Living in Nature

We have developed an idea that will pave the way for the organic and open growth of collective
living, a way of life envisaged by people who want to create communities in leafy surroundings.
To us, living with others and in harmony with nature was an important starting point for the concept: collective living in nature.
Inspired by our idea, we produced a plan that uses the Fibonacci Sequence to facilitate the natural
evolution of small communities into bigger communities, in partnership with nature and trees.
Biodiversity is strengthened by different types of open community too, each of which makes its own contribution to the diversity of green planting.
Collective living is an integral part of the architecture and the nature. The homes are perched on an
elevation above the forest floor, the forest landscape continuing uninterrupted beneath and around the houses.
The exterior walls on the ground floor are made out of mirrored glass, making the plinth of the home
de-materialise, as it were. It seems not to exist at all, giving the upper floors an appearance of
‘floating’ in between the trees and the ground. The variety of trees separating the homes and on the
terraces amplifies the image that everything becomes one with the surroundings.
The upper floor consists of timber frames with panoramic cut-outs offering grand views.
It is an omnifaceted building where, on the first floor, the spacious roof terraces provide ample opportunity for
quality, diverse outdoor living.

Biodiversity is a key feature on the roof terraces, including a common vegetable and fruit garden on
the first floor; the possibility for residents to cultivate their own fruit, vegetables and herbs adds to
this unique quality of living. The vegetable garden and the other plants receive storage rainwater, as well as
water from the greywater system.