Abstract:

Coexistence is often understood as the ability of different groups of people to live together. This project expands that definition to include all living systems, particularly plant species whose survival underpins planetary life. Today, humans exercise disproportionate agency over the Earth. Although impacts are rarely directed at plants intentionally, human activity drives climate change, habitat loss, and ecological instability, accelerating biodiversity decline and revealing a fundamental imbalance: humans act while other life forms are acted upon. To rethink coexistence, architecture must move beyond serving human needs alone and cultivate awareness of the ecological systems that sustain life. The project proposes architecture as a mediating interface that preserves biodiversity while making ecological intelligence perceptible. By rendering environmental data and species vulnerability spatially visible, architecture transforms information into lived experience and fosters environmental responsibility. Because ecological systems generate data too vast for human cognition alone, the proposal employs tailored artificial intelligence to process environmental datasets and inform spatial formation. Trained on real ecological data and synthetic architectural datasets produced through algorithmic design, the system generates adaptive spatial configurations capable of self-organizing and evolving, forming a living architecture that responds to changing planetary conditions.