HORTITECTURE The Power of Architecture and Plants

applied and academic research
OUTLOOK
Architectural design is a form of research and
creative exploration. What I connect with the
term HORTITECTURE emerged from a personal
interest, and is becoming a growing challenge
in our architectural practice.
At GRÜNTUCH ERNST ARCHITECTS we work on
proposals and built experiments trying to reconnect,
repair, and rebalance the human being
with nature in the built environment.
With the increasing digitalization and dematerialization
of the world around us, close contact
to plants in an urban environment is important—it
gives us a full, sensual experience of
life and time.
With the increasing density of cities, additional
buildings should not only have a high architectural
quality, but at the same time activate surfaces
with living plants that could effectively
enhance wellbeing and reduce our footprint on
the built environment. Nature-based architectural
strategies aim for more urban vitality.