Walk through almost any suburban neighbourhood and one design decision repeats itself with remarkable consistency: a trimmed front lawn. It has become so familiar that few people question why it…
Product design has traditionally treated nature as a source of visual inspiration. A chair may resemble a beetle, a lamp may imitate a bird’s wing, or a building component may…
Since the beginning of civilization, nature has been our greatest teacher, demonstrating how to build resilient, efficient, and harmonious systems. However, over the years, rapid and unsustainable development has distanced…
Mother Nature, embodied by the Earth, was bestowed with beautiful dense forest-lands that reached approximately half of the land area, along with other very important landscapes such as deserts, glaciers,…
Around the globe, there are several places that would be considered inhospitable for the human population to live and survive in. Yet in many parts of the world, humans have…
When built merges with the unbuilt, and there is no barrier between the indoor and outdoor, the structure ceases to dominate and becomes one with the surroundings. Neelai: The lakehouse…
The Nature of the Creative Journey The Creative Journey begins with a concept, inquiry, or curiosity. Ideas form softly, frequently unorganized, but with immense promise. The difficulty is to guide…
What’s a world without architecture? How different would our lives be without the built structures? To determine an answer to that, one first needs to acknowledge the fact that humans…
In today’s fast-growing cities, life often moves faster than the spaces we live in. Buildings rise higher, streets grow busier, and daily routines become tightly packed between concrete walls. In…
Architecture is the Real Problem! Rising sea levels, increasing global temperature, loss of biodiversity, more frequent and extreme weather events, reduced air quality, natural resource depletion, and so many more.…
In the past, cities took the approach of adapting to nature by adopting techniques that use natural materials and structures (e.g., organic and vernacular architecture) in the formation of an…
Imagine a building that grows from nature. A structure where branches draft corridors, roots knit foundations, and walls breathe through leaves. This is the idea of designing with nature’s Logic.…