Contemporary Design in Detail - Sustainable Environments Yenna Chan (pp 14-36).
Response to Place Part 3
-Preferably using land that has already been developed rather than UN-built/ agricultural land.
-Examples of built land include tree plantation for the forest to regain its natural balance.
-The buildings also guard against site's natural hazards.
-Building downward to replace one green space with another on same urban site.
-Maintains public open space by strict requirements and in the process provides a new habitat for local birds.
-Chan also explains how land that was once occupied by heavy industry may contain some form of contamination. The book explains how it is in the designer's interest to consider this in their designs.
-Site remediation techniques end to be expensive so designers come up with solutions to resolve the problem.
-Conservation of a site is the first step to approach a new design to have minimal impact on the environment. The idea shows strategies throughout the deisgn, building, and occupancy to reduce effects of architecture on land, from house footprint to altered site conditions from use of site resources to production of wastage.
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