Growing Residency

Towards a multi-species design practice in architecture based on affordances

Master thesis (2023)

Authors

P.G. Gruber Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

M.G. Vink Public Building and Housing Design (mentor)
G. Karvelas Teachers of Practice / AE+T - Architecture and the Built Environment (graduation committee member)
B.L. Hansen Teachers of Practice / A - Architecture and the Built Environment (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

28-06-2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The research of the thesis explores to what extent a multi-species design practice in architecture based on affordances informed by the act of human and non-human space-making in abandoned ruins helps to achieve a symbiotic relation between architecture and biodiversity. For this purpose, a theoretical framework triangulating affordances, multi-species design and architecture was developed. This was done throughout different exploratory methods such as reviewing literature, as well as an on-field studies of the abandoned ruin “Palácio Ford” in Porto, Portugal. The architectural project is about the design of a multi-species residency consisting of different kinds of towers that contribute to the growth of an urban forest by interaction with the environment. The interventions were developed as Baubotanik structures which combine living trees and technical construction methods in one object. Thus, the project explores new ways of living in a growing architecture which forms an urban forest within the city of Porto.