This drawing explores how architecture transforms when it stops imposing its order and allows the forest to define its own conditions. It explores a shift from “building in a forest” to “building as a forest”.
In the drawing Valldaura Lab is not an object placed in the forest, it is an interpreter of the forest and its conditions. The forest structure, processes and patterns are informing the architecture. The drawing takes four key spaces of Valldaura — the dining room, the FabLab, the Kuka House and the carpentry workshop — and reimagines them as independent pavilions.
Their floors are no longer flat; the natural topography enters each room, reshaping how activities unfold inside. Trees penetrate façades without being forced aside. Each pavilion maintains its original program, but its function becomes subtly redefined by the forest’s presence.
The drawing proposes a way of inhabiting and producing that listens to the intelligence of the landscape, allowing the forest to guide form, use and behavior.
