Why am I so sure that nature (natural materials, plants, connection with the environment (outside and as a whole)) must be present in all architecture? Because it serves as a very important reminder of the realities of our lives. Of what we are, and hopefully of what we’re doing with our lives. A lot can be said of watching a robin skip across a garden, or eating fruit that you’ve grown yourself.
It’s easy to forget about how simple our existence is when we are living in an overly complicated, overly ordered, man-made world full of overly complicated, overly ordered man-made buildings.
As our world becomes increasingly digitally orientated and increasingly filled with machines I believe that it’s becoming increasingly important for our buildings to tell us that life’s not that complicated.
Life is easy. Life is great. But only if we perceive it to be.
(Fairhaven beach, where the above thoughts came to me)
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