“Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man; space, the air, the river, the leaf”. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 1836).
The view on nature as something unchanged by man is still and has been for hundreds of years a commonly shared one. Today, the situation has changed so dramatically that nature by the common definition does not exist anymore. We now control 75% all ice-free land because of industrialization, agriculture and urban growth. Each year humans extract 60-100 billion tons of material from earth. Now, we live in a post-nature world were our impact affects all-natural processes and systems.
The project seeks to illustrate climate change in relation to the idea about nature as unchanged by humans. It consists of a structure which adapts to its surroundings and filters away a surplus of weather conditions such as wind, temperature and precipitation. The center of the structure is an interior which has the conditions of pre-industrial nature.