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Reconstructing Property, Borders, And Sites: Nestling The Built, Christina Truwit
Reconstructing Property, Borders, And Sites: Nestling The Built, Christina Truwit
Masters Theses
The built environment is built for resilience. It is curated to have prominence over natural systems, formulated to withstand, and rebuilt to withstand, once ruined. The power of the biosphere is subverted, however, building to protect against nature undermines opportunities within natural systems to protect us.
My thesis is focusing on the problems at play with property and our pressing climate issues. I will be looking at what opportunities exist to deprioritize owned property, to allow for a dispersal of stewardship, and acknowledgment of natural systems.
An Interplay: Biomimetic Exploration Of Systems In Architecture, Sanjana Masurkar
An Interplay: Biomimetic Exploration Of Systems In Architecture, Sanjana Masurkar
Masters Theses
How can we use nature’s way of building and designing and apply this knowledge in a progressive, and innovative way? Can scouring the biosystem be an effective way of finding inspiration?
Art, in the broader sense, is anything produced by humans rather than nature. Through nature, the ultimate source of knowledge and wisdom, is where we eventually draw inspiration from. By manifesting the environment, humans are able to respect and look into nature in a new light. Interaction with nature helps better understand and value the natural themes. The relationship between design and the built environment opens up the politics …