The Construction Site as Ecological Laboratory: Integrating Nature-Based Solutions into Architectural Practice

The methodological approach blends comparative analysis of emblematic projects with speculative design hypotheses, illustrating how vegetation and natural processes can be integrated into architectural workflows from the earliest stages of site preparation. The discussion foregrounds the architect's agency not only as a form-giver but as an orchestrator of dynamic, adaptive, and processual landscapes capable of anticipating, accompanying, and enhancing the multiple temporalities of urban transformation. The proposed framework demonstrates how the architect’s intervention, by aligning with the rhythms of ecological succession and integrating Nature-based Solutions, can generate measurable environmental benefits and open up new directions for sustainable urban development.