When I first wondered whether buildings could be considered an integral part of Nature, I had in mind ancient ruins that have decayed over centuries, providing homes for plants and animals and thus creating an almost symbiotic relationship with the land. But there always seemed to be a resistance between the two – perhaps because, in a sense, Nature is born, and buildings are made. Still, I wanted to find the meeting point between them: that sweet spot, that liminal space where one merges into and almost becomes the other.
My research led me first to conservation builder Alex Gibbons, who specialises ...
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