Inhabiting Natural Cycles
The passageway connecting the farm‘s courtyard to the fields, which also serves as tool storage, is more than just a practical route, it influences our thermal experience.
An open door brings a cold draft, while even a closed door allows a slight breeze due to the open structure on one side. It is a place which is not perfectly maintained and cracks in the roof tiles allow sunlight, wind, and rain to enter. This slight process of decay brings the space back to life, allowing nature to add its layers over time, creating a dynamic sensorial experience.
New ways of acknowledging this imperfect material change have to be developed as well as an openness to the uncertain process of grow, change, collapse and decay.
A structure is designed to let us experience decay from multiple angles and in various forms offers a completely new way of engaging with the existing. New walls made from decaying materials rise, supporting adapted crops, while interior and exterior merge, transforming the space into an extension of nature and the fields.
Shifting our perspective to view decay not as loss but as an opportunity for transformation allows us to reimagine our relationship with both the land we grow on and the buildings we inhabit.
