Humanity has disconnected itself from its environment, with advances in technology framing a perspective that the natural world is not integral. Capitalism prioritizes technological advancement over the preservation of natural balances. Humans monetize natural resources, choosing to exploit them for anthropocentric use rather than prioritizing a more balanced ecosystem. It is critical for humans to change their abuse of the ecological systems that all life depends on. Architecture’s capacity to engage both functional and aesthetic concerns make it uniquely suited to being the technology capable of rectifying humanity’s relationship to the natural world.

This thesis will therefore disrupt humanity’s current structured disconnection through a reprogramming of architecture, demonstrating techniques involving revealing the natural systems that are not initially apparent, blurring the boundaries between humanity and its environment, and integrating non-human subjects, as a way to de-center human subjectivity, cultivate curiosity, respect, and concern for these other lifeforms, and rebuild humanity’s relationship with the natural world to be more enduring and intuitive.