The Architecture of Rewilding: Designing for Ecosystem Recovery

The Architecture of Rewilding: Designing for Ecosystem Recovery

NDSM Lusthof / Studio Ossidiana. Image Courtesy of Studio Ossidiana, Riccardo de Vecchi As climate instability reshapes design priorities, architecture is increasingly drawn into ecological debates not as a spectator but as a participant. Among the concepts gaining traction is rewilding, a practice rooted in the restoration of self-sustaining ecosystems through the reintroduction of biodiversity, the removal of barriers, and the rebalancing of h…

Why failure is an option in the built environment

Having long designed to ensure infrastructure in the built environment is fail-safe, engineers are now leaning toward the concept of fail-soft.In Infrastructure Australia’s Resilience Principles document, there are several mentions of the fact that resilient infrastructure and communities are not just robust and fail-safe, but are also safe to fail.At first, these terms seem contradictory. However, as engineers are increasingly realising they ca…