MORE-THAN-HUMAN PERSPECTIVES IN ARCHITECTURE Revisiting disciplinary aims and challenges in the current techno-saturated framework

This study explores the intersection of nature and culture in architecture to reflect ecological principles over purely human-centered design. Emerging technologies aid related endeavours with tools such as dynamic simulation, computation, parametric defining, and Artificial Intelligence, to analyse nature and adapt it towards forming innovative ideas. Moving beyond rigid workflows, these tools encourage cross-disciplinary approaches linked with multi-agent models, ecosystems, and structural and material performance to propose new aims and solutions in alignment with an ecocentric philosophy addressing nature’s operations and cycles. Such a shift emphasizes holistic, crossscalar thinking and promotes openness of the design process and results even after a project’s materialisation. It calls for moving beyond professional conventions and integrating crossdisciplinary knowledge of the geo/biological sphere within architecture’s works.