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Malator, Future Systems, Druidston
Malator — Future Systems, Druidston

Landscape-embedded
architecture

Structures cut into slopes, or built on the land and covered with earth. The landscape continues over them; the open faces are glazed, oriented and deliberate.

A house set into a slope, planted roofs running down to a glazed face

What makes spaces specialis how daylight arrives

A single glazed elevation set into a hillside, seen from across the valley

Domes, cubes and tubes make the space

A glazed elevation set beneath a planted bank at the edge of a lake

The cover keeps temperatures steadyand controls water runoff

A planted roof carried over a courtyard house, grasses growing in the cover

Landscape and structure become continuous
The building becomes part of nature

A curved planted roof cantilevered over a glazed elevation above water

Habitat crosses without interruption in a biodiverse environment

A stone house cut into a grass slope, its planted roof continuous with the meadow above
A weathering-steel entrance cut into a meadow bank, reached by a mown path
A small timber structure set into a wildflower meadow beneath a planted roof

Less visible Less reason to object

Applications in rural settings usually turn on how the built form is seen.

Embed development into nature and that argument largely falls away.

A glazed face beneath a planted bank at the water's edge, a conventional house on the ridge above
A stone-faced house set into a grass slope, reached by a stepping-stone path

The land already existsIt is the imagination that is missing

We are looking for sites.

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