Nature is a constant inspiration for everyone and many designers have now started using it as an inspiration for construction. It is usually eco friendly and hence helps in making the world a purer place. Here are a few architecture designs that integrate nature into their concepts.
1. Thematic pavilion
The thematic pavilion planned by the Austrian firm SOMA for the expo 2012 at Yeosu in Korea, won the winning design proposal. The pavilion, called the kinetic media facade, is inspired by ocean waves. The building’s main entrance is situated on ocean plaza, which is partly covered by the pavilion to achieve a shaded outdoor waiting area.
2. Forrest Fulton Architecture
Forrest Fulton Architecture, an Alabama based firm has designed an 85 000 square meter biomorphic spatial surface for Yerevan, Armenia that connects the adjacent city and the landscape. This building is shaped like a hill and is draped with native plants that are irrigated using a recycled gray water system.
3. Vegetated Landscape Architecture
This kind of architecture encompasses vegetation and buildings and causes some sort of a blur between them. The concept of tromp l’oeil (trick of the eye) has been used in many ways in this design to expand visual impact and supplement the design, although in a more directed way.
4. Building harmonizing with landscape
The Nanyang Technology University really does have a green roof to cover its School of Art, Design and Media. The roof effortlessly blends in with the landscape of the city. The roofs create open space, insulate the building, cool the surrounding air, and harvest rainwater for landscaping irrigation.
5. Green Landscape Gwanggyo Power Centre
The architectural firm MVRDV has come up with the idea of building a new city called Gwanggyo, in South Korea. It even won the competition sponsored by Daewoo to design a new city. The structure’s green design is planned in a way as to make the most of natural resources and reuse it.
6. Baroque terraced-landscape building
ACME’s terrace design is a contemporary spin on the Baroque terraced-landscape building typology found nearby in the Weilburg Castle Gardens. This architecture will allow for greater use of available space and will harness the earth’s natural resources to a great extent through its innovative design.
7. Leonardo Glass Cube
Westphalia, as the structure is called is the first permanent edifice planned for Glaskoch by the German designer 3deluxe and offers some of the most expensive and comfortable luxuries inside the building. The structure blends into the background by continuing the design of the landscape onto the building, such as the use of branch like structures on the glass of the building.
8. Architecture Building Landscape
Archimedialab designed this building in Schwandorf, Bavaria, Germany and has named it Zweckverband Müllverwertung Schwandorf. The superimposition of building and earth wall allows us to explore and experience the landscape of this entire ensemble on various levels.
9. Zira Zero Island
Zira Island is a zero energy resort and entertainment city designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, on an island in the Caspian Sea off Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Zira Island is designed to be a sustainable model for urban development and an iconographic skyline recognizable from the city’s coastline. The mountains are conceived not only as metaphors but engineered as entire ecosystems, a model for future sustainable urban development.
10. Modern Hotel Landscape Architecture Design
The Modern landscape project developed by the architectural firm JSA is built around a series of independent rooms, spread over a total area of 800 square meters, each of which overlooks the surrounding landscape with a large glass wall. Built in Norway, its landscape merges with the interior and became the main decorative element.