landscape, defining different types of Landscape Units vis-à-vis the relations established with the ways of land usage, defining the environment and starting from the territorial inventory propose a green infrastructure that guides the development and environmental protection. The land usage is reducing the protective green areas and increasing impermeable areas and paved grounds, raising the temperature and causing formation of urban heat islands.
The infrastructure must work without causing damage and in communion with nature to ensure quality of life. We have the challenge of facing the transformations by the resilience to the climate change induced by the land usage as well as demonstrate how architecture plays a leadership role to deal with great environmental issues and survival.

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Author Biography

  • Patrícia Helen Lima
    Arquiteta Urbanista, Mestre em Projeto Sustentável pela FAUUSP, Doutoranda em Arquitetura e Cidade pela FAUUSP, Coordenadora da Seção de Informação da Qualidade Ambiental da PMSBC.

Published

2013-06-20

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Articles

How to Cite

Lima, P. H. (2013). Reflection on the nature project. Revista LABVERDE, 6, 107-122. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-2275.v0i6p107-122