Unbuilding Anthropocentric Urban Fabrics
How To Respond To Our Increasingly Entangled Ecological Relationship Through Posthuman Facades?
This essay explores three innovative architectural projects—The Birds and the Bees, Orgone Reef, and Baubontanik—that challenge conventional notions of human domesticity and provoke a reevaluation of our relationship with nature. These projects embody sustainable and transformative design traits outlined by Piccinno's taxonomy, such as modularity, adaptability to local ecology, and co-production with nonhuman agencies. They envision facades as more than building envelopes, incorporating habitation spaces, ecological considerations, and the potential for reversibility. The essay advocates for critical discourse and knowledge generation, emphasising a multispecies, non-anthropocentric approach to posthuman facades. Ultimately, the journey towards posthuman architecture requires ongoing learning, experimentation, and a departure from a capitalist mindset, fostering care and actions that embrace the infinite possibilities of coexistence with nature.