Instead of designers trying to mimic natural beauty, could we not develop & design around pre-existing natural beauty? I know this is a lot to ask, but it takes me back to when I was a kid. I thought, all I needed was a good tree & a few planks of wood to build a home. But what an incredible home. A living, breathing, growing home. When I read the brief, I thought back to the tree house. Instead of adding nature to a building, I asked ai to flip the script. Add a building to nature. To design & adapt to nature.A structure that is now, like back in the trees, living & breathing. A structure where elements grow & we live in harmony around them. A natural & organic element embedded into a built environment. Alive & breathing.

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