Environmental Aesthetics

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Environmental Aesthetics
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Natural Environment
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Add a New Component to the EnvironmentA Building!
Can we make this addition a POSITIVE one ?
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Architects Modify the Environment
An Existing Environment
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The Built Up Environment
A Modified Natural Environment
Building or settlement A Man Made
Environment Controlled Environment
Impacts on Environments
Impacts on Building
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The Built up Environment
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A Modification to the Built up Environment
A new building
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A Modification to the Built up Environment
A new building
A Modified Natural Environment
Settlement A Man Made Environment
Impacts on settlement
Impacts on Environments
A new building
Impacts on Building
Impacts on settlement
A modification to the built environment
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Environmental Architecture
The Architecture that Interacts positively with
its Environment, achieving an environment
appropriate for human living, in the present and
in the future. buildings Impacts on
Environment maximize positive Impacts
minimize Negative Impactsexample Hurgada
Coral reef! Environment Impacts on
building maximize positive Impacts minimize
Negative Impacts Green Architecture .
Sustainable development
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Environmental Architecture sciences
Environmental conservation Environmental Impact
Assessment (EIA) Environmental
Aesthetics Environmental control Climatic
Design Lighting sound and noise
control psychological effects of the built
environment Man made/ natural Environment
Interaction Site Planning landscape
Architecture Environmental Aesthetics
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Environmental Aesthetics

• What is Environmental Aesthetics?
• A part of environmental sciences that
  concentrates on the Aesthetic values of the
  environment
• Conservation of the Aesthetic values of
  Natureand Built enviroment visual- vocal-
  smells- textures- tastes,- Creating Man Made
  environments with high Aesthetic
  Values buildings and built environments man
  made land features gardens, forests, lakes-
  Composing a visual harmony between the building
  and its environment. Building within
  nature Nature within building

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Harmony with nature and landscape
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Gardens Nature in Man Made Environments
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Formal Gardens
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Environmental Aesthetics
Art, philosophy and science Art design
buildings and Landscape components to achieve a
harmonious existance with environment.Photograph,
draw and paint natural scens to get the sence of
beuty in them. Philosophy Aesthetics and
Understanding beautyAesthetics and
Ethics Science Good Understanding of
Environmental science is essential for
understanding the environmental Aesthetics