Shared Ecologies: A reinterpretation of eco-philosophy in Feng Shui and its scientific principles for making city resilient
发布时间：2023-12-04
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- 论文类型：
- 论文集
- 第一作者：
- Wenjian Pan*
- 发表刊物：
- Programme Book of 18th APRU Multi-Hazards Symposium 2023
- 所属单位：
- 华中科技大学建筑与城市规划学院
- 刊物所在地：
- 新加坡
- 学科门类：
- 工学
- 一级学科：
- 建筑学
- 项目来源：
- 个人
- 文献类型：
- C
- 页面范围：
- 27
- 关键字：
- Blue-green infrastructure, Feng Shui, Nature-based solutions, Urban resilience
- 发表时间：
- 2023-11-29
- 摘要：
- Blue-green infrastructure plays a crucial role in forming urban morphologies, maintaining urban operation while mitigating environmental risks. Feng Shui, a theorisation of Chinese ancients’ habitation experiences, has provided many philosophical insights and scientific guidance on dealing with environmental changes to make habitats resilient. Using Hong Village as a standard application model for Feng Shui, this study reinterprets the naturally adaptable principles in Feng Shui and analyses how its passive strategies can be adopted in dwelling systems at marco-, meso-, and micro-scales. It finds that Feng Shui advocates a “system-oriented” and “shared” ecological thought to co-op elopement with nature. It treats human settlements as organic living systems that interlink and co-develop with surrounding environments. Specifically, it highlights flowing air (Feng) and flowing water (Shui) as two fundamental natural elements to be utilised and integrated into construction and daily activities, which can contribute to accumulation and circulation of energies, materials, and social dynamics. As such, seeking a balance state between humans’ activities and natural processes is critical in Feng Shui. Based on these reinterpretations, the Cheonggyecheon urban restoration project in South Korea and the Yanweizhou landscape rehabilitation project in China are taken as two typical cases for showcasing successful integrations of Feng Shui’s eco-principles into modern city governance, and they aim to respond to the challenges of increasing urban heat waves and flood hazards, respectively. Ultimately, a few nature-based solutions and soft interventions are outlined for the construction and adjustment of blue-green infrastructure in contemporary cities to strengthen urban resilience.