How buildings and cities can be aligned with life

How buildings and cities can be aligned with life

Following nature’s patterns, not fighting them, is the way forward for the built environment. Following nature’s patterns, not fighting them, is the way forward for the built environment.

Building with Trees: Rethinking Architecture’s Relationship to Site

Courtyard under Longan Trees / Spacework Architects. Image © Rui Fu Trees are often the first things to vanish when construction starts. Clearing a site has long been one of architecture's most immediate acts, removing what already exists to make room for something new. When vegetation is preserved, it is typically treated as a secondary layer, added back as landscape rather than shaping the project itself.However, some projects begin elsewhere.…