Publication: BiodiverCity: Urban Typology Informed by Coral Morphology for Ecological Integration in Urbanism
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Thesis
Degree
BA
Date
2025
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Abstract
This thesis project reimagines the role of urban architecture within its local
urban ecosystem aiming to shift its purpose from a purely anthropocentric
serving object into a living organism that functions in participation with its
human and non-human inhabitants. The research dives into the roles of corals
within their respective ecosystem, the coral reef, and analyses how their
forms and functions are beneficial to the biodiverse and resilient ecosystem
that they support. The design project aims to translate these findings in order
to transform a human-centric object that disrupts natural environments into
a structure that breathes life into the urban ecosystem through the physical,
as well as ecological accommodation of local biodiversity.