Civilized enclaves of wilderness: substitutes for an alienated urban nature

摘要

The article stresses the inspirational capacity of spontaneous vegetation condensed in spaces defined by human oblivion, such as derelict structures and untamed lots. According to the holstering capacity of the medium, isolated cases (weeds sprouting on crumbling walls), or emulating natural habitats (wasteland flora) developed into a wasteland nature propagating as a consequence of dysfunctional urbanization. Because of increased infrastructure development and urbanization, spaces passable of accommodating such unintended design occurrences recede. Such crude source of inspiration for inoculating nature into architecture and design is to be found within the parameters of enduring, unintended, free form compositions of opportunistic vegetation. The article aims at hosting an alternative to current urban order, in what concerns a contextualized human-nature interaction, launching a thinking scheme for rewinding and sustaining the urge toward soil and nature.