Pascal gravo on nature in the city

The city is able to satisfy our passion for nature. The American Dream is a private home in a rural area, but not too far from a big city, preferably near a train station. In recent years, this type of settlement has suffered a crisis, and we are now discussing the merits of this “dense” city. Even environmentalists are beginning to recognize that the city will be able to meet all stringent environmental requirements in biodiversity conservation and in preventing climate chaos.

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The love of nature should not encourage us to expand our habitat to infinity, but to regroup into compact settlements, so that nature remains to live by itself. At what size does a metropolis become completely unmanageable? Nobody knows that. An example of the least eco-friendly lifestyle is the Anglo-Saxon city, where everyone must constantly use a car.

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Analysis of the Paris agglomeration, changes in the old center and suburbs shows that the densest habitat is not large skyscrapers and blocks of apartment buildings, but areas of Ottoman development of the XIX century.

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And if we love the city as a source of inspiration and creativity, then we just need a fairly intensive environment, compressed in a limited space, which is exactly what makes the city a city. The desire for nature is expressed in different scales: parks, terraced gardens, vertical landscaping of facades, etc.

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In the interiors, its presence is not only in indoor plants. The choice of materials is important: stone, minerals, metal, slate and, of course, wood. The tree is the first thing that expresses human communication with nature. On the floor, on the walls, in the form of rough raw boards or prints on the wallpaper. The ecology color code is obviously green. Color that is not easy to use in interior design, but its shades are perfectly combined with natural materials.

Интерьер в нью-йоркском небоскребе. Кофейный столик Isla, Egg Collective, торшер Pete & Nora, ковер Halyard в сотрудничестве с Bunn Studio. Диван Mae, диз. Адам Роджерс. In Venice, Casa Flora appeared - a hotel that offers guests of the city to feel for a few days its inhabitants. Azovskiy + Pahomova architects: Gastrobar in Krivoy Rog. Hotel Casa Flora. The architectural bureau The Stella Collective has developed a lounge for Memocorp. Sydney. Apartment with a terrace and trees designed by Alena Yudina. Dinner Zone. Dining table and lamps in marble Lee Broom. Chairs Gubi.

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