Description
“Greenhouse as a Home” is an experimental project initiated by BIAS Architects & Associates in 2018. Its origins can be traced back to a temporary pavilion that elaborated on Taiwan’s urban-rural settlement system. This expanded the concept of the ‘climatic approach’ to architecture by incorporating a landscape subject, aiming to foster new narratives of human-nature coexistence. BIAS believes this is essential for cultivating the culture of sustainability that is in demand today. Utilizing greenhouse elements and technologies available on the local construction market, the project explores how human daily living spaces could be integrated with plant habitats across artificial climatic variations. This publication, enriched with critical essays by Rosalea Monacella and Julian Raxworthy, accompanies a new theoretical installment of this project in the context of the BAP! – Biennale d’Architecture et de Paysage 2025 and the exhibition “4′ Celsius entre toi et moi” at the ENSA Versailles, curated by Philippe Rahm and Sana Frini.
Courtesy of the author, the digital version of the publication remains freely accessible through this link.
