Competition Natura Naturans Pavillon Paris

In charge for Design (concept, SD, DD)completion

Location: Paris, France

Client: GFA

Budget: 500.000 €

With Agata Brusetti

The Natura Naturans Pavilion was conceived as a temporary installation for Paris exploring the relationship between architecture, ecology, and the self-organizing processes of nature. The project takes its name from the philosophical concept of natura naturans—nature understood not as a static condition but as a continuous process of generation and transformation.

The pavilion is designed as a lightweight, open structure that allows vegetation, light, and climate to become active components of the architectural space. Rather than defining a closed building, the project creates a porous spatial framework where natural growth and human occupation coexist. A system of modular wooden frames forms the primary structure, supporting suspended planting systems that gradually transform the pavilion over time.

As plants grow and adapt to seasonal cycles, the architecture evolves, creating changing patterns of shade, humidity, and light. Visitors move through a sequence of semi-covered spaces where the boundaries between built form and living matter remain intentionally blurred.

The pavilion also functions as an educational platform, hosting small exhibitions, workshops, and discussions related to urban ecology and sustainable design. Through its evolving landscape and minimal architectural footprint, the project proposes an architecture that acts less as an object and more as a catalyst for ecological processes within the urban environment.

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