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Natural Forest: Projects, Journals & Ideas

10 Projects 31 Journals 2 Competitions

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Natural forests present both constraints and opportunities for designers working at the intersection of built and natural systems. Projects in this topic explore how architecture can coexist with, respond to, or enhance forest environments through material choices, spatial planning, and ecological integration.

The community documents residential, institutional, and recreational structures positioned within or adjacent to forests, alongside interventions that use forest canopies, timber materiality, and woodland hydrology as design drivers. Work ranges from pavilions and retreats to housing and infrastructure that engage with forest ecology and landscape conditions.

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Relja

AXIS MUNDI - Tansfarm

Future Forest Protector

Bob

Hudson Forest

The Hudson Forest is a mixed-use development that focuses on creating new typologies that bridge the gap between nature and the built environment. The concept was designed to emulate the natural layering of a forest.

Santruli

Healing Façade

Based on the belief of forest churches in the chain of interdependence between humans and non-humans, the proposal is a feasible, modular and replicable facade to address the gap made by unsustainable human actions. Through fibers, the façade catches water from the wind to protect vegetation and foster conditions for reforestation and landscape restoration.

Fionn and Shasha

Silva Loop

Silva Loop is a building and landscape architectural response to forest loss in Ethiopia. Multiple microclimates provide a diversity of habitats for an abundance of local and endemic bird species. These birds, non-human allies, will spread seed as they navigate the global, regional, and local flyways which overlap the project site, replanting as they go.

Marco

CLIMATE CHANGE & URBAN RESILIENCE / A new urban park along the final part of Aniene River in Rome

This designed space is able to respond comprehensively to the problems related to climate changes and water risk, enhancing a large urban park, underestimated by Roman citizens, and allows them its full enjoyment and maximum exploitation, finally converting the extreme natural event into an source of experience.

junghyun and 3 others

Mycorrhizal Network Home

This design begins with a solution to deforestation, which is a problem of expansion of residential space, and begins with creating a residential space where humans can live while maintaining a symbiotic relationship with plants and animals found in the Amazon.

Genc

Forest Housing

In addition to the use of sustainable materials, the goal is to make new buildings more adaptable on site. Through the use of greenery, the building aims to coexist in harmony with nature.

Mateusz

Forest Interpretation Centre

The building implements sustainable strategies by using natural construction and finishing materials sourced from the surrounding area. (soil, straw, wood). It also fits in with the Australian landscape by recessing the building into the terrain and the earthy color scheme of the facade.

Jenan

Through the Eyes of Nature

Experience the various perspectives of the forest

Arnab

Community-Based Eco-Tourism At Madhupur Sal Forest

The Mass Tourism practice has hugely impacted the communities and eco-system of Bangladesh. This project aims to create a sustainable Community-Based tourism model which will work for the holistic development of the underprivileged Garo community and the deteriorating eco-system of Madhupur.

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UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

Atelier MA Builds a Twisting Timber Pavilion at the Edge of a French Forest Pond

Split chestnut shingles and triangulated larch frames welcome visitors to the Mormal forest in northern France's Avesnois region.

Natural Forest

Forest

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

Architects 49 Wraps an LNG Terminal Office in a Living Forest Canopy in Map Ta Phut

A 13,500-square-meter circular office harnesses cold energy from liquified natural gas to grow a cloud forest in industrial Thailand.

Natural Forest

Environmental Conservation

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

Rodrigo Nuñez Arquitectos Terraces a 900 m² Brick House into a Forest Edge in León

A single clay brick and timber define a dwelling that mediates between suburbia and a protected pine forest on a steep Spanish slope.

Tree House

Food Forest

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog5 months ago

Roland Baldi Architects Chars a Timber Forestry Station Black in South Tyrol's Most Wooded Municipality

A CasaClima Gold administration building in Nova Ponente draws on Alpine and Japanese fire-treatment traditions to honor its forested context.

Power Station

Food Forest