Since the beginning of architecture, nature has been always a great protagonist that conditions,
violates but also reinforces, and challenges it. Architects always try to create a connection
between the exterior and the interior to benefit from nature and feel protected by it. Large
openings, terraces, greenhouses, vegetation, are all strategies to achieve living in a natural
environment, but in reality, the homes still belong to the artificial world. So, how do we connect
two worlds that are completely different? How do we pretend to add to the outside world if we
do not play by its rules inside? We can be connected with nature, but how are we going to deal
with the problems we cause outside if we do not start with the inside of our homes? The project
I am proposing in this master dissertation intends to look at the reality of nature from a different
perspective in order to capture the invisible and add something valuable and different to future
designs. An additional lens to look at reality differently, to change the habit of looking we
currently have and register it to become aware of what we share the space with, our
surroundings. This way we can become better neighbors than rulers of things in the space we
live in.
This master dissertation focuses on the universe of a home. Nevertheless, there is not only one
universe existing inside our homes but many that are invisible to our eyes, maybe because they
are too small for our perception, or, on the contrary, because they are too big that we cannot
observe them. All these scales come together in one living space and coexist even if we do not
pay attention to them. If we think only about the human scale, we are missing multiple things
that can help us better understand the role of architecture. There are existing technologies that
made us aware and enable u to look at and register these various scales, however, to date no
technology has enabled us to see them simultaneously. This idea of the different scales of
universes in nature that we can encounter inside architecture is what motivates the rest of the
studies present in this project. An added sensibility to our surroundings that leads to more
ecological designs and balanced reciprocal relationship with nature.
