Poyang Lake is a seasonal lake located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. During the wet season in summer, it reaches its largest water surface and highest water level, appearing as a lake. Conversely, during the dry season in winter, it shrinks to its smallest surface area and lowest water level, resembling a river.

Local people utilized the unique seasonal hydrological processes, topography, and natural resources of Poyang Lake to develop the traditional water system, a cyclic production system adapted to water dynamics. Agriculture is developed in the polder during the wet season, fishery in the sub-lake during the dry season, and animal husbandry in the wetland, while taking into account the harmonious coexistence with migratory birds and the recycling of resources. This system embodies the original systematic and dynamic thinking of local residents about the landscape and realizes the harmonious relationship between humans and nature in the context of that time.

However, due to the emergence of new influences in the new era, Poyang Lake has faced numerous challenges, including floods, droughts, ecological degradation, and loss of livelihood. As one of the world's most important habitats for migratory birds, Poyang Lake holds significant ecological value. Its unique and varied landscape typologies also contribute to its spatial value. Therefore, this thesis aims to address these issues through landscape architectural tools to enhance ecological value, improve human livelihoods, and ensure the spatial interest of Poyang Lake.

The design project is grounded in systemic thinking, focusing on water, ecology, and livelihood as its main dimensions. It introduces the concept of a rural self-circulation and mediation system, aiming to harmonize the relationship between people and water, as well as between humans and nature, and to operate and circulate autonomously, revitalizing rural areas while protecting the city. The system utilizes the three major landscape typologies of Poyang Lake—polder, sub-lake, and wetland—as spatial carriers, and is designed with continuous scales. Based on specific strategies and design frameworks, diverse spatial principles are logically integrated to ultimately establish a sustainable circular landscape system.

The Delta Program states that the Netherlands must be climate-resilient and water-robust by 2050, posing a great challenge to spatial planning. This imminent challenge of climate adaptation requires a common ground of interdisciplinary approach as monodisciplinary reductionist approaches are often not enough to deal with complex phenomena such as climate change.
In this context, combining information models can support well-informed design decisions, since many interventions related to climate adaptation, such as those related to water storage, soil infiltration and underground spatial management, require a deeper knowledge of subsurface characteristics and configurations.
However, this interdisciplinary approach still face many organizational, technological and institutional barriers, related to inherent characteristics of design and geoinformatics in combination with practical challenges related to standardization and interface of existing products. There has not been yet an integrated approach that relates subsurface information models and local climate adaptation design interventions in a single place even if literature and design examples suggest information needs.
This thesis aims to explores how subsurface information models, in particular 3D ones, can aid the cause of concrete well-informed urban climate adaptation design interventions, identifying the reasons for an under use of existing subsurface data models and assessing existing subsurface information models, both in 2D and 3D, to better understand what are the information requirements for climate adaptation design interventions in the Netherlands.
As climate adaptation can often be a broad concept, this research opted to focus on concrete examples of standards for climate adaptation in urban design, coming from the Leidraad 2.0, the Maatlat, and the Klimaateffectatlas. The interventions used for the design analysis are also standardized and refer to a document published by the Dutch government containing the twenty five most relevant climate adaptation design interventions in the Netherlands.
The study of these interventions, standards, and models, along with the study of their interdependence, indicate information needs for local climate adaptation design.
Therefore, this thesis provides both theoretical and practical foundations for better integrating subsurface data models into standardized urban design practices for climate adaptation. As a result of this research, a tangible tool named CLIMACAT is developed. CLIMACAT integrates pre-existing subsurface information models in accordance with FAIR data principles: ensuring findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability. Subsequently, both the tool and the established information models undergo testing via design proposals across four neighborhoods within the city of Utrecht.

Moving Atmospheres explores the intricate relationship between spatial design and human experience, advocating for an embodied approach to architectural practice. Through a phenomenological lens and experimental approach using personal experiences, the study investigates the nexus of emotion, movement, and spatial perception. Utilizing intuitive movement, exemplified by the practice of improvisational dance, the research aims to uncover insights into the creation of atmospheres within architectural settings. Methodologically, the study employs a structured approach termed the Movement Lab, involving five steps how one could observe, document, translate, interpret, analyse and reflect on the relation between spatial atmospheres and its effect on the body through emotion and behaviour, in this case studied through a zoom onto intuitive movement. In this process, architectural research is conducted using filmmaking, photography and (poetic) writing, conveying the relation between body and space.

Analysis of data collected from diverse environments reveals how spatial qualities shape emotional responses and bodily movements. The findings of this study underscore the complex interplay between spatial atmospheres, emotion, and movement characteristics, highlighting the potential of intuitive movement as a tool for architects to understand and manipulate architectural atmospheres, facilitating the design of immersive and emotionally resonant spaces. By emphasizing the importance of bodily experience in architectural design, the study advocates for a paradigm shift towards more responsive built environments.

Overall, this research contributes valuable insights into the embodied dimensions of architectural practice, encouraging architects to engage with the human body as a central tool for creating meaningful spatial experiences.

Taiwanese landscape has dramatically changed since 2018, when the Energy Transition White Paper was published. Due to the land limitation, the Taiwanese government has focused on the multifunctional use of land to create renewable energy and maintain the original activities on the ground at the same time, especially on agricultural lands. However, realistic situations are far from the ideal proposed. Tons of aquacultural and agricultural lands have become fragmented, damaging the landscape and even causing hidden threats: farmers’ work rights losses, food security issues, and ecosystem hazards. The reason for these derivative problems is complicated and cannot be blamed on a single factor. But the key argument in this thesis is because of the lack of integration of spatial and social perspectives in energy transition programs. Therefore, energy justice in this thesis focuses on the discussion of the derivative problems led by the consequence of neglected perspectives in the energy transition. From a spatial perspective, Taiwan currently has three separate spatial planning systems, urban, regional, and national park planning systems. Each of them follows different laws and manages the land use type in its own way. Due to the development-oriented planning, some land use types have more flexibility and looser regulation in terms of construction. And due to this fact, energy developers work with landowners to apply for changes in land use from aquaculture or agriculture to specific land uses to generate the most renewable energy, losing the purpose of multifunctional use and resulting in absurd landscape changes. More specifically, the lack of holistic spatial planning and the integration with the energy transition plan makes responsibility unclear that causing collaboration between sectors more difficult. The systemic deficiency has led to social consequences with the injustice mentioned above that have yet to have specific orders and measures to be addressed, exacerbating the public's untrust of the energy transition. In 2025, a new integrated planning system called National Spatial Planning will be implemented as a holistic spatial planning system. It merges current planning systems and includes the marine spatial area. Thus, this thesis chose Changhua County, an area with high renewable energy development but huge hidden threats in various domains, as the case study area to test how to integrate this new spatial planning system based on purposes of different zoning with energy strategies that include spatial and social aspects. There are three products in this thesis. First, the energyscape template design demonstrates how to prevent hidden threats and create procedural and distributional justice based on the considerations of societal factors that influence people’s acceptance of the energy transition. Second, regional strategies with spatial and social perspectives to examine value creation that rebalances regional development, bringing back identities to uncompetitive areas that are neglected or sacrificed within the energy transition process. Lastly, developing National energy transition advice, operational or strategic, to help create a justice energy transition in Taiwan.

Cities worldwide are grappling with spatial constraints, particularly in rapidly growing urban areas. Rotterdam, as an aspiring sustainable city, faces similar challenges in balancing sustainability goals with limited space. This predicament extends to the underutilized rooftop spaces across the city. While initiatives like the “multifunction rooftop” program and “Rotterdam Rooftop Days” have made inroads, the issue of unused rooftops persists. The primary obstacle often cited is cost, but cost is a relative factor, dependent on the unique values held by different stakeholders, buildings, and neighbourhoods. Several approaches to activate these rooftops have emerged but often lack consideration for the perspectives of rooftop stakeholders.
This report introduces a novel strategy aimed at bridging the gap between municipal sustainability goals and the interests of rooftop stakeholders. The strategy leverages pattern language principles, providing a flexible framework for tailoring rooftop solutions to diverse scenarios. It not only assists stakeholders in conceptualizing rooftop designs but also aligns them with their values. To illustrate the strategy’s effectiveness, it is applied to a neighbourhood case study, wherein various rooftop types are designed in alignment with the proposed principles.

This project explores the potential of a specific type of natural-based decentralised wastewater treatment solution in a fast-growing area: Campbelltown local government area (LGA), Sydney, with a focus on experimental design based on different densification scenarios and centralisation level of treatment scheme. The analysis and design are carried on for three scales: Greater Sydney area, Campbelltown LGA, and two samples sites in the city centre of Campbelltown LGA. for Greater Sydney area, the design is revealed as a long-term and all-rounded proposal; for the main city centre of Campbelltown LGA, the design focuses on the redevelopment and functional division of its main water bone Bowbowing Creek to serve as a treatment media. In order to experiment the schemes in detail, Leumeah centre and Campbelltown centre are designed with 6 scenarios (2 densification scenarios x 3 levels of treatment centrlisation) for each site.

The results are evaluated with the same criteria, which reveals the feasibility, pros and cons of each scenario while confirming the possibility of implementing decentralised wastewater treatment in this area although it does not bring out the same performance for all the scenarios. Further research can be carried out to simulate the long-term performance of the schemes and to test the performance with different technical components of DEWATS for the locations.

In my graduation project I have researched the relation between built space and open space in the urban context. With the current densification challenge in Utrecht much more built volume is added to the city, increasing the pressure on open space. Open space is of great importance in securing urban liveability and has in particular many environmental values. By proposing redesigns in the neighborhood of Rivierenwijk, both the quantity and quality of open space is improved, enabling a sustainable densification potential. Central in these redesigns are environmental aspects regarding climate resilience and biodiversity and how they can be reinforced in the urban open space. Therefore contributing in the transition of Utrecht to become a more climate resilient and nature-inclusive city.

In a world of rapidly rising numbers of forcibly displaced people, most refugee/IDP camps are designed as short-term shelter facility when no alternative is available. However, the average time a United Nations (UN) planned refugee camp functions, is seventeen years. This temporal disparity is not necessarily a problem on its own, however during these protracted situations the need for normalcy, perspective and especially dignity grows.
Besides a reduced level of livability, a lack of dignity also leads to both physical and psychological health issues. This leads to the main aim of this project, namely, to enhance dignity in planned camps. Taking the mandate of the UNHCR into account, the focus will be on UNHCR planned refugee camps. Based on a literature review conducted in the theoretical framework, the premise of this graduation project is that dignity is positively influenced by self-determination, which in turn is enhanced by spatial self-determination and (informal) economic activity in a situation where first needs (e.g. food, water, shelter) are met. This results in the main research question: “How can a modular framework of interventions enhance a sense of spatial self-determination and foster (informal) economic activity in UNHCR planned refugee camps while maintaining a non-permanent character and remaining adaptable to scale changes?”. This question will be answered through eight sub-questions that reflect the different phases of the iterative ‘analysis-design process’ of this project. In this process four methods will be used to answer these questions by providing insight in the involved concepts, current practices and how (informal) economic activity and/or spatial self-determination is improved in other (urban) contexts. These methods are: a literature review, a best case review, interviewing and a multiple case study (using the Syrian Conflict as umbrella case).

The final product of this graduation project will consist of two perspectives, a flow-related perspective and a spatial design perspective. With regard to the flow-perspective, a guiding principle for each UNHCR camp construction phase to enhance foremost (informal) economic activity and to a lesser extend spatial self-determination is presented. Besides, a strategy consisting of multiple modular interventions on how to implement each of them is included, using Qushtapa Refugee Camp as test-case. With regard to the spatial perspective, three frameworks of design-principles are given. Each framework enhances (informal) economic activity and/or spatial self-determination in the context of a UNHCR planned refugee camp on a specific scale (communal scale, block/sector scale and camp/settlement scale). Regarding all three frameworks, a design is made in Qushtapa Refugee Camp, including a strategy on how to implement them throughout the standard UNHCR phases, to test and illustrate the design principles. Both perspectives have a modular nature. However, they also have multiple interfaces and can be integrated into one another.

In general, all proposed interventions are deemed realistic by an expert panel and regarding three different topics, material wise, labor wise and with regard to the UNHCR-Mandate and UNHCR standards. Last, since the UNHCR strives to provide the same ‘service’ everywhere, the proposed principles and designs, may also be applicable in other cases than cases relating to the Syrian conflict.

The field of architecture is extensively faced with densification and gentrification. In pre-war neighbourhoods there is a dilemma between adding housing stock and simultaneously improving the existing stock in terms of sustainability. In the contemporary society these neighbourhoods are distinguished as troubled areas with unilateral demographical social class, poverty, below-average health issues and poor quality of public space. Gentrification aims on one hand to introduce a new diversity in these neighbourhoods and on the other improve the quality of the public space. Without municipal interference, repression and displacement of current inhabitants becomes inevitable and the opposite of diversification occurs. Consequently, municipalities recognizes the phenomena and introduce new regulation to cope with the issue and prevent the displacement of inhabitants. By replacing the old stock of building they set the condition that social housing can’t be reduced and by densifying the already existing social housing should be rebuild. These visions result in a new social cohesion wherein different contradictory groups co-exist in the neighbourhood with more contrasts in society. Public buildings have to deal with tensions and contrasts of the site-specific condition in order to guide the process of gentrification and should offer an act of interchangeability in which groups can benefit from each other socially, culturally and personally. The negative connotation of gentrification can turned around with public building to function as precursor that emphasizes a new rich layer of exchange between all present groups. An interchangeability that is able, within the converging multiple purposes of the building, to lift contrast between the ‘gentrified’ and the ‘gentrifier’ and emphasise the notion of generic properties of human behaviour and stressing the interaction of cultural activities of exchange and equality.

Urban planners and decision-makers face several challenges in keeping cities liveable. Getting a well-working urban freight system is one of these underexposed challenges, where there is still a lack of knowledge and awareness among them. Current freight policies are insufficient to tackle the increasing negative externalities due to lack of knowledge and awareness on urban freight and measures. The problem of increasing urban freight activities in cities can be considered as a generic problem, however, it will need different solutions, dependent on the characteristics of each urban area. With the Rotterdam-The Hague Metropolitan Area (MRDH) as a case study, the project aims to develop a strategic framework for local authorities to accommodate the increasing logistic demand of retailers while reducing negative transport externalities. The research has proposed a two folded solution for the spatial organisation of urban freight: urban consolidation (bundling flows of freight) and urban multimodality (using multiple modes). Based on the strategic framework and design proposals, it can be concluded that changing the spatial organisation of urban freight could potentially reduce the number of freight kilometres in the MRDH and thus negative externalities. There is a huge potential for urban multimodality (especially on the water) when integrated into urban freight strategies. A well-considered allocation of urban consolidation centres and other proposed nodes can create several synergies and strengthen this potential. Proposed interventions contribute to the liveability of the city by reducing the number of trucks in ‘vulnerable’ urban areas. Ultimately, the strategic framework gives new perspectives of urban freight to local authorities and can be environmental, social en economical beneficial and improve liveability.

The Netherlands has a strong tradition of blueprint planning in spatial design. Since the financial crisis of 2008, a shift has been made to more organic approaches to development. Currently, a paradigm is evolving which is able to deal with complex challenges that the built environment faces today: a shortage of housing and a transition to sustainable energy. Industrial area Schieoevers Noord, situated in Delft, is developed with the rationale of this new paradigm: directing into the direction of a mixed-use and densified city district, yet with an open end. Since the Municipality of Delft does not own land in the 75 hectares large district, interdependencies exist between the municipality, project developers, and the current users: industrial companies. The problem statement of this research project: how to plan for sustainable energy supply (heat and cold supply) in a complex context characterised by interdependencies. The concept of adaptivity has been explored as a potential strategy to implement in a process of sustainable energy planning, resulting in the design of a five-step approach: the Schieoevers Noord approach for adaptive energy planning. Six characteristics of adaptive processes have been found based on a literature review. Three of these turned out to be absent in current approaches for sustainable energy planning: a way to explicitly incorporate uncertainties (unpredictability and interdependency) in planning, mechanisms for iteration, and the creation of conditions for development (rather than planning actual developments). The latter has been intensively studied by investigating heat and cold balances in different building scenarios (densities and function mixes), concluding in the need to shape conditions for development in Schieoevers Noord, by the proposal of energy-based design guidelines, ensuring energy-neutral developments, no matter the building volume or mix of building functions.

Urban development in the Rijnmond-Drechsteden requires large quantities of sand and gravel for its application in e.g. concrete in buildings or fill sand for subsidence maintenance. The graduation project focuses on how urban design can reduce this consumption within the sand and gravel metabolism in the construction ecosystem. Based on a material flow analysis, extended with a dynamic stock model and material intensity study, a business as usual scenario is made for the region. An exploration of solutions and a new developed method, called the ‘material conscious approach’, is used to reduce material consumption in four urban design examples. These examples represent different conditions in the sand and gravel metabolism which cause flows. The results are extrapolated to the regional metabolic impact. In order to reduce the material consumption of sand and gravel, a multi-scalar perspective within the material conscious approach is required.

The era of energy transition has brought to the front, the incredible potential of designing the reciprocal relationship between energy and space. The transition to renewable sources of energy like wind, solar and geothermal energy, uses space in a different way- its altered spatial qualities have blurred the boundaries between technical space (shunned by planners) and ‘non-technical’ space (coveted by planners). This spatial dimension of energy transition is the focus of the graduation project. Taking the case of Tamil Nadu, India, the project proposes a re-imagination of emerging energy geographies through regional design and spatial strategies, to create a framework for a humanised energy transition.

Research Question: How can regional design of emerging energy geographies create a framework for a just energy transition in Tamil Nadu?

A large part of the Dutch landscape is used by agriculture, and the two are strongly related. However, the current agricultural system has problems with sustainability, leading for example to the loss of biodiversity, soil degradation, water pollution and high emissions of greenhouse gases. Besides ecological issues, economic and social problems are present as well. The current way of farming has turned the landscape in an industrial, monotone area, losing characteristic landscape elements.

The project explores in what way agroecology and ecological principles can provide a sustainable solution to agriculture on the landscape level. The polders around Zoetermeer serve as a case study, showing how the existing landscape can be used as a starting point for the spatial implementation of sustainable farming solutions. Linking ecological principles, problems of sustainability and different areas together, a toolbox for the design of the area is formed. The end result offers a perspective on the functioning and appearance of an ecological farming landscape, using the concept of diversity, connectivity and circularity.

‘Machinic Utopias, Automated Futures’ speculates on the role of designers as active agents addressing the potential implications of automated technologies on urban space in the specific context of the horticultural production center in the Westland. Successive expansions of greenhouses and their typological and technological transformations have resulted in an unprecedented productive cluster that conditions both the spatial character and structure of Westland and its social dynamics. Shortages of high-skilled labor, international competition, and pressures to reduce production costs have prompted growers to invest in automated technologies and machinery. While mostly concealed inside greenhouses and overlooked by municipal visions, this project portrays how these technologies have spatial implications on the surrounding social and built environment, and on the future of work, that need to be addressed by designers in order to conduce the Westland to sustainable modes of urbanization. The project shifts from the socio-economic debate on automation to highlight the spatial implications of this phenomenon. In this regard, it documents emergent technologies and production processes in the horticulture productive cluster and depicts successive accretions in greenhouse sizes that are analogous to radical technological shifts and changes in production patterns. With the help of scenarios, the project formulated possible futures for Westland. An overall strategy consisted of shifting productive premises from one part of the cluster to another. Productive premises were merged with existing urban components to create mixed-use sustainable urban typologies afforded by automated technologies. The project culminated in a design for two pilot projects - Maasdijk and Honderland- and assumed automation as a platform that forced new spatial conditions. It engaged with the emergent phenomenon of automation to stir development in Westland and conduce the area to sustainable modes of urbanization.

This thesis seeks to explore relations between Urban Metabolism’s framework and regional planning in Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Area (RMBH) - Brazil, and possible solutions to promote sustainable development through a better management of resources. In order to do so, the problem field defined in this research focuses on the area’s rapid urbanization heritage and its main environmental pressures. The research also restrains itself to wastewater and solid waste flows, pointing out their urgencies and opportunities through the combination of territorial, policy and metabolic analysis, providing a new perspective on the urban comprehension of the region. In combination, this thesis puts forward a catalog of solutions and a regional strategy. The proposal embraces the regional scale, the flows perspective and specific challenges due to rapid urbanization processes, translated into 4 different systems applied in regional clusters. It also explores the spatial implications of the proposed strategy, together with local governance and stakeholders with two test cases: Belo Horizonte and Ribeirão das Neves. Moreover, by understanding the metropolitan region as part of the same tissue rather than seeing it as a poor version of the capital, this thesis contributes towards, not only diminishing the existing inequality, but also strengthening the region as a whole. Lastly, this thesis reflects upon the translation between theory and design, within the concept of Urban Metabolism, contributing to the academic field.

The Amsterdam Metropolitan area, and especially Amsterdam city, attracts large amounts of people due to the diverse economy opportunities, cultural and recreational activities, and the strong connection of the region by public transport and road network. The need for space, resources, and mobility are increasing and will keep increasing due to the growth of population and, thus, the rise of demand. This unbalanced distribution requires full use of spaces and resources.

The main focus of the project is to identify what causes this unbalanced distribution by researching the different densities of the region, in order to make the region more stable and move it towards the circular economy. At the same time, the project focuses on the spatial conditions of the different neighbourhoods and tries to increase the livability levels in order for the general quality of life of the citizens will be improved. The main tool that we used during our research, but also later on the vision and strategy plan, is density. Firstly, we analyze the region by understating what the different densities that can be found in it are, and how they work. Afterwards, the focus shifts to the analysis of the different neighborhoods, trying to determinate and understand the different densities that can be found in the small scale. Finally, we try to find what opportunities and potential do these densities create for the different neighborhoods.

By analyzing the different densities and typologies in the region, we highlight the importance of sharing spaces in terms of facilities, transportation, and waste management for the inhabitants, in order to help AMA move towards a more sustainable and balanced future direction.

The innovations that we make depend on the existing situation, the density, and the character of the city. Taking into account these aspects and the regional analysis, we decide what needs to be densified in terms of facilities. These new density developments either make the existing identities of the city stronger, or, in the cases of lack of identity, we propose new ones to be adopted.

This interpretations will release the pressure on Amsterdam city, balance the region, create more livable spaces, and move the AMA towards circularity.

The Metropolitan Region of Amsterdam (AMA) has proposed a transition from its current linear economic model to a circular one (Sustainable Amsterdam, 2015). However, the proposed strategy is based mainly on the participation of actors from the world of business and industry, relegating social actors to a peripheral level of its implementation. Additionally, the region is experiencing an important process of floating population in which we can identify different groups: students, expats, tourists and commuters. This process is influencing trends of gentrification, ethnic segregation, and suburbanization and is expected going to increase in the future. The project that we propose seeks to connect communities and material chains from an integrated approach, social and economical. The project is based on the incorporation of the students through the region as a pioneer group for sustainable, economic and social development. Students represent a social capital that is necessary for the development of the region. However, at the same time they are a group that currently is experiencing vulnerability and lack of integration. In this way, through a multi-scale study and an urban acupuncture strategy, the location of this group is projected into strategic areas in order to encourage social sustainability and inclusive economic development.

The worldwide trends of depleting natural resources and increasing generation of waste create challenges concerning the development and growth of our cities. Urban growth is enforcing these trends, resulting in growing problems and reaching limitations to the growth of our economies. In this thesis, these worldwide trends will be challenged in the city of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The concept of circular economy is used to improve residential waste collection and treatment to close loops and reduce environmental impact. Amsterdam is a fast growing city and has many spatial challenges related to this growth. A new more integrated system for residential waste treatment and collection is needed. In this way, the city can live up to its high circular ambitions and reach their set goals in a short time frame. To conquer these challenges, a link between circular economy and urban design is made. Circular concepts can now be translated to urban systems, creating possibilities for urban integration. In this way, circular economy becomes part of the city, interacts with other systems and circular economy evolves in a economic, social and environmental concept which contributes to sustainable development of our cities in the future. The circular proposals are integrated in Amsterdam, taking into account the great diversity in urban forms and possible connections to existing systems. This all results in a list of recommendations for the municipality on how to improve their vision and continue with their circular ambitions. The main recommendations concluded from this research are:

1. Waste treatment and collection should connect to existing urban systems, creating more support and integration within daily lives.

2. Circular economy does not have just a economic value. Circular waste treatment can contribute to the city, strengthen communities and improve living quality .

3. The value of circular waste treatment needs to experienced by the residents themselves. It will contribute to the motivation and will support a change in disposal behaviour.

4. Separate waste collection should be available for all the residents of Amsterdam. It will require large investments in some parts of the city. However, by making clever use of existing structures, improvement can be made fast and without tremendous costs.

An architectural project for a biodiverse embassy, creating a place for close encounters with the other creatures of the city. The goal is to create awareness and interraction with other species both on a local and global scale and provide the means for a biodiverse community of urban species.