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My thesis investigates the relationship between urban living, and the natural environment.

Living in a city and living outdoors have always seemed to be contradictory. However both have very strong influences on a person's well-being. Therefore it can be assumed that a symbiotic relationship between the two can only lead to positive opportunities in architecture.

People have always had strong connections to the natural environment. The daily rising and setting of the sun, the changing phases of the moon, and the annual change of seasons. Studies have shown that loosing this connection influences the health and productivity of humans. Another thing that has a direct relationship to productivity is the distance a person is from their work environment, in relationship to time. The commute of a person holds a direct connection to the time they can spend on work and rest. It is because of this that cities grow in a direction that minimizes the amount of time spent on traveling toward the core of the city. For major cities, people began living upwards to maximize amount of people that can live almost adjacent to their work places. Unfortunately with restraints of space and money, including both dense urban living with natural environments were always contradictory to each other. Therefore to benefit from both environments editing needs to be done for both and core values extracted to be able to form a concentrated blending of the two.