From Ornament to Building Material: Revisiting the Aesthetics and Function of Green Architecture

Since the beginning of twenty-first century, we have been witnessing a persistent presence greenery in architecture, its most extensive application, with diverse ranges technological sophistication, fruition, maintenance, form, and expression. The article focuses on current use vegetation examining expressive, artistic, spatial qualities beyond environmental performances. Accordingly, innovative interpretation is addressed within resurfacing debate over ornament, aesthetic semantic outcome, interaction inhabitants. Attention directed at identifying recent design approaches towards nature artifice, from building interior to adjacent urban space, aim highlighting novel paths articulation systems, opening up multidisciplinary research new concepts symbiosis between natural artificial.