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  • Seed
  • Seed
Nicole Schattner
Master of Architecture

As cities become denser, there is an increased pressure on natural systems. Architecture has the potential to act as a catalyst to remediate environmental, social and economic issues associated with density.

By finding opportunities to strategically rehabilitate Abbotsford’s ex-industrial landscape as it changes to a residential area, SEED crosses a number of scales by responding to local, site specific needs of infrastructure and remediation, which impact on natural systems at the territorial scale.

SEED is a distributed network of teaching spaces used by the local school deployed in the under utilised spaces of Abbotsford. The series of small-scale buildings and landscapes share a common program of natural environment based education and public infrastructure, addressing the changing demographic and impact on natural systems near and far. While connected by the education component, each project responds specifically to its physical site, often engaging a range of users that wouldn’t normally associate.