“Vibrant Matter” is a radical proposal based on the productive and phenomenological colonization of the landscape. In Anttila we find ourselves in a fascinating environment, near the lake Tuusula, in which there is a cultural predisposition to the search for harmony between THE HUMAN —urban development and architecture— and, in addition, a clear identity and an intrinsic respect towards NATURE —lake and forests—. These two characteristics mark the guideline of this proposal; however now we want to grant a new condition: to create a symbiosis of greater intensity of the existing one between the HUMAN AND NATURE; we want to balance the architecture and the landscape to the maximum. Several questions arise during this research: Is it possible to imagine an urbanism that does not dissipate the limits of the forest or that even increases it? Is it possible to imagine a neighborhood that is perceived at the same time a forest or, on the contrary, a forest in which a neighborhood is inserted almost without being appreciated? This is an opportunity to investigate new spatialities for living, where the urban condition and the value of the landscape can be merged as a single system. Of course, this perspective approaches theoretical references such as that of the philosopher Jane Bennet, whose work revolves around a series of ontological ideas about the relationship of humans and things, and as “The Third Landscape Manifesto” by Gilles Clément, which tries to register those situations in which nature is capable of recovering, or better said, of reconquering residual or marginal spaces of what we can call the human. Our proposal tries to generate, instead, one step further. That is to say: urban spaces that do not come into conflict with nature but that welcome it, that merge with it and get to beat at the same frequency. “Vibrant Matter” pursues, therefore, to generate a “fourth landscape”.
“Vibrant Matter” is a radical proposal based on the productive and phenomenological colonization of the landscape. In Anttila we find ourselves in a fascinating environment, near the lake Tuusula, in which there is a cultural predisposition to the search for harmony between THE HUMAN —urban development and architecture— and, in addition, a clear identity and an intrinsic respect towards NATURE —lake and forests—. These two characteristics mark the guideline of this proposal; however now we want to grant a new condition: to create a symbiosis of greater intensity of the existing one between the HUMAN AND NATURE; we want to balance the architecture and the landscape to the maximum. Several questions arise during this research: Is it possible to imagine an urbanism that does not dissipate the limits of the forest or that even increases it? Is it possible to imagine a neighborhood that is perceived at the same time a forest or, on the contrary, a forest in which a neighborhood is inserted almost without being appreciated? This is an opportunity to investigate new spatialities for living, where the urban condition and the value of the landscape can be merged as a single system. Of course, this perspective approaches theoretical references such as that of the philosopher Jane Bennet, whose work revolves around a series of ontological ideas about the relationship of humans and things, and as “The Third Landscape Manifesto” by Gilles Clément, which tries to register those situations in which nature is capable of recovering, or better said, of reconquering residual or marginal spaces of what we can call the human. Our proposal tries to generate, instead, one step further. That is to say: urban spaces that do not come into conflict with nature but that welcome it, that merge with it and get to beat at the same frequency. “Vibrant Matter” pursues, therefore, to generate a “fourth landscape”.
