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Student: Courteney Gazdik
Advisor: Scott Shall
Content Experts: Ralph Nelson , Sara Codarin
In modern times, insects are viewed as pests. Due to this resistant relationship, we have established a built environment that pushes insects aside. This has helped to create a steady decline in the insect population, leading to resource shortages, changes in the environment, and the extinction of species.
This decline in insect population is frightful because insects make up 2⁄3 of all known species, and are vital to the health of humans and the planet. Architects are able to make a change because we are the designers of the built environment. By continuing to study insect and human architecture, we can then begin to design a new type of architecture that encourages positive interactions between humans and insects. Creating positive interactions between species will aid in creating a mutualistic relationship; this relationship will then help in the awareness and protection of all species, which will result in the improvement of the health of humans, insects, and the planet.
A framework will be established that creates mutually beneficial spaces that can be integrated to any preexisting structure.This redesign will then be evaluated by a classification system that will place the architecture on a spectrum from the original design to the most mutualistic design possible. This framework will ultimately improve our relationship with insects and provide us with a tool to measure our relationship, which could lead to change. Although any city could have been selected for the comparative study, the first project will be located in Sacramento – a city with an ideal location to investigate this concern. It is an inland city with a growing population of humans; but also located in the state with the highest number of endangered insect species, while also providing the country with most of its fruits, vegetables, and nuts. The health of humans, insects and the planet will improve when an architectural framework is established that will create a mutualistic relationship between humans and insects.
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