Natural systems offer architects and designers significant potential as alternative, ecologically performative architectonic strategies. The d3 Natural Systems competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based influences in architecture, urbanism, interiors, and designed objects.
Established in 2009, the annual d3 Natural Systems competition has grown to become a leading voice in sustainable architecture. Recently published in London-based Wiley-Blackwell AD journal's theme issue "The New Pastoralism: Landscape into Architecture" as a leading example of environmental innovation, the annual d3 Natural Systems competition is an emerging voice in ecological architecture and one of the most notable awards in speculative, performance-based design. It recognizes exemplary ideas that redefine architecture as an ecological project through the implementation of advanced programs, technologies, materials, and social interventions that engage adaptability, globalization, and emergence.
The 2014 competition calls for innovative proposals that advance sustainable thought and performance through the study of intrinsic environmental geometries, behaviors, and flows. By identifying, examining, and applying their structural order on form and function--bottom-up, performance-based solutions for limitless building typologies, functional programs, and material conditions may be realized.
For more information, please go to the competition's official website.
