The Urban Rookery
Rookery: a colony of breeding animals, generally birds. A rookery is generally reserved for a colony of gregarious…
Art-value of Biological Growth on Buildings
The art value of the co-created landscape cannot be ignored. The biological growth elevates the value of the wall into that of a unique sculpture.
An Enquiry into Production of Public Sculptures of Animals in Calcutta
As we are able to replicate the natural world in a synthetic medium, it becomes important to question the processes that lead to the existence of the animal sculptures.
Cities: Home for Wildlife, Lacking Wilderness
If cities can be programmed with the character of wilderness, the urban can draw benefits of wonderment, motion, colour and interaction.
A Mongoose Family Visits Home
It was February 7 2018, when animal screams outside my bedroom door woke me up in the middle of the night.
Syn-Urban Assemblages
Throughout North America, the suburbs are a pervasive condition that emerge at the periphery of every major metropolitan…
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…
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.
Decompositions; Part 1
How can sharing spaces lead us to a deeper understanding of our space? Can we learn the senses of other species? Can we gain an animal’s superpowers? The following projects offer another reason for sharing our spaces with non-human species: the enrichment of our spaces and our own perception.
Urban Transhumance
Urban Transhumance explores urban farming as viable urban renewal option by revisiting Grand Boulevard as a site that circumscribes the historic limits of Detroit.
Oceanic Agriculture
Oceanic Agriculture is a marine strategy for rapid deployment of food-aid in times of prolonged civic stress. The design proposes to generate a flotilla of horizontal surfaces that become deployable seafaring farmlands. Oceanic Agriculture pairs the exigencies of organizations such as the World Food Program and the Global Food Crisis Program, with current disposal and mothball strategies for large military, commercial and private maritime vessels.
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?
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.
Bear 71
“It’s hard to say where the wired world ends and the wired world begins.” As part of the…
Interview: Prosthetic Lizard Homes
I have always been inspired by the resilient and often rebellious way that other species interact with and adapt to our human built environments and (in our general arrogance) our under-estimation of the potential of inter-species collaboration and co-habitation. This to me has always been a territory which warrants further exploration.
Interview: Farmland World
..This type of erosion between a “nature” that is undisturbed and human intervention confronts us everyday and exploring this erosion is the basis for much of our speculative work. What started as an unconscious observation has turned into a passion for how these issues can be made architectural...
Interview: SIMONE FERRACINA, Theriomorphous Cyborg
We've asked Simone Ferracina's to share with us a little bit more about the project, his process and the forces that drive his creativity. Enjoy!
Animal Architecture Awards Announced!
Animal Architecture is proud to announce the winning entries for the 2011 Animal Architecture Awards. Congratulations to all of the entrants! Job well done!
BIRD BUG BEAST
Art League Houston is delighted to present Indigenous Genius, a selection of artistic and scientific artifacts from the private collection of pioneering Ohio-based collector R.W. Northcutt, that chronicles the obscure yet poetic life of three particular wood-working animals the beaver, the woodpecker and the termite...
ARC Wildlife Crossing
The ARC International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition (ARC) has brought together landscape architects, engineers, and ecologists to create a proposed wildlife crossing structure in Colorado.
Call of the Wild
Call of the wild Chimp — that is. This year’s lecture series at the Houston Zoo kicks off…
FERAL CITY
...from Seth Barnard, an architecture student at the Cooper Union. Seth's project, as he states, asks the simple question "What if we introduced [or re-introduced] zoological/ entomological/ botanical specimens into our everyday lives?" And we totally agree with you Seth. What if? What if we had a greater awareness of the animals already around us...
Buenos Aires Vertical Zoo Competition 2010
While we might disagree with their claim to "organic cliff" and suggest something more like cactus, or termite hill, the basic idea of a highly malleable structure with variable porosity we think is right on track.
Winner! Adelaide Zoo
Earlier this month the Adelaide Zoo was garnered with an outstanding five awards to dominate this years Australian Institute of Architect's 2010 Australian Architecture Awards.