The Urban Rookery
Rookery: a colony of breeding animals, generally birds. A rookery is generally reserved for a colony of gregarious…
Cultural Practices Shaping Urban Biodiversity
The public square at Utpal Dutta Sarani enables an intensified feeding mechanism that spatially restrains foraging activities of an exploding pigeon population, preventing destructive impacts on urban nature.
Hollow Ecosystems: Ambient Shelters for Avifauna in Cities
Hollow Ecosystems (HES) can encourage a healthy population of birds within urban areas as well as add value of wonderment to architectural projects.
Concrete Chimney Swift Tower
The evolution of the Chimney Swift is closely intertwined with modernity and the changing habitats of humans. Although originally nesting in caves and rotted trees, Chimney Swifts now primarily nest in, well -- chimneys and other man-made habitats. They adapted to chimneys in the first place due to a scarcity of standing, rotted trees - as these have a tendency to fall onto property and are quickly taken down.
Joyce Hwang: Bower
Bower is a series of architectural fragments that frame the landscape of ArtPark and host bird nesting boxes for various species.
Syn-Urban Assemblages
Throughout North America, the suburbs are a pervasive condition that emerge at the periphery of every major metropolitan…
Co-migration: Aeroplankton
Many occupied regions of the world are turning arid due to rapid changes in global climate. This is…
Co-migration: Cloud Forest
Climate change is provoking a massive migration among humans and non-humans. As temperatures and weather patterns shift, entire…
Domestic Prosthetics for Cohabitation
The project explores possible conditions of cohabitation through the design of domestic prosthetics for the single-family detached house. Three…
Decompositions; Part 3
[Animals, with their myriad superhuman senses, can teach us new unprecedented ways of occupying space. Shared spaces can…
Decompositions; Part 2
Can design bridge land and water? Could shared spaces teach us what it’s like to occupy underwater spaces, and navigate through oceans and waterways?
Between Human and Animal
The space of greatest tension between human and animal is the domestic territory of the house. Suburbs are therefore at the front line of the confrontation between humans and synanthropic animals. As woodlots and agrarian landscape are converted into residential communities, highly adaptive animals seek out new habitat opportunities.
BioCity Installation Update
We are happy to announce that the BioCity installation has completed its second round of installation.
Coexist: MFA Thesis from Rona Binay
SVA (School of Visual Arts) Product Design student Rona Binay’s MFA thesis entitled, ‘COEXIST, Mixing with Urban Wildlife’ transgresses the relationship between the "urban" and the "natural" through a series of four design interventions.
Bird Friendly Glass
In the world of The Expanded Environment, be-it animal friendly design, animal-inclusive design or biosynthetics there are few resources as detailed, exhaustive and prescriptive as the design guides for bird-friendly architecture.
Thoughts on Barkitecture
Dog-houses and bird-houses have always made me somewhat uneasy. They are strange products and additionally strange terms. What does "house" mean to a bird or a dog? Moreover, what business do we have building homes for another species?
Garden Building for Humans and Butterflies
The GBHNCB, is a prototype for a garden building and a step in creating a network of environmentally-aware gardeners among the population of the city of Cali to take care of the rich local flora and fauna.
Bat Cloud
Bat Cloud, the winner of the 2012 Animal Architecture Awards, is an excellent example of how humans and other animal species, in this case one previously considered a pest, can re-align their relationship to develop new methods of a coexistence. The project is actual, it's imaginative and beautiful. Excellent work.
Bird-friendly Masonry
A project for bird-bricks was recently pointed in our direction and it immediately reminded us of the 2011 Animal…
Land, Sea and Air
The project proposes to construct dwellings in an appropriate form along the river bank. A central focus of the project is to address concerns about the impact on the environment around the site. This led to an in-depth study of the local wildlife, looking at ways in which these dwellings also could be conceived to create habitats for specific animals other than humans.
Building For Birds: Avian-friendly Skyscrapers
NPR: Every year millions of birds fly headlong into sleek glass and steel skyscrapers all over the country. Can a better glass save these co-urbanites?
Birding Hotel
Here’s a project by Morris Architects that was a runner up in a 2009 hospitality design competition called…
Tower of Nests
...best of all, one is lead to believe that over time the density of the structure will increase with all of the small materials brought along by the various inhabitants, growing thicker, heavier and stronger with the passage of life and time.
BirdScraper
Animal Architecture Awards: Third Runner Up Zhong Huang 1. Birds Die From Crashing Into Skyscrapers Windows –…
Interview: Carla Novak
"Pigeon racing occupies an intriguing threshold between the domestic and the non-domestic. It seemed perfectly logical that a pigeon racing headquarters for a group of enthusiasts might materialize within an ordinary Victorian terraced house."