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Architecture Thesis Prep

2020

Biodiversity

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An Interface: An Architecture That Stitches Species, Suren Sivaram Oct 2020

An Interface: An Architecture That Stitches Species, Suren Sivaram

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Materialized, architecture could be considered as an interface that promotes and preserves biodiversity within a site, as “all life is bound into dynamic and interrelated processes of codependency.” In addition, this thesis posits that architecture as an interface may act representationally to raise awareness of the need to embrace biodiversity and to sustain humanity. In Greater Perfections, Hunt suggests, “The garden will … be distinguished in various ways from the adjacent territories in which it is set … it will be set apart by the greater extent, scope, and variety of its design and internal organization”. Stitching elements of its …