Chanasya Jannela

AR2057

In the icy basalt ravines of Veedh, Rakshasis construct a living biolab and seed bank without machines, solely directed by their biology and profound ecological atonement. Their altering phenotype protective of their skins affords them the necessity of an open landscape, whilst the materiality of the living breathing walls encases the plants, seeds, and nursery preserve climate and nurture mutation, memory, and regeneration. Symbiotic minerals and plants are harvested non-destructively through biochemical signalling and phenotypic manipulation. The structure's exterior encapsulates circulation and services which manifest from the skin, sculpting a vessel that is adaptive and archival simultaneously. This design investigates the potential and approach of growing rather than building architecture: how bodies, genes, and structures evolve sans apparatus, relying solely on intimate biological design.