Architecture is a slippery beast! A chimera drenched in gasoline. No use in even trying to nail it down. You’d sooner drive a stake through the heart of every man, woman and child!

It’s a matter of life you see…

So, that being the case, why limit our understanding of life/architecture to just people? Plants are alive too, no? Not just alive, but alive out of necessity! Where else will you turn to get your food, oxygen, medicine, timber, etcetera, etc?

Lets say we’re all gone tomorrow. Those anthropologists will have one hell of a time making sense of why we left everything that kept us alive outside our homes. Imagine the confusion when they see all those buildings that vaguely resemble that thing we used to call nature. What’s this, a civilization of secret admirers?

Screw the foreplay! Lets have architecture stop trying to be like nature, and be nature! At the very least lets have a thesis project that does it. Show those anthropologists that yes, we did in fact think about it.

This is a vivarium apartment dwelling located squarely in midst of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The architecture is not built; it is grown. Using botanical hybridization techniques in conjunction with speculative advances in biotechnology, this thesis explores the development of certain plant species into a cohesive and working architecture.