Pocket Forest
Small-scale architectural and landscape interventions that integrate nature into built environments.
Pocket Forest explores how designers create intimate encounters with nature through architecture and landscape design. These projects demonstrate strategies for weaving vegetation, water, and natural systems into compact spaces and existing structures.
The community examines works ranging from vertical gardens integrated into residential architecture to public parks carved from repurposed buildings, as well as pavilions and structures positioned at forest edges that mediate between human intervention and natural growth.
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Read Studio Stacks a Concrete House Vertically to Let a Sri Lankan Garden Grow Around It
A 323-square-meter home in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte occupies a small footprint so mature trees, herbs, and fruit plants claim the rest of the site.
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.
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.
Approach Design Studio Folds a Public Park into a Former Police Station in Beijing
A decommissioned police station in Daxing District becomes a hybrid office and community park wrapped in a steel exoskeleton.
