Alex Haw Lecture 130708 ETH Zurich - ALIVE conference - Building Nature -326

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Building Nature - a lecture by Alex Haw as part of the Alive Conference organised by Manuel Kretzer at the ETH Zurich http://alive2013.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/events/148816638649352/ http://www.atmosstudio.com/mobile-orchard

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BUILDING

NATURE

ALIVE 2013 CAAD, ETH, Zurich

Alex Haw

atmos

we design

with & for nature

letting nature

invade & inform

we grow

solutions

growth systems as

form & content,

client & method

we cultivate

performance

as art and

infrastructure

we enhance

interaction

we inhabit

data

we design with

global rhythms

we build with

information

& man-made

climates

& we build

nature

the mobile orchard

ergonomic

nature

embracing

the body

celebrating

the artifice of nature

as strong

as steel

timber tentacles

maximised

occupancy

a spiralling trunk

radiating branches

continuous

bifurcation

growing a grain

a dismantleable kit

Frankenstein’s

Neck

crenulated

trunk

a barrage of

branches

metallic splices

London Leaves

bits > bits

www . atmosstudio . com

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