Strategic Principles
Toolkit for an interconnected Design
To implement the ecosystem program's concepts and metrics, specific principles must be developed. The eight subsystems come from diverse design fields, requiring strategies tailored to their typologies. For example, the Fulda wetlands involve landscape architecture, while the biodiversity research lab focuses on architectural conservation. These principles will unify the subsystems into a synergetic ecosystem, ensuring regeneration and resilience through internal synergies.
Traditional design approaches like minimalism or function-focused forms are unsuitable for this ecosystem concept, which requires holistic thinking. Water, flora, fauna, and humans interact in ways that may conflict, demanding unconventional solutions to enable these elements to coexist.
Urban landscapes, often modeled after English gardens, appear natural but are highly artificial, with low biodiversity and limited climate resilience. To address this, a new aesthetic embraces natural chaos, enabling ecosystems to thrive and benefiting humans. This approach fosters rewilding, allowing flora and fauna to flourish.
Instead of mimicking nature artificially, the principles will guide human-initiated processes that evolve naturally, resulting in stronger, self-sustaining systems. Existing structures and spaces also need reassessment. Human activities have created vast sealed areas, but changing needs and reduced space usage, driven by trends like tiny homes, create opportunities. Vacant spaces can be reallocated, balancing human requirements with nature's needs, giving unused areas back to the ecosystem.