death and life of flora: an architectural exploration of flowers

they are alluringly sensuous which invites us to get close to them, interact with them, smell them and be with them. these embodied interactions with flora within our everyday lives are catalysts towards creating positive emotions. when flowers or flora are associated with architecture, society overlooks the significance of the flower with its aesthetic. historically, society associates them as decorative components added to the building as a secondary element.

how can something so small and delicate be translated to architecture in this modern era? this thesis develops from my passion for sensory floral arrangements and questions how they can influence modern architectural construction.

through the methodological analysis of flora and floral arrangement, the research pursues the translation from the unconventional and intangible qualities depicted in flora to the conventional language of architecture. 

this thesis imposes surrealist characteristics of the over-scaling of flora and looks at the qualitative aspects of them. in turn, they are manipulated, composed and represented into a living architecture where the design methods emerge from floral arrangement. the result is an architecture that embodies various extraordinary qualities of selected flora, activating an enticing and sensual experience for users where they become the insect inhabiting the flora.