Since his appearance on earth, man has constantly transformed the environment for his own convenience, at an almost impossible pace. This process has become faster in the past 50 years, especially in areas of civilisation and city planning. When man creates, he usually destroys the natural, forgetting that he and the rest of nature need to co-exist in harmony with each other. The only imperative for living in harmony with nature is "mutual respect" early in their existence humans stayed very close to nature, their intimate understanding relationship led to harmonious or at least, balanced interaction. As time passed they grew in numbers, with that th came in more knowledge which led to better technology. Their attitudes changed, and blinded by feelings of superiority and power they became nature's enemy. Instead of understanding that they themselves were a part of nature they completely disassociated themselves from nature constantly trying to control her. They encroached upon everything natural, the natural surroundings, the ocean, mountains, rainforests, etc. Humans impact on nature is like "Midas' touch", everything he touches becomes dull and lifeless losing every meaning of existence. Nature starts shrinking away, curling up and dying due to mans intervention. A major part of Human history has been about conquering and taming nature in order to survive. There have been wars all along, man trying to conquer man, man trying to conquer nature. In order to create any civilization nature had to be pushed back for buildings, roads, and water projects. Forests have always had to be cleared in order to plant food crops. Mostly everything we do has a parallel in Primate behaviour. But do we need to destroy our own habitat for our survival? And to what extent? What I'm asking is; Is it now part of our genetic programming to keep ďŹ ghting nature even though we have obviously won the battle for survival? It is today, not our necessity but our greed to grow; to deforest and reclaim more land, to build more, to develop, to multiply our empire. We change countryside to cities, forests to industries and all of this is achieved by in some way harming our environment. Man in his greed has exploited nature so much that the balance of nature has been greatly disturbed. Urbanism has encroached and eaten up into the natural surroundings to an extent that what enc is left of nature in the present scenario is merely an "encroachment into the city" "It's about too much development and too much ďŹ re suppression building up fuel over the past 50 years... In some ways this is the great war that will be fought here in the 21st century." This project is neither a recrimination of 'cultural evolution' nor a dark criticism of the errors committed by mankind since architecture and city planning moved 'against nature' it talks about nature's vengeance and how as an architect I would play a small role in helping nature through the same. This could be either by creating a space we can breathe or by carving out a space where nature not only enters the domestic world of a city but dominates it. Since we have now reached a point where we have exhausted our natural resources. and all the destruction and the attacks on nature will be answered to. We have tested nature's patience for too long, and it is time she hits back. And when a force as powerful as nature hits back there is nothing the human species can do. Nature has a way of setting things right. Just the way wounds can be cured naturally, diseases can be created naturally too. If the ecology is forced to change from its main course, then nature can ďŹ nd ways to adjust it. But man, will be on the receiving end of this fury of nature.
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