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Embracing organic and inorganic flows, Sofia Saey

How can natural elements flow through a building to support green and blue networks while ensuring human comfort? Environmental conditions are accepted and taken into the design, enhancing and using attributes of the natural environment. In our urban canvas, blue and green networks intertwine like nature’s veins through the city’s core. Blue, the calm flow of waters, and green, the embrace of life with its vegetation and animal crossings, weave a unified tapestry.

Different flows; the flow of non-living organisms and living organisms entering the building crossing each other and exiting the building influencing the spaces within and the occupants. The building acts as a passage. These flows allow the office spaces to change, in time and during different seasons.

Nature can be defined as comfort because nature changes and evolves. 

The low-tech architectural approach remains perpetually unfinished, integrating natural elements like sun orientation and wind flows, alongside traditional methods such as operable windows and soothing sounds like falling water to counter disruptions. 

The separation of inside and outside are typically articulated with harsh boundaries, like inoperable windows or spaces, or having a constant temperature at all times. In this design, boundaries transform into intermediate spaces that allow a gradience from space to space. Making spaces manually adaptable allows a social, interactive approach.