Osaka – Japanese architectural firm Yoshiaki Oyabu Architects is introducing nature into an urban setting in a project called Urban Woods.
The project involves a wooden framework being installed around an existing building in order that plant life can be grown around it.
Head designer Yoshiaki Oyabu said: ‘When it appears in a city, it is a parasitic installation on a commercial building. I want to insert the middle thing between nature and artificiality.’
For more on how city dwellers are rejecting the impersonal nature of globalistion by making their lives as rural as possible see our Rurban Revolution trend.