15th June – 12 July 2019
To celebrate the London Festival of Architecture, Futurecity and Atelier Ten present HUMANATURE, an exhibition exploring the innovative ways in which design can merge the human-made and natural worlds.
Looking at four Atelier Ten projects across three continents, we explore the adaptable capacity of nature to work within and around the built world as a vital agent of social, physical and environmental wellbeing.
On the walls that follow, vertical office towers wrapped in greenery twist upward; biome conservatories shelter human discovery; raindrops accumulate and release through the roof oculus of an airport, astonishing passengers with the force of falling water. A leading conservation centre brings the natural environment indoors to help humans thrive. Whether plants are invited into a human environment, or humans become guests in a plant world – the boundaries between manmade and natural are blurring.
Building sustainably continues to mean building for the future.
Read more about the exhibition at Atelier Ten
Atelier Ten www.atelierten.com
Foyles foyles.co.uk/
Gallery at Foyles galleryatfoyles.com
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The Gallery at Foyles is a distinct space located on the fifth floor of the Foyles bookshop at 107 Charing Cross Road. The gallery is curated and managed by cultural placemaking agency Futurecity. For five years, Futurecity has worked in partnership to unlock ideas, images, critical discourse, opinion, record and wonder permeating through the books and music contained within the store.
Photo of Jewel Changi Airport © Jewel Changi Airport Development