As an Architect I have always been fascinated with how the Natural World is incorporated and reflected in the built environment. We are surrounded by an abundance of unique flora, fauna and natural landscape formations which we are blessed to have the opportunity to interact with and experience on a daily basis. We should be incorporating these natural wonders into our lives and by extension the spaces in which we dwell, to co-exist and be one with nature is to be one with the wider universe.
Societies idea of nature was not always so limited. Today, nature is presented as being predominately the easily observable plants, animals, rocks and minerals that we find here on Earth, this was not always the case. In ancient Egyptian cultures science and spirituality were the same thing, two sides of the same coin. Nature is derived from the word Neter, yet modern societies seem to have disconnected from what Nature actually means. Simply put, Neter (nature) describes all living and non living things as having a consciousness, this is easily observable in animals such as the pets that we easily bond and create relationships with, yet this consciousness extends much further to plants, rocks, objects and elements that are more subtle in their makeup and structure.
Modern societies have created a dichotomy, where science and spirituality are seperate which I believe has disconnected us from not only our surroundings, but from who we truly are. If we can open ourselves up to look at nature as a living and conscious entity, we can once again begin to beneficially incorporate it into our lives both physically and metaphysically utilising lost arts such as geometry, astronomy and more subtle energies such as light and sound.
In 2019 we were engaged by Alexis Cartwright who is the channel and founder of Transference Healing® to architecturally design and build a copper pyramid structure located at the Garden of Eden Sacred site in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. The design and construction of this project incorporated many of the principles described in the paragraphs above.
