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natural arhitecture

The idea of nature is an abstraction, varying in cultures, places, periods and context. It has the multiplicity of processes and things which is held under a bigger umbrella known as NATURE. Known as the most complex word, the concept of it is ensued to religion, politics and beliefs about what is normal and abnormal, right or wrong in a certain situation. Invoking nature is the idea of imagining, imitating or getting influenced by this single phenomenon which universally constitutes different meanings being totally disparate from one another. Nature as a material resource is rarely mentioned but creating original works unlike anything seen before is given authority as natural, new, unordinary work.

The cycle of nature is self sustained and has the fundamental approach to regain its system of production and consumption. Considered as inescapably social, the argument serves dominant social interests. Social nature can simply be the wilderness, natural hazards or even the human body as it has the system of regaining its original form by different ways, processes having multitude of implications.

We chose our own objects of discourse as our aspects add qualities of nature. It is always related to God, Power, Agency, Humans, culture and Society. It is often referred to as the surroundings, climate in conversations of colonial discourse. Combined with gender, concepts it leads to the opinion on being pure, natural and organic. Natural moreover is a sole soothing quality given or associated to give a sense or feeling of authenticity, untouched by humans, in the pattern holding an innate phenomenon. It’s a process where humans cannot intervene in the ideal situation.

Looking in the field of architecture and design this idea of nature and natural is befuddling, confounded to justify a product of essential phenomena and human artifice. When a work is referred to as natural or ecological it is loudly given authority of nature being as the central justification. All the architects perceive this term differently and use it as per to convince the larger public that they are designing something which is as good, as pure, as truthful as nature.

For example, to Frank Lyold Wright, nature was the manifestation of God, where everyone can learn from this body of god known as Nature whereas other architects just imitate the form of the building as a flower or a tree which is natural and its properties can’t be controlled by humans. So nature in architecture or natural is seen as a process or quality which is different to all the practitioners giving a demonstration of their understanding of this term of “Nature”.