Back to Nature is a project that propose to develop a sustainable way of living together.
It is a 16.000 sm mixed-use housing neighborhood gently set in the landscape of Hjertelia.
The project has the aim of reading the landscape where it stands, finding and designing its characteristics and peculiarity.
It is a simple shape landed in the landscape that reminds on ancient traditional settlement all around the world, a circle that surround an hortus where to live and work jointly, a circle that follow the inclination of the ground becoming a form designed with nature.
The height of the building, as well as the wood structural facade, is simply obtained in analogy with the tall trees that surround the area, as birch and pines so that it will not emerge from vegetation but instead it will be an essential
part of it.
Cycle and pedestrian paths are always clearly separated from the driveways in order to guarantee safety and functionality.
Driveways are based on the existing road network, in order to maintain the existing landscape balance. The only change introduced concerns the moving of a small portion of the road at the border of the site project in order to get all the site available for the new building and dividind the residentail area from the streets.
In the later stages road connections are guaranteed by extending the existing roads linking the future inteventions.
Public transport is strongly encouraged by electric bus and shuttles adding a bus stop directly connected to the building.
The cycle pedestrian viability is favored by the addition of a new bridge and a bike/pedestrian pathway through the forest, with view-point, bird wacthing and meditation pavillions along the way.
