Estructura nativa: conceptos sobre la arquitectura formalizada con plantas y su definición espacial mediante mallas recolectoras de niebla

The interest in preserving the natural environment, as a consequence of the constant growth that our cities have suffered, has gained relevance in the last three decades, developing a design practice aimed at vindicating the presence of green within homes. The difficulty of inhabiting the territory, without negatively affecting it, raises the need to generate a “non-construction”, studying the combination of botanical architecture and concepts such as weaving, which add new perspectives to the design of the habitat. The focus of this research addresses the housing problem through botanical construction, which attempts to replace classic structural systems with living trees that are braided according to predefined architectural rules. These fabrics, in turn, have the capacity to collect fog water by adhering internal layers of plastic meshes, providing resources that can be used by the discipline to find innovative solutions that integrate human needs into the environment in a healthy way.