Branch Plant

Founded in 1995, PLANT Architect is an interdisciplinary firm that branches into the domains of architecture, landscape, ecology, furniture, art and graphic design. Synthesizing the insights and expertise of related disciplines, the practice responds to and embraces the increasing complexity of the world and the ambiguity of where landscape, built-form and design intersect. PLANT’s integrated approach fosters a collaborative spirit, a multi-layered design solution and enriches each project with a fine grain of detail.

The firm’s name is dually inspired by a place in which things are made, reflecting an emphasis on process, craft and construction, and by a deep-rooted connection to the environment, to a sense of place, landscape and natural materials.

office pod shed love

The Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven

Using cherry pickers and a complex network of elastic bands so that the tree will grow unimpeded, the sculptural habitat
appears spontaneous but directly reflects the local architectural context
london fieldworks

beautiful book- inside and out

Unless biodiversity is considered early on in the design process, these ever more stringent demands for increased energy efficiency of buildings will lead to losses in the biodiversity that have shared our built environment for centuries - Dr. Carol Williams

window

photo from here

because the earth laughs in flowers

take out flowers/ how to carry flowers in daily life. here

make/break

Karl Maier

prevent hastiness

Imagine a project that does not need to be constructed, because – being a tree - it grows by itself.
Such a project only needs to be planted... The only materials to be transported are the seeds for planting. And the only energy spent is to prevent hastiness and impetuousness as such a project needs a lot of time and patience to grow

A TREE, Bureau of Architecture, Research and Design (BOARD)

i like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic (george carlin)

Inspired by the tenacious plants that pioneer the tiny cracks of the urban landscape, the formal rows of this garden create order in the random and mixed planting of herbs, vegetables, strange flowers, and rogue weeds.

CMG, crack garden (a personal favourite)

the minister's treehouse

Seven years ago, Horace Burgess prayed and received divine inspiration. God said unto him "If you build me a treehouse, I’ll see you never run out of material." And so Horace built, and built, and built... from here