Literature Review
Roots of Homo Sapiens go back to roughly to 300.000 years ago.[2] Since then, humans evolved in nature as part of it. They had to rely on nature for all of their needs such as water, food, shelter. Early humans inhabited in Savannah Landscapes in East Africa as hunter-gatherers.[3] Savannah landscapes with grasslands with trees and shrubs supplied all the necessery features that modern humans' ancestors needed. The human attachment with these lands situated in their brain adaptation. [4] After the industrial revolution, human population and built environment rapidly grew. Humans started to get less and less access to nature. Therefore, the impacts of this disconnection caused various changes in their social, pschological and physical environments. Now they spend their time in built environments more than ever.[5] They work, live, play, access to food even exercise at the indoor spaces. 2.3.1. EXISTING DESIGN PROBLEMS
Today, the 55% of world's population is living in urban areas and it is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. [6] Even though the importance of nature cannot be denied, the fact is the structures of urbanism needed in the cities. Thus, urbanization is a necessity. Yet, development of civilization is believed to be conquering the nature for many years. Standardization of the architectural buildings often ignored the environment. This ideology caused big destractions the bond between humans and nature in the cities. As a result of this approach, meeting with nature has become an activity which they need to do once in a while instead of being a part of human life.
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The world is growing towards urbanscapes.Yet, the increasing awareness of nature's importance and people's need for nature is an important value which we need to focus on as the designers. At this point it is important to understand and internalize the need of integration and balance of both values; natural and built environment. 7