You have to admire a man who has invented his own “new way of building” and called it archiborescence.

For three decades, this eco-visionary has been imagining and realizing homes, urban landscapes, cities… inspired by all he has been able to observe in natural environments.

There are several things I love about Schuiten’s work. Cosmetically, the organic shapes and colours in his drawings are delightful. More fundamentally the desire to align with nature and to integrate with natural things, to live as a part of nature, rather than apart from nature is beguiling. Schuiten’s cities are a part of the natural landscape, the boundaries between city and country, man and nature are blurred.

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Not quite sure how ‘archiborescence’ can come to bear on my own design, but certainly the drive to integrate and evolve with nature are a shared thread between my desire for my place of my own and Schuiten’s grand philosophy.